This is a movie so cliché that it re-defines the term cliché. It's so absolutely of its time that it takes every single chance to embrace every single convention of the time period, and it's both comical and ridiculous. There's your nuclear family, your rascal of a son, and your MTV fiend of a daughter who is dressed like a technicolor Madonna throughout the portion of the story. "Terrorvision" pretends to say something about our unquenchable thirst for television and how it rots our brain, but in reality it's just a really stupid movie that has nothing to do but be very silly and wrap the time period around itself to make up for poor characterization. In a plot that became surprisingly prevalent in the eighties and nineties, a normal family of yuppies obsessed with television buy a new system that will grant them any channel they want.

If the signal is strong enough to transfer the alien monster in to Earth, why not warn the humans by going to Earth through the TV instead of merely broadcasting the warning over and over? How did the aliens know that the signal landed on Earth? How did the aliens find the time to learn English? Are they aware English is not the only language on the planet? How does the alien monster know to feed on humans? How does it know it hungers for humans? "Terrorvision" is played too much with a tongue in cheek to take too seriously, but it tends to be a film that will draw more eye rolls than laughs or chuckles. A film filled with so many puns and double entendres simply has to be taken at face value. Plus you can't hate on anything with eighties cutey pie Diane Franklin starring in it. All in all, "Terrorvision" is very much an eighties film, so anyone looking for a time warp should look for this often mind-boggling horror comedy.