Plot
This film finds an alien, who is misunderstood, bent on hunting down and devouring people. A school psychologist, Dr. Jennifer Stillman (Nastassja Kinski) investigates the death of a student's mother and finds the boy (Bobby Edner) believes he is the son of the being. His earthling father (Randy Quaid) is also a doctor who has the boy in his care and holds that it is all in the boy's imagination.
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