The Cape Canaveral Monsters

The Cape Canaveral Monsters

Year: 1960

Runtime: 69 mins

Language: English

Director: Phil Tucker

Science FictionTV Movie

When a couple dies in a car crash, their empty bodies are instantly taken over by alien beings. The extraterrestrials retreat to an underground cave, where they begin a covert campaign to sabotage the United States' space program, endangering the nation's ambitious launch efforts.

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1

Prologue: White circles and their mission

Two mysterious white circles glide across a black screen as a woman's voice states they must possess human bodies to carry out their mission. This eerie setup foreshadows an alien incursion into human hosts.

2

Abduction near Cape Canaveral

A man and a woman leave a beach near Cape Canaveral, Florida. The circles descend, causing a fatal crash, and the hosts are taken over by the aliens.

Cape Canaveral, Florida
3

Alien base: artificial cave laboratory

Nadja retrieves Hauron's severed arm and explains she will sew it back on at their laboratory in the artificial cave that serves as their headquarters. The hosts remain under alien control as the base operation is established.

Artificial cave laboratory
4

Hauron’s recon and arm loss

Hauron reconnoiters Cape Canaveral at night, but MP guard dogs tear off his reattached arm. He still wields a disruptor ray to disable rockets as soon as they launch.

Cape Canaveral, Florida
5

Rocket sabotage puzzling scientists

Rocket scientists at the launch site wonder why their rockets keep exploding, unaware that extraterrestrials are sabotaging them. The failures frustrate the space program and fuel suspicion.

Launch site
6

Double date at the launch site

Tom Wright and Sally Markham, both employed at the launch site, go on a double date with friends Bob and Shirley. Tom notes static on a transistor radio, suggesting an illegal transmitter may be nearby.

Launch site, Cape Canaveral
7

Search for the transmitter continues

The group returns to search for the illegal transmitter but cannot locate it at first. They keep looking, hoping to uncover the source of the sabotage.

Launch site
8

Bob dies, arm grafted, chin swapped

Bob dies during capture as Shirley is abducted; Nadja removes Bob's arm and grafts it onto Hauron. She also replaces Hauron's scarred chin with Bob's, claiming Bob had a handsome chin.

Alien cave
9

Shirley and Bob are sent to the aliens' planet

Shirley and Bob are transmitted to the aliens' planet, despite Bob's death and warnings about sending dead or damaged specimens. The abductors continue to expand their host network.

Alien planet
10

Captive Tom and Sally: a narrow escape

Tom and Sally are captured and held by an electronic device. Tom frees himself by waving his wristwatch's radium dial at the device and then goes to summon help, leaving Sally behind.

Alien cave
11

Rescue arrives and falters against the intruders

Sheriff's deputies, Army personnel and rocket scientists arrive to demand the aliens surrender. Nadja and Hauron incapacitate them and revert to circle form to transmit themselves home.

Alien cave
12

Defensive plan and cave explosion

Tom and Sally's awakeness prompts Sally's father, the head rocket scientist, to devise a plan to block the extraterrestrials' transmission. The humans escape the cave just as a powerful explosion destroys it.

Alien cave
13

Cliffhanger on the road

Sally and the chief deputy drive away in a patrol car, but tires screech and a crash follows, leaving their fate unresolved in a shocking final moment.

Road outside Cape Canaveral

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