Come on, this movie was made by a group of teens in Utah. Yes it is bad, of course it would be the movie was poorly made, had to be re-shot due to malfunctions. The movie was bad for two reasons: 1. It is a Sci-fi movie with a bad plot. 2. It was casted with a high school drama club. I'm warning you, it is badly made. Even the person who played the teen alien still says it was a bad movie. This movie is poorly made, has bad effects, but if you are into that, go right ahead and see this movie. The actors did not get paid, the voice of the alien was dubbed over by another person, the lines are simple, and it was shot about thirty years ago. You want to go see it, if not don't bother.

While "Old Man Dobbs" concocts some awful mixed drink ("smooth!") some red-eyed alien briefly appears outside, and then an alien spacecraft flies overhead and causes his drink to bubble away to nothing. "Consarned aeroplanes!" Those Dobbses, always encountering UFOs. Why, I could tell you a thing or two about J.R. "Bob" Dobbs...But anyway, twenty years later, "Old Man Cranston," a well-dressed Santa Claus-looking fellow with a yellow British Rolls Royce lets teenager Carl have the key to his old haunted mill. Carl and his friends will use it for a Halloween "Spook Alley." Meanwhile, a rival group wants to win the Spook Alley contest, so they decide to scare Carl and his friends out of using the mill, since everyone finds it scary in and of itself.Unfortunately, there's an alien called a Varrow living there who would like to kill off every human on Earth one at a time. It can disguise itself as human beings.As SCTV's Count Floyd would say, "Ooh, scary, kids!" This is a pretty lame movie (albeit with a neat location), and another user comment indicating it had to do with a radio contest at least makes a little sense of it all. I wonder what sort of distribution it got prior to making it to video. I saw this on videotape as The Varrow Mission, in an old clamshell case box. No photos on the box at all, usually a good indicator of bad quality (see badmovies.org's "How to Find a Bad Movie" - this one might rate 16 points). The box made this sound more of a horror/sci-fi movie than whatever this is.

If you are the concerned parent of a preteen who wants to see a "scary movie", I wholeheartedly recommend TEENALIEN(aka THE VARROW MISSION)as a perfect choice. This film is devoid of gore, contains no nudity, vulgarity, or profanity, and features nothing at-all objectionable.In any other case, I'd wholeheartedly dissuade you from seeing TEENALIEN(aka THE VARROW MISSION), as it is devoid of gore, contains no nudity, vulgarity, or profanity, and features nothing at-all objectionable.An old mill-house being used by a group of high-schoolers for a Halloween "spook show" is actually the headquarters of an in-progress alien invasion. The transpiring events are strictly formula, presented with very little creativity and obvious disinterest. To put it mildly, this picture so valueless that the very film it's printed on is struggling to wipe itself clean. The next time you see it in the "horror" section of a video shop, please drop it into the "family" section where it belongs. Better yet...drop it into a waste basket where it *really* belongs.2.5/10. Peeuw.

In the late 1950s, the residents of a small Utah township report strange happenings in the vicinity of their town -- some even report seeing alien spaceships, but one is ever able to confirm this -- at least no one living! Now after more than 25 years, the waiting is over. And a new generation is about to experience the horror of -- THE VARROW MISSION.In all of my years watching movies -- and I've seen thousands -- this is the worst, most terrible, sad, pathetic, pitiable, confusing and generally so-screwed-up-it-must-be-a-joke-movie I have ever seen. For context, here are some other bad movies: The Meat Eater, Space Mutiny, and Platoon. (Yes, THAT Platoon.) But this is the worst. I came across this film in the bargain bin at a Blockbuster video store in Toronto --it came free with two rentals. The other bargain box films I got included a seasonal highlight video for the 1990 Houston Rockets and the best of Victor Borge (which was awesome.) But this movie was a terrible mistake. It haunts me to this day -- it is the worst movie ever made, and always will be, with no hyperbole or post-modernist sarcasm. It's not even a movie, as far as I can tell.