Yet another winner from the original Outer Limits, The Zanti Misfits is an oddly plotted tale of the invasion of a secret military installation by creatures in a space ship who resemble bugs with faces and have an aggressive attitude. There's a minimum of scientific gobbledygook in the show, as it comes close to being a straight horror after a certain point, and the desolate desert setting (in a town called Morgue!) suggests the science fiction pictures of Jack Arnold from a few years earlier.
Into this setting drive criminal on the lam Bruce Dern and his upper class girlfriend, Olive Deering. Their encounter of the out of space misfits with the terrestrial ones is spooky, as everyone behaves badly, however the Zantis behave more badly. As things turn out the space ship is a penal colony sent to earth by the otherwise peaceful planet of Zanti, who are too kind to kill their own, so they send them to us, knowing that we earthlings are up to the job! The acting in this one is mediocre aside from Miss Deering, who portrays her neurotic Tennessee Williams-like character with relish.
Into this setting drive criminal on the lam Bruce Dern and his upper class girlfriend, Olive Deering. Their encounter of the out of space misfits with the terrestrial ones is spooky, as everyone behaves badly, however the Zantis behave more badly. As things turn out the space ship is a penal colony sent to earth by the otherwise peaceful planet of Zanti, who are too kind to kill their own, so they send them to us, knowing that we earthlings are up to the job! The acting in this one is mediocre aside from Miss Deering, who portrays her neurotic Tennessee Williams-like character with relish.