Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

kennetzel-1 HUGE SPOILER...It was sweet that they gave the central character, the actor Micky Hayes, the part. He was good considering the rest of the garbage that surrounds him, except Jack Elam...the only highlight of the film. You know by seeing him that he is the boy that made the talk show circuit back in the eighties when they tried bringing attention to his disease. They say he got the role through Make a Wish...which makes me wonder if they wrote the part for him. But, as I said, aside from all this and Jack Elam, the movie was horrible. The acting was way sub par. The audio kept dropping out and the special effects were despicable. Hard to believe the teacher is really flying her bike/airplane when you see that cable hoister her into the air, not to mention the numerous cables hoisting up the spaceship. I know this was before digital painting...but these were so obvious...no doubt hoping your imagination would erase them. Didn't work for me. I am a HUGE sci fi fan, but this is the kind of movie that gives sci fi a bas rap. Don't waste your time...even those horrible B movies out there are eons ahead of this. The Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman looks like Shakespeare compared to this little...gem. Speaking of Gem's, the little alien leaves these baseball sized jewels around when he gets out of his space ship. That's how you call him, so the school teacher takes apart a hurricane lamp that has those little prism teardrops on it, hands them out to the towns people, and there is the whole town holding up these little things hoping to call him...only to get shot by another bad actor. Even Dottie West, God rest her soul, should have stuck to singing, not acting. You can almost see everybody looking at the filming crew waiting for the instructions on what to do next. Like I said....wow.

iamthejinx Although I watched this drivel some 15 years ago, Aurora still etches in my mind as the worst film ever created. As well as being completely depressing to watch - this film bored me to death. I finally had to switch it off when there was an hour long scene of some guy playing draughts with the alien. This film has I'm afraid got no redeeming features whatsoever, and I thus recommend that people only watch it as an educational experience to just how dire a movie can be.A complete thumbs down. 0/10

rufustfirefly I live one town over from Aurora, TX. I read about his movie recently in the local newspaper. It is based on a "true story." Local legend holds that the ship did crash, and the alien was buried near Aurora.It is pretty bad. Jack Elam some how pulls off the really bad dialog, and it is interesting to see an adult Spanky.

Mr Pants I can't find much information about this one. Whoa. This movie features a kid who has progeria, the degenerative aging disease. Even though his body was small and (conveniently) alien-like, Mickey Hays was about 14 when this was made. The only thing that spares this incredibly slipshod film from being total exploitation of this poor kid's illness (in using him as the alien who visits an anachronism-laden Old west town), is the fact that Hays really appears to be enjoying himself. Who knows? Maybe it was his idea to capitalize on his terminal disease and portray an alien (he actually more closely resembles Max Schreck's Nosferatu in miniature). I won't say I didn't enjoy this film to some degree. I can't say that I didn't laugh out loud many times during the "alien encounter" scenes, which were horribly paced and would lead a person unfamiliar with the disease to wonder "What the hell is wrong with that alien?" I even enjoyed Spanky McFarland's cameo as the governor (though I admit we were pretty much fast-forwarding to more alien scenes at this point). It is fascinating both as inept filmmaking as well as exploitive yet harmless artifact. On certain, divergent levels, I enjoyed this film. But it made me feel guilty.It's billed as a Family picture, but parents will be at a loss to explain the black-clad-bad-guy's actions at the end, or the discomforting pace of the whole film. And this may be a spoiler: the film ends on kind of a downer. The moral of the film is, humans are bad news. I can't help thinking this applies not only to the story but to the filmmakers as well.