I know people like to take the piss out of the star-shaped aliens from Warning From Space but really, I adore them.

You see, partly the art of a good creature costume in cheap sci-fi for me is that I can look at a still, think “that is so cool” *and* immediately know what film the creature belongs to. You cannot mistake the Pairan for anything in any other film.

I would have first seen these in my much coveted at the time book of sci-fi films as a young ‘un and yes, from the photo in the book alone I knew this was a film I really needed to see because star-shaped aliens are just brilliant. (Even more so if you believe they might command their own legions of demons in hell too. Which I assume they do.)

It took a fair few years before I’d get to watch Warning From Space for real but I can’t say I was even vaguely disappointed by it. The baggy costumes, the actors clearly struggling to get about in the damn things (always a bonus for any creature costume), and the really surreal air they lend to every scene they’re in makes them pretty much perfect in my book.

Sitting there watching it again last night and yep, I still love these baggy aliens a lot. It’s almost saddening when they morph into human form a bit later on.