Alien Terminator story

movie: Alien Terminator (1988) · 1988-08-16

An alcoholic author stumbles on a crashed flying saucer in the jungles of Colombia.

12 total · 6 major · 6 minor

Theme	Level	Motivation
aliens meddling in ancient history	major	It was revealed that an alien spaceship had scooped up a ship full of conquistadors and then crashed into a mountain where it remained until Ted Angelo stumbled on it some 500 years later. In the end it was revealed that the very same race of aliens had been secretly running the governments of Earth ever since.
extraterrestrial being	major	Ted Angelo discovered a crashed flying saucer in the jungles of Colombia and in the end encountered its sinister alien occupants.
flying saucer theory of UFOs	major	Ted Angelo tried to convince everyone that "UFOs were real" (by which he meant that UFOs were actually alien spaceships) but he was having trouble convincing people of his theory.
government secrecy	major	The grand revelation of the film is that the governments of the United States and Soviet Union were actively hiding from their peoples that space aliens were on Earth and pulling all the strings.
romantic love	major	Ted Angelo and Maureen De Havilland fell passionately in love with each other.
subversive life form from outer space	major	Ted Angelo uncovered that every key position on earth as occupied by sinister aliens in human form who were intent on harvesting a rare element that was indispensable to their species.
alcohol abuse	minor	The past his prime author Ted Angelo had turned to the bottle.
android	minor	Ted Angelo and Maureen were stalked by a Terminator-like android that "not even the Japanese" were capable of producing.
creative writing	minor	The writer Ted Angelo quipped that while his first novel was a smashing success, his second one was even worse than his failed marriage. The story concludes with Ted writing an account of his encounter with space aliens.
flying saucer	minor	Ted Angelo discovered a crashed flying saucer in the jungles of Colombia.