The Day Japan Caught Fire, flooded and trembled, then found hope and salvation through their extraterrestrial close encounter.
The WTF-cyclop-starfish aliens are truly an artistic statement & achievement (Taro Okamoto) and perhaps worthy of the 5 stars just on their own for existing!
The twisty third act makes up in an apocalyptic red atmosphere and its tense build up finale, before the eastern sun rises up again.

I did blink, and in one minute Asmara Abigail was gone!

Barebones and lo-fi U.S.-American anxiety horror, Wes Craven's debut soars inconsistently in its nihil-lewdness and its resistance to entertain, almost makes for exploitive anti-cinema, altough a surprising switch in tone in the final act as a revenge tale, shows firmly who rises above as the righteously family unit, a model that Craven doesnt necessarily seem to champion, one that he's simply showing us how its already broken as the 70's were just coming on.