Extra Terrestrial Visitors

Extra Terrestrial Visitors (Spanish: Los nuevos extraterrestres, lit. The New Extraterrestrials) is a 1983 science fiction film directed by Juan Piquer Simón. The film's original draft was intended as a straightforward horror film about an evil alien on a murderous rampage, but the film's American producers demanded script alterations in order to cash in on the success of Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial by featuring a child and a cute, lovable alien.

A French-Spanish co-production, the film was first released theatrically in France and in Spain (Barcelona) nearly one year later. In the United States, it was sometimes known by the alternate title The Unearthling, and was aired on television bearing this name. The film was largely forgotten until 1991, when it was lampooned by B movie-mocking cult TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000, which used a print by Film Ventures International with the title Pod People.