crystal as a transport? The beginning of the movie shows an alien family running through tunnels being pursued by planetary invaders, their guardians are jet black automatons with wrist mounted weapons who don't seem to be much use against the invaders. The family runs into a room and activates what appears to be a transport in the shape of a small crystal. One of the family members is hit from behind just as the youngest alien triggers the escape transport.
One interesting aspect of the movie, at one point when an enemy tracker finds them on earth and kills the guardian, it uses the guardians own wrist weapon to disintegrate it. In the end a human detective manages to kill the alien and the family flees earth in the same crystal transport believing their enemy is systematically hunting down any survivors of the planetary massacre.
I remember seeing it when I was a kid sometime during the 80's and believe it may have actually been filmed during that time frame.
One interesting aspect of the movie, at one point when an enemy tracker finds them on earth and kills the guardian, it uses the guardians own wrist weapon to disintegrate it. In the end a human detective manages to kill the alien and the family flees earth in the same crystal transport believing their enemy is systematically hunting down any survivors of the planetary massacre.
I remember seeing it when I was a kid sometime during the 80's and believe it may have actually been filmed during that time frame.