In the ensuing chaos, a Death Angel was able to continue rampaging the town killing a few inhabitants, just as Lee, Regan, and most of the inhabitants went to a nearby bar to avoid being killed. aat the start of the attack (not long after their meteor landed near Millbrook) one of them attacked a police car of a local officer causing panic in mainstreet, then another attacked and destroyed a station wagon, and another killed a driver of a bus which caused it to almost ram over Evelyn, Marcus, and Beau though they were able to avoid it. In the opening scene, Death Angels are seen slaughtering the inhabitants of Millbrook, a New York town, on the first day they landed on Earth by a meteor. Two more came running to the farm after his death, implying they were killed too. A Death Angel was shown in the finale when their weakness, high-pitched frequency waves, was shown, and killed by Evelyn. Lee's death was at the claws of a Death Angel, albeit it was to protect Regan and Marcus to help Evelyn. A Death Angel was nearing Evelyn in the bathroom when she was about the give birth to her son but was distracted away due to Marcus setting off a firework. They are also seen hunting in the Abbott household when Evelyn's water breaks and she accidentally stabs her foot with a nail in the basement stairs. The Death Angels are responsible for Beau's death at the beginning of the film. Nonetheless, they are so robust that they survived a long interstellar journey on asteroids (possibly in a state of hibernation), so it might take years for them to actually starve to death.Īt some point, the creatures' planet was destroyed for unknown reasons, but due to their durable nature, they survived on asteroid fragments, which eventually arrived on Earth in a meteor shower. It's possible that they cannot eat their prey, because their biology might be incompatible with terrestrial animals. ![]() They don't seem intelligent enough to kill for sadism, rather it seems that they just instinctively lash out at anything that creates noise. ![]() Perhaps most frustratingly, the creatures do not kill for food: the Abbotts' whiteboard includes the prominent note, "Why don't they eat their prey?", and they are never seen eating any of the corpses they leave behind. Besides, invariably when one was killed, another came running to the location of its death. Just how intelligent they are is unclear, as they mostly seem driven by pure instinct, though the Abbotts' whiteboard speculates that they are capable of hunting in packs. If the high-pitched noises got louder, they could get to the point where they temporarily collapsed from the pain.Īs confirmed by Krasinski, the aliens are not sapient, but vicious animals. Their extremely sensitive hearing can be turned into a weakness, as Regan discovered that their ears are so delicate that high-frequency sound waves (generated from a hearing aid) will make them uncontrollably squeal in pain and spasm, accidentally opening up the armor plates on their ears and exposing the vulnerable skin underneath. The delicate ears underneath the armor are vulnerable to conventional weapons, explaining why they only briefly lift their plates if they feel they are safe and tracking an enemy or prey. The entire head is actually composed of multiple sections of armor plates that can be held open if they want to listen more closely for prey - unfolding like a hellish cabbage. With no apparent nose, it is unclear if they possess a sense of smell, or if this is perhaps achieved through sense organs in the mouth. Their head features a large jaw filled with sharp teeth and no eyes. Due to their claws and great strength, they are very adept at climbing on walls. Their body posture vaguely resembles a cross between a gorilla and a flightless bat: all four of their limbs are digitigrade, walking on their knuckles, with arms drastically larger than their legs - resulting in them usually running on all four limbs but capable of rearing up to attack or jump large distances. The creatures are slightly taller than a human, with overall proportions that are lithe and lean. Due to the tradeoffs of these features, however, they are completely blind - and their dense armor and musculature is so heavy that they cannot swim in water. Their armor is so tough it can resist all conventional human weaponry, from small arms to missiles. ![]() This pushed their evolution to develop features such as relying on echolocation instead of sight, possessing impenetrably hard armor, and greater strength in Earth's gravity. ![]() According to John Krasinski, the director of the movies, the creatures originated on a lightless planet in a faraway galaxy, a hell world with much harsher conditions and higher gravity than Earth.
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