It's an invasion of the most personal and terrifying kind. When a meteorite crash lands onto a Boston college campus and an alien beast is released, only one man understands its mission to mate. From the depths of an all girls college, the grotesque monster stalks his prey in a cat-and-mouse chase until the final conflict where only one species can survive.

Two children of an American millionaire are sent to "Ireland" (quite cleaerly not filmed on location - despite the clever attempt to put a kildare numberplate on an american limousine) to stay with their new step-mother...