Movie (80's-90s) about a troubled teen with a grenade launcher

November 10, 2021 11:44 AM

You guys always help with these. I'm trying to find a movie I saw far to young on TV in the mid 90s about a teen who find military grade weapons and kidnaps his crush. The movie begins with him reading a disturbing apocalyptic story about alien invaders to a classroom. The story is also the name of the movie. I want to say it was 'The Destroyers,' but that hasn't helped. Sound familiar to anyone?
posted by es_de_bah to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

Response by poster: As we've had very little progress, I'll offer one more detail that may jog a memory. I remember that in specific, the short story the main character reads to the class mentions that the aliens 'ate everyone's balls' so they couldn't reproduce. This garnered a response from the glass and got him sent to suspension. I swear this movie exists!
posted by es_de_bah at 9:22 AM on November 11, 2021

Toy Soldiers?
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 11:29 AM on November 11, 2021

One Crazy Summer?
posted by biffa at 2:03 PM on November 11, 2021

Response by poster: I'm not going to pretend that this post doesn't sound like a serial killer describing a weird serial killer mind fluff, but I swear this movie was shown on cable in the 90s during daylight hours.
posted by es_de_bah at 4:33 PM on November 11, 2021

I hadn't posted this yet since it really doesn't fit the details, but it keeps scratching at my brain every time I see the question and no one else has answered it, so just in case: Any chance you're thinking of the novella Rage by Richard Bachman (AKA Stephen King)?

It is very much the same flavor as what you're describing, though the details are off (he had a handgun, not a grenade launcher, and the stories he told were historical or about his own life rather than aliens), and to the best of my knowledge it was never made into a movie.
posted by rhiannonstone at 1:09 PM on November 14, 2021