FORGET ALL THOSE UFO WHISTLEBLOWERS and their tantalising stories of alien visitations. It turns out humanity’s first contact with extraterrestrials actually took place three decades ago – on-screen at least. Landing in 1993, Coneheads finally gave Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin’s classic Saturday Night Live comedy sketch the big-screen treatment more than 25 years after the characters first appeared on American TV.
The movie followed Beldar (Aykroyd) and Prymaat (Curtin), a Conehead couple from the distant planet Remulak who accidentally get stranded on Earth. With a while to wait before a rescue vessel can reach them (seven zerls in Remulak years), the pair are forced to infiltrate human culture and assimilate into sleepy suburban America. Despite their obvious visible differences (if anyone
