Alien Trespass is a 2009 science-fiction comedy film that pays homage to 1950s sci-fi B movies. The story unfolds in 1957 when a malevolent alien, Ghota, escapes from a crashed spaceship in the California desert. Meanwhile, a benevolent alien named Urp inhabits the body of an astronomer and, with the help of a diner waitress, sets out to protect mankind from the looming threat.