[Oatka]

There is an absolute dog of a 1960s Sci-Fi movie called "The Creeping Terror" that was ahead of its time. (The creature consisted of a bunch of guys crouched beneath an undulating carpet.)

This creature inhaled slow-moving earth-people at a pretty good rate, but it was only at the end, when the hero stood amid WWII surplus equipment in the "spaceship", that the voice-over revealed that the creature was dissolving the humans in order to analyze their components and was sending the info back to Mars.

Life imitates art - sometime it just takes a while.

[BenLurkin]

the creature was dissolving the humans in order to analyze their components and was sending the info back to Mars.

it was all just a misunderstanding.