Billy Corgan made a short movie with his friends in the early 1980s,
titled "Alien 1/2". The premise was basically a semi-sequel to Ridley
Scott's "Alien", before James Cameron's "Aliens" was released in 1986.
Corgan and his friends play astronauts who travel to a distant planet,
only to be attacked by an alien (it's actually a plush Tazmanian devil
doll). Corgan and his comrades use such tools as a pink hair dryer to
combat the beast, which flies above their heads, thanks to some fishing
line. Action sequences include a spaceship landing on the planet's
surface, which was achieved by a thin piece of paper, folded into a
tirangular shape (for the spaceship), and what appears to be a flat
picture of a red planet (most likely Mars). Corgan utters the dramatic
line, "And nowwwww, the end is near!". Bits of this movie were
broadcasted on VH1's "Before They Were Rock Stars".