Zarkorr! the Invader

Zarkorr! The Invader is a 1996 direct-to-video monster movie directed by Michael Deak and Aaron Osborne and starring Franklin A. Vallette, Don Yanan, Peter Looney, Dyer McHenry, Rhys Pugh, Torie Lynch, Stan Chambers, and Elizabeth Anderson. It was produced by Full Moon Entertainment.

plot
The monster Zarkorr bursts out of Mount Aurora in California and begins to rampage. In Newark, New Jersey, a postman named Tommy Ward has his dinner interrupted by Proctor, an alien who takes the form of a six-inch-tall teenage girl. She represents an organization which has chosen him to defend Earth against Zarkorr, which they control, because exactly half of all humans are more equipped to deal with the monster than he is. Turning on the news, he is stunned to see a report on Zarkorr's battle with the Californian National Guard. Proctor offers no explanation for why the aliens are doing this, only that their status as superior lifeforms allows them to do anything they want to Earth. She adds that Zarkorr cannot be defeated by any of humanity's weapons, although he "contains the key to his own destruction." The monster will also instinctively pursue Tommy wherever he goes.

Tommy sneaks into the WRPT news studio to speak with the crptozoologist Dr. Stephanie Martin, who appeared on the program to talk about Zarkorr. He explains himself so poorly that the station calls security on him. He appears to surrender, but grabs one of the men's revolvers while his guard is down and takes Stephanie hostage. As her drags her into a bathroom, two police officers, George and Larry, arrive on the scene and order the employees to leave. Tommy manages to convince George, a UFO conspiracist, that he's telling the truth, and disarms Larry. George drives them away in his squad car.

Meanwhile, Zarkorr continues his trek towards Tommy, unleashing his eye lasers against buildings and military units. Tommy, Stephanie, and George listen on the radio as Air Force bombers attack him with napalm to no avail. After learning that the police are looking for them, they hide the car in an abandoned warehouse. Tommy hands Stephanie his spare revolver in an attempt to gain his trust. She takes them to an eccentric computer hacker named Arthur, who searches government databases for information on Zarkorr. They hit upon the idea of finding the monster's "off switch," prompting Arthur to focus on data from Aurora Mountain just before Zarkorr emerged. He finds that multiple NORAD radar stations briefly experienced a glitch less than two hours beforehand. After further analysis, he concludes that the object which activated the monster is located in the small town of Williston, Arizona. He books them two flights and a rental car, gives them a GPS receiver to help pinpoint the object, and sends them on their way.

Having changed into black suits, Tommy, Stephanie, and George are mistaken for government agents by Williston's sheriff. He leads them to the diner where the object, circular and harder than diamond, landed a few days ago. They store it in the trunk of their car and drive towards the monster. Local police stop them at a roadblock outside of the city Zarkorr is devastating, but Tommy drives the car past it after Stephanie and George step out. When they finally meet face-to-face, Zarkorr fires volley after volley of his eye lasers at Tommy, narrowly missing him. Using the object as a shield, Tommy manages to reflect Zarkorr's lasers back at him, turning him into a ball of energy which flies back into space. He awakens in the hospital to discover he and his friends have been recognized as saviors of the world. During an interview with WRPT, he ponders running for president.