Bug-eyed monster

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Bug-eyed monster is the expression used to describe one of the early, and now essentially hoary, conventions of the science fiction genre. Extraterrestrials in science fiction of the 1930s were often described (or pictured on covers of pulp magazines) as grotesque creatures with huge, oversized eyes and a lust for blood and destruction. The term is now often abbreviated to BEM.

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