Bizarro alien encounter account courtesy of The Outer Limits. Filmed in glorious black and white! A married couple go to look up some remote property so they can potentially have a getaway spot from the city. They soon find themselves on a desolate dirt road with a disabled car and an eerily silent environment. Something feels not right according to the wife. After injuring her ankle, the couple’s space is encroached on by “sentient” tumbleweeds. Some force or power is propelling the weeds to antagonize and attack the couple. The couple thinks they find a reprieve from their difficult circumstances when a local farmer comes to their rescue but he too is affected by the unseen power. Soon bullfrogs and boulders are assailing the house and the couple. We find out through the old farmer’s diary that an object was spotted hurtling through the skies and landed close to his homestead. We never see what the alien presence looks like but it appears their effort to make contact with Earthlings has been a failure.
A creepy episode from The Outer Limits. The use of very weird special effects of smarming, possessed critters and plant forms are startling at times.
Definitely worth a viewing. The original Outer Limits’ content could definitely jar your nerves!
I have given a minute or two of thought to what I would enjoy most viewing on Halloween. I would most definitely need to take the day off of work because this lineup would probably consume a good 10 hours. Sacrifices must be made! Granted this is the first of what may be a series of some of my most adored movies piled together in one marathon viewing. These movies are what came off the top of my head at the time and can definitely be mixed and matched and replaced with other selections. I think that makes sense.
- 5 Million Years To Earth – 1967 – A Hammer Films science fiction entry that postulates that some long ago Martians visited our remote ancestors and planted the seeds of intelligence in our shaggy, far removed, ancient ape-like relatives. Is the recently uncovered spaceship located in the London underground still harboring a Martian presence?
- The Mummy – 1959 – This is a great one to curl up with your favorite snack and beverage and soak up the suspense. Very entertaining and satisfying mummy on the loose tale. Christopher Lee is mainly silent and heavily bandaged as the title character. Peter Cushing is out to stop The Mummy’s diabolical rampage.
- The Fearless Vampire Killers – 1967 – Roman Polanski directed and co-starred in this hugely atmospheric comedy/horror piece about a couple of bumbling monster hunters who try to rescue a damsel who is fortified in a castle full of undead vampires. Great sets!
- Horror Express – 1972 – Another Cushing/Lee vehicle set aboard a trans-Siberian train that transports an ages old ape man found frozen in ice. The recently unearthed specimen seems to not be fully dead and can swap human hosts! A true hoot.
- Invasion – 1966 – A hospital is literally held hostage as an alien presence temporarily makes a stop on Earth and has to recover its lost property before it can again go back to outer space. It’s bad enough being in a hospital, as it is!
Like I said, I will make another list of five more films that it would be Heaven to just spend Halloween day watching back to back. Maybe I’ll defer it until Thanksgiving or Christmas. I’ve got time off then. Check some of these films out and enjoy!
A varied collection of unusual movie and music video clips.
