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“Cry of Silence” – The Outer Limits (1964)

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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!

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“Alien Factor” (1978) – Look On The Bright Side

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A very low budgeted entry here, reportedly costing $3,500.00 back in the early 1970’s, this is an ambitious if very flawed work but enough about that.

There are three aliens on display terrorizing the countryside and a lot of interesting special effects work including stop motion animated creatures and pulsing prisms of color that are kind of cool.

Another gnarly attraction is the appearance of a rock power trio named “Atlantis” playing a tune in a bar. An awesome moment!

I also am a fan of the grating electronic soundtrack for this flick. Check it out. You can get a copy on green vinyl through ebay. I’m there!

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“Fire In The Sky” (1993) – Whodunit/Alien Abduction Yarn

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This may be one of those creepy tales that is best not to watch alone in the dark. Was that movement in the darkened room? What was that creak on the front porch I thought I heard just now? LOL! You know what I mean.

Travis Walton is a logger who is out at night with his friends and co-workers when they encounter a brilliant light in the sky. The group heads toward a better vantage point to investigate. Travis is a little too exuberant with his curiosity and jumps off the truck and runs to a spot directly under the uncomfortably close object. Walton is hit with a light beam issuing forth from the object and levitated skyward and then disappears! The credibility of the bystanders is then put under severe scrutiny by the legal authorities to determine if any foul play was involved in Walton’s disappearance. Foot searches are conducted, witnesses are questioned and administered lie detector tests, doubt is floated but the whereabouts of Travis are unknown. For all intents and purposes, it seems he was abducted by an alien intelligence!

An unsettling combination of a police procedural and a brief, nightmarish recollection of being bullied, prodded and injected with alien equipment in a grotesque abduction sequence.

Nice performances by D.B. Sweeney as Walton, Robert Patrick, Craig Shaeffer and perineal Old Pro James Garner add a lot of dramatic weight to the proceedings.

Walton insists to this day that he is telling the truth about what happened to him and The Aliens involved. It makes you wonder.

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“UFO’s – It Has Begun” (1974) – The question is: Will there ever be an answer?

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An engaging 1970’s era documentary that examines reports of strange flying objects from ancient times up until the present which was 1974 when this documentary was made. Cool recreations of eyewitness accounts are interspersed with actual pictures and films taken by pilots, military personnel, NASA astronauts and civilians alike.

The whole shebang is hosted by the great Rod Serling, the creator of “The Twilight Zone” and MC of “The Night Gallery”. It appears as though his recorded segments were filmed among the remains of his “Night Gallery” set: spotlight on Rod, and various illustrative props given a bit of highlight but everything else draped in black. Cool, economic staging technique! Throw in some guest narration by Burgess Meredith, Jose Ferrer and Jacques Vallee, and you’ve got a very interesting tapestry of UFO reports.

Yet, all these years later, the lingering questions remain: What are these unusual objects which behave so abstractly and randomly and do the Powers That Be have a grasp of what they can be or how we are going to deal with them? Of course not. Expect to be in the dark and helpless for another 1000 years.

I loved this show. Give it a shot!

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The Atomic Submarine (1959) – What’s Under The Ice Is Not Nice

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A black and white science fiction film from 1959 that asks the question: What is causing the disappearance of so many submarines in an area near the North Pole? A meeting of military experts convenes to try and come up with a plan to fins what is happening in the region. The nuclear submarine, “Tigershark” is dispatched to the area to investigate further. Be prepared for some crude but cool special effects miniatures work and a reveal of a USO, an unidentified submerged object, that is in fact a flying saucer. The military finds a way to temporarily subdue the alien vessel and board it! Things get a little farfetched at this point but, hey, this is speculative cinema! Anything goes. Some good face melting scenes ensue and a punctured giant eye. Will the Earth survive? Our resourceful military personnel will personally see to it! Very enjoyable viewing diversion. Worth a look.

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Rusty West’s “A Collection of Strange Wilderness Stories – January 2019”

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Rusty West’s You Tube videos and books talking about missing people, weird occurrences and Bigfoot have become some of my favorites.  I just like his writing style and narration.  I think it is very direct and entertaining.  But also very spooky!  Case in point, in this collection of tales, is the tale of the raided chicken coop.  That one gives me the chills.  Check out Rusty.

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OVERLORDS OF THE UFO – 1976 – BOSS!

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Until Ken Burns comes around to create the definitive UFO documentary, whet your appetite for extraterrestrial visitation speculation with this 1970’s compendium of still photos, film footage and witness interviews. A lot of zooming and panning across still images of alien abductions and weird encounters taking place are in full representation in this film.  Very serious narration bolsters the claims of pilots, military personnel and civilians that they have been in the presence of other worldly beings and craft.  Nice, electronic music flourishes, combined with canned orchestral passages provide the musical bed for this piece.  It all has a very ’70’s feel which can be attractive or repulsive according to your tastes.  For a historical refresher course on the state of UFO research up until the 1970’s, this one is worth checking out.  But be warned that the film’s mellow pace may lull you to sleep as well.

 

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KOLCHAK – THE NIGHT STALKER – “THEY HAVE BEEN, THEY ARE, THEY WILL BE…”

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This was an episode from Kolchak – The Night Stalker TV series.  This series was spun off after the popularity of the Kolchak TV movies, “The Night Stalker” and “The Night Strangler”.  Unfortunately, the series was only to last one season.  Series star Darren McGavin was involved with the production of the show and after about 5 years of association with the Carl Kolchak role, I think he had had enough and “buried” the burden of Kolchak.  Check out the excellent DVD release of all the TV episodes bundled together.

“They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be…” deals with our friends (?), the aliens.  Kolchak investigates the strange deaths of zoo animals and a mysterious black ooze that is left behind after the forceful attacks.  The ooze also crops up on residential home lawns.  There are also thefts and scary occurrences where the culprit responsible cannot be seen.  How do all these elements relate to each other and who is behind it all?  Nice, atmospheric scenes inside a planetarium and Kolchak’s repeatedly interrupted attempts to attend/ listen to a Chicago Cubs baseball playoff game are among the episode’s many charms.

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NASA ALIEN ANOMALIES ON FILM

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Unidentified space junk floating by the space shuttle, the Russian space station Mir, Skylab, Apollo spacecraft and transiting the Moon’s surface.  Who’s to say what these films truly reveal?  Judging by the abundance of activity displayed, space is one crowded place.