1977 Directed by Harry Thomason
A glowing meteor falls into a secluded pond into which Mafia hitmen have dumped the body of one of their victims. Students from the local college use the pond for a swimming hole. Then the fun begins.
Roger Manning Rita Wilson Wink Roberts Delight De Bruine Robert Ginnaven Lyle Armstrong George Gobel Ed Lover Joe Barone Conrad Rothmann Lou Hoffman Bill Elfstrom Bill Eubanks LeRoy Slaughter George Stewart Diane Yanniger Dick Curtis Bill Boren J. W. Best Paul Clark Glen Arnold Paula Means Dinah McKinnie Betty Elleins Linda Howerton Shannon McKinnis Monica Thaxton Elaina Henley Jim Bailey Show All…
Le jour où il arriva sur la terre, El extraño caso de Lou Jacobi, 天外来客
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Boy did I love this one! Fave flick of the 2021 Exhumed Horrorthon! I was def worried when I saw we would be viewing a "satire/homage to 50's sci-fi/horror"...usually the tone is off for me on these. But man, they play it straight and just tickled me pink!
The score is one for the ages. Super repetitive, but also dang catchy...and the song that plays during the finale sounded strangely like Sonic Youth's "Burning Spear"!
There's a scene where a professor is asked about a meteor by the cops. And ANY OTHER MOVIE OR WORK OF FICTION woulda just had the professor say it was a rock falling from space or whatever. But not here! The professor gives, what is…
Horror-thon Movie #10: "Rarely seen satire of/homage to 1950's-era sci-fi/horror movies"
One of the more unexpected surprises of the Horrorthon for me was this charmingly eccentric regional oddity concerning the havoc wreaked on Little Rock by a dead gangster's revived (by a meteorite!) corpse and the spirited college kids who stumble upon his wrath. Undeniably crude and campy, but often very funny and just plain weird, replete with quirky touches (oboe solos on the John Cage-like score), Salute Your Shorts-level comedy (”I think I just wet my pants.”), and endearingly purposeless filmmaking. Mostly a stakeless venture punctuated by hangouts and occasions to drop trou, but, boy, you have not lived until you’ve heard national treasure George Gobel describe meteorites in an extended two-minute monologue to the police. Made me hungry for waffles.
I think my friends and I were the only people in the theater who snickered and chortled from start to finish.
I think I laughed until I cried at one point. Probably would have hated it were I not delirious and in exactly the right circumstances to appreciate the extremely dumb scientific talk and weird humor.
There's a scene where a police detective is breaking down what kind of life form they're dealing with, and he very slowly writes "Geophysical Gaseous Goon" on a blackboard and then advises his subordinate they shorten it to GeGaGoo. I don't think we hear that word ever again in the movie. Amazing.
Well, that was quite bad. I can’t really say a single good thing about this poorly acted piece of ineptness apart from maybe that the skullmask is pretty cute and would have been great in Burial ground.
More accurate title: the couple of weeks after it came to earth.
Southern regional drive in horror in the Charles B. Pierce vein. An Italian gangster gets whacked (I guess from the Little Rock chapter of the Colombo crime family) and his body is disposed of in a lake where a meteorite re-animates the corpse. Starring a couple of Ron Howard impersonators, Chet Hanks’ mom, a guy in a spraypainted halloween mask, and somebody’s great uncle. Very bizarre and very funny, though you don’t always know if it’s on purpose.
This was the perfect choice for the “I’m starting to lose my mind” time slot
A really bad but fun take on movies like Invasion Of The Saucer People. It surprised me at how watchable it was. For 1977 they did a good job emulating the 50's, and the blonde girl was super cute. This was another find from YouTube.
SAW IT AS PART OF AFS SAVAGE GOLD SERIES
This is a film made in Arkansas by the future creator of Designing Woman. Its a film that pays homage to 50s sci fi movies. The story also has similiraties with the origin of Solomon Grundy a gangster is murdered and his body is dumped into a swamp. Years later a meteorite that crashes into the lake and brings him back as a zombie that is attracted to the radiation of the meteorite.
One of my favorite moments is when a professor who is clearly not an actor, explains a meteor. I also the lead actor that gives amazing goofy scare faces, he goes into full shaggy mode when the undead gangster shows up.
Would love another remake of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" if it could star the professor from this film.
Definitely laughed a few times but the incredibly rough pink print and the very late hour this started at in the festival meant I didn't have much patience for this one, even though, as I said, I thought some of the jokes were really good!
This was billed as a "satire/homage of campy 50s sci-fi", but the film is so painfully unfunny it is honestly impossible to tell if this is satire or played straight. So little happens that I fell asleep for over 20 minutes and picked it up again without issue when I woke up. Pretty bottom of the barrel stuff.
