Hello and welcome to the latest segment on this blog: What The F$#@ Did I Just Watch?
If only the person reading these knew how tempted I was to put that whole first sentence into capital letters and spam exclamation points. We just watched All the Kind Strangers starring Stacy Keach and, quite frankly, I am speechless.
The movie innocently starts out with a kind gesture from a gentleman to pick up a child and bring him home (don't ever get into the car with strangers). The man reluctantly brought the little boy all the way home through a dense swamp/forest.
"Stay for dinner!" the boy says.
DON'T STAY FOR DINNER.
That's basically it. A bunch of innocent children led by their corrupt "over-protective" older brother. My mental state still hasn't recovered from this movie.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
All The Kind Strangers
WTF, Robby Benson and Stacy Keach star in this 1974 made for TV movie, featuring 7 backwoods kids lookin' for a Ma and Pa to replace their dead ones. Starring a Rottweiler, German Shepherd and a Bloodhound trained to imprison the substitute parents on their backwoods farm somewhere in the Deep South. Amazing, but not as good as the made for TV cannibal movie we recently watched.
3 stars, mostly for the wife beaters, halter tops and overalls the "sweet kids" wear.
3 stars, mostly for the wife beaters, halter tops and overalls the "sweet kids" wear.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Killers From Space
I'm not wholly sure on what my format is going to be for every post, but here's what it should look like.
Killers From Space (1954)
Starring Peter Graves
Synopsis: "Nuclear scientist Doug Martin disappears after his plane crashes while he is investigating condition following an atomic bomb test. When he appears at the military base later, he is taken into custody after he is caught spying..."
The synopsis that is provided on the case is awful and spoils the plot, which I will try not to do in this blog, so I will generally shorten them.
Analysis: I think this movie shows a good representation of the time in your life where no one believes anything you say. Killers from Space does this well. The main character strangely disappears and cannot remember anything. After being declared insane (the flaws of the medical system!) and being given a magical serum he starts spewing out information on aliens (with huge eyes) which must wrong. This movie just plants into my mind how wrong medical procedures are and how countless people have probably been institutionalized for telling stories of alien abduction.
There was a certain point in this movie where I could tell that the writers had been stumped on how to finish the story. This was when a mysterious radioactive element, unknown to humanity, was invented. Of course this element was unstable and highly explosive. And of course this element was only kept in a stable state by a constant current of electricity (provided by the near by power plant).
I thought it was a fairly good movie. It is worth seeing just for the crazy aliens and their hijinks.
Rating: 7/10
Killers From Space (1954)
Starring Peter Graves
Synopsis: "Nuclear scientist Doug Martin disappears after his plane crashes while he is investigating condition following an atomic bomb test. When he appears at the military base later, he is taken into custody after he is caught spying..."
The synopsis that is provided on the case is awful and spoils the plot, which I will try not to do in this blog, so I will generally shorten them.
Analysis: I think this movie shows a good representation of the time in your life where no one believes anything you say. Killers from Space does this well. The main character strangely disappears and cannot remember anything. After being declared insane (the flaws of the medical system!) and being given a magical serum he starts spewing out information on aliens (with huge eyes) which must wrong. This movie just plants into my mind how wrong medical procedures are and how countless people have probably been institutionalized for telling stories of alien abduction.
There was a certain point in this movie where I could tell that the writers had been stumped on how to finish the story. This was when a mysterious radioactive element, unknown to humanity, was invented. Of course this element was unstable and highly explosive. And of course this element was only kept in a stable state by a constant current of electricity (provided by the near by power plant).
I thought it was a fairly good movie. It is worth seeing just for the crazy aliens and their hijinks.
Rating: 7/10
Friday, January 13, 2012
Killers From Space
This afternoon, Theo and I watched "Killers From Space" - 1954 - starring Peter Graves. No popcorn today, tummies around here are still fragile after the stomach flu.
Anyhow, cool movie. Made me wonder when the first alien abduction movie was made or if this was it. I dug the alien eyes, shades of Marty Feldman. The aliens were a nice change from the classic gray guys with big eyes.
Anyhow, cool movie. Made me wonder when the first alien abduction movie was made or if this was it. I dug the alien eyes, shades of Marty Feldman. The aliens were a nice change from the classic gray guys with big eyes.
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