UFO: Target Earth (1974)
Director: Michael A. DeGaetano
Writer: Michael A. DeGaetano
Starring: Nick Plakias, Cynthia Cline, LaVerne Light, Tom Arcuragi, Phil Erickson,
"Curiously, what the hell do we know about electricity?'
UFO hottie
I grew up watching In Search of ... with my parents as a kid. That's most likely were I developed my interest in paranormal and UFO phenomenon. So when a film about UFO's, especially one made in the 70's you can count me in. So when I found the Nightmare Worlds - 50 Movie Pack DVD from Mill Creek Entertainment, which includes a plethora of UFO related movies. In particular the title UFO: Target Earth jumped out at me. I was hoping it was one of those groovy 70's pseudoscientific "documentaries" that used to play on Saturday afternoon TV back in the early 80's. Well, it wasn't one of those. What it was well...Look out!
So there's this university communications researcher/Kyle MacLachlan enthusiast Alan Grimes (Plakias) who is sitting in his office on the night of a big thunderstorm. He picks up the phone to make a call and accidentally overhears two military types authorizing a scramble of jets to investigate strange lights in the sky near a lake. Later he stares out the window and has a troubling flashbacks to his childhood. So he decides to do some snooping into phenomenon near the lake. The next day he meets with the college's resident astronomer. Alan inquires about the possibility of flying saucers. They talk for what seems like hours about the possibility of UFO's and alien life. Afterwards I woke up and Alan was visiting a mysterious psychic woman named Vivian. She gets all weird and says something about a local reservoir and feeling an alien presence.
Psycho Viv
Get used to this
Well there was a part of me that dug the weird anything goes 70's charm of this film. It started promising enough with mocumentary footage of people talking about their UFO experiences. And then a Pink Floyd like song called "Between The Attic and The Sky" with photos of UFO inserted into the opening credits. Then the movie proper starts an we get a strange voice over telling us that a young man (Alan) trying to make a phone call will have his life changed forever. Things pick up again when he goes to see psychic Vivian. But in the middle of their conversation the screen fades to black. It does that a few times, trying to be all dramatic and crap. But it turns out more comical then anything else.
Alan: I've heard that you feel extra-terrestrial presences. Beings around us.
Vivian: Beings? - That word is too - dimensional. Energy. Yes. I feel that. I feel as if I might somehow…
Alan: Communicate with them?
Vivian: No – with "it.” Yes, I would like that. - Why do I feel so aware now?
Alan: Listen, I have to make an appointment. Do you have some time tomorrow?
Vivan: I don't know.
Fade to black.
WTF???!!!
Looking good Alan
Behold...
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