from: the sleazy sex-snuff apocalypse of the Balkans and Swedish cinema’s trailblazing sexual openness to the ‘kicker’ phone booth vandalism of mid 1980s Stockholm; 21st wave 70s feminism via German DEFA science fiction and the 1976 TV show, Star Maidens; Bob Hope meets Thriller: They Call Her One-Eye; Let the Right One In vs. Twilight; Thor in the Gardens of Sebastain Venable, and of course some Nordic alien theory.

Can a filmmaker spend most of his or her artistic life recycling other people’s ideas and still be a true auteur?   Sure. Why not? Any idea, theme, style, or attitude if repeated frequently or obsessively enough can constitute an artistic signature – something that immediately identifies a particular movie as un film de [insert ... read more »

Even within the notoriously cheese-ridden genre of science fiction, few films can rival the alien visitation picture in terms of how much suspicion they arouse. Rare is the film that deals intelligently, meaningfully, and creatively with man’s first contact with extra-terrestrial life, and nearly every film that tackles the subject winds up as either an ... read more »

Between this heavy stuff floating around about NASA guy Edgar Mitchell and now today, Clark C. McClelland. (No link, because of weird interference, but google his name and take your chances) I’ve got aliens on the brain! As Bela Lugosi once put it in GLEN OR GLENDA: “Beware… take… care.” Why is this all coming ... read more »

STOP THE PRESSES! The Invasion sends out (gasp) mixed messages! Well, most Hollywood films send out mixed messages, don’t they? Mixed messages are far more the Hollywood rule than the exception. It’s a result of the standard commercial practice of trying to please as many demographics as possible. The Invasion is credited to director Oliver ... read more »