Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Aedonerre I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS**** Right away you know your in for a rare treat in seeing the opening credits backed up by Mark Richardson crooning the theme song "The Night Caller" as we see this spot of light, or what later looked like a light up beach ball, descending to earth outside of London. It's up to scientists Jack Costain, John Saxon, and fellow astrologists Dr. Morley, Murice Denham, and Ann Barlow, Patricia "Pat" Haines, to find and figure out where this glowing and sub-freezing ball comes from and if its a danger to those of us on earth.As we soon find out the ball has somehow materialized, out of thin air, this six foot five inch alien called Medra, Robert Crewdson, who's on a mission of survival for his almost totally depleted, due to a low birth rate,race on the Jupiter moon of Ganymede. Medra plans to transport young woman back to his home planet to, by breeding with the few males left on it, repopulated the Ganymedean race. Medra does this through advertising in the London girlie magazine "Biini Girl" by offering them modeling jobs.****SPOILERS***** The film "Night Caller from Outer Space" has to be taken with a grain of salt in it really being a strange and far out combination alien from space and Frankie Avalon & Annette Funicello bikini beach ball movie despite the graphic, for 1965, violence in it. This Medra guy, who we see only in shadow until the last few minutes of the film, seems to walk through walls as well as making himself invisible and at the same time invincible to anything that the British military can throw at him. It's only at the end of the movie that the shadowy Medra finally reviles himself, he doesn't look as bad as you would have thought he would, and his secret mission on earth. And just when it looks like it's mission accomplished, with the British military unable to stop him, he just takes off, with the glowing beach ball, back home to Ganymede leaving the some 30 young and well developed women, whom he came to earth for in the first place, behind?

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- Night Caller from Outer Space (Blood Beast from Outer Space), 1965. A strange orb from space lands on Earth in the UK and the Govt takes charge. The orb seems to have special properties that coincides with the disappearance of young women from the area.*Special Stars- John Saxon, Patricia Haines.*Theme- War is dangerous for women and other living things.*Trivia/location/goofs- B & W, British. Made at Shepperton Studios in England.*Emotion- This film was interesting and had such suspenseful dramatic pacing that kept me fully involved in the script's plot. I enjoyed the weaving of the plot with the disappearing women idea. The end of the film is done very well and plausible. It was not preachy or insulting of the viewer's aesthetics. I give this film high makes and would recommend it to be seen, even though the film theme is very common in the film's of this Cold War era.

MARIO GAUCI Low-key but intriguing and generally effective variation on the alien invasion theme (though the script is far inferior to the Quatermass archetype); as a matter of fact, the police procedural tends to be more engaging than the high-falutin' scientific theorizing! Unfortunately, too, some of the dialogue is unintelligible due to the heavy British accents (but, then, the version I watched was accompanied by subtitles in Italian!).The cast features several familiar British faces (Maurice Denham, John Carson, Jack Watson, etc.); still, as with many low-budget horror films of its era, the lead role was given to an American actor: in this case, John Saxon - who's pretty adequate under the circumstances, with a blonde Patricia Haines (whom I recently saw in the awful VIRGIN WITCH [1972]) as his female co-star. Aubrey Morris, however, is memorable as the scurrilous editor of a 'girlie' magazine - which is used as bait for the alien's female victims (who, as is often the case, has descended to Earth because his own planet has reached saturation point). This element gives way to some typically dry British humor (especially the awkward interrogation of one of the missing girl's simple but cantankerous parents)...but Ballard Berkeley's belated introduction as the Commander steering the operations engaged in the alien's capture can't be taken seriously - in view of his regular appearance as the befuddled Major in the classic TV comedy series FAWLTY TOWERS (1975-79), devised by and starring Monty Python's John Cleese!! With the imposing figure of the alien generally shown lurking in the shadows or hidden behind heavy clothing and a mask (shades of the giallo subgenre?), its menace is evoked through the creature's adoption of a mellifluous yet sinister 'human' voice; that said, the make-up effects shown intermittently are surprisingly subtle. Even so, the best thing about the film is certainly Stephen Dade's chiaroscuro photography - utilizing some odd angles, particularly during the alien manhunt, obviously inspired by THE THIRD MAN (1949)! The rather uneventful cautionary finale, then, is reminiscent of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951).

hauntedriver This is a very weird little film crammed with many familiar names e.g. Maurice Denham, Ballard Berkeley, Aubrey Morris. The first two were in the superb NIGHT OF THE DEMON and the latter in THE WICKER MAN. The plot revolves around an alien from the planet (?) Ganymede who travels to earth in a tiny silicone ball which glows and swells in size to release him. The alien then assumes the name of Medra and takes a flat in London, keeping himself well hidden because he is, after all, very tall, possessed of insect-like claws, and a hideously deformed face. (When I say 'hideously', I also mean 'amusingly'). Medra then places adverts on a glossy Loaded / FHM style magazine called 'Bikini Girls', inviting young attractive would-be models to a private photo-shoot in a sleazy Soho sex shop, owned by the sinister and greasy Aubrey Morris. The girls are then hypnotised by him, and he takes their picture, which he sends to them in the post the next morning. Then on the following evening, he calls at their homes, and, mesmerised by the picture and his presence, they go off with him..... to who knows where! Sheer madness of course, but it is handled well, and the scenes involving the girls - including the sets too - bear strong comparison to Michael Powell's bizarre PEEPING TOM which appeared five years earlier. Of course, the army and the country's top scientists join forces to try and hunt down this rogue alien. The conversations about scientific theory are hilarious. One scientist looks at a very basic radar screen at a blip which is approaching another blip she tells us is earth, and then she informs her colleagues that it has suddenly slowed down from 20,000 miles per hour to exactly twenty. Another amusing scene involves Warren 'Alf Garnett' Mitchell. The Police call to ask him and his wife about the mysterious disappearance of their daughter. They ask, have either of them heard of the magazine Bikini Girls? Mitchell instantly retrieves a copy from the cushion under the sofa, and then looks sheepishly at his wife and the Police, realising that he has owned up to being a secret reader. But perhaps this scene possesses greater resonance: perhaps the knowledge that an alien has abducted his daughter leads Mitchell into the prejudices for which Alf Garnett is famous for? A detective leading the investigation informs his superiors that he *might* have stumbled upon a clue. He tells them all 21 girls who have disappeared replied to adverts in Bikini Girl, and that they all disappeared the day after attending photo-shoots. Ballard Berkeley gruffly tells him that it might be worth following up. In another scene, the police are holding a brainstorming session, trying to work out who might be committing these crimes. "There's no pattern to it," one of them laments. "21 girls in three weeks. What does it all mean?" Erm, I may only have O level maths, but doesn't that mean one girl per night, seven girls per week? Anyway, they finally run the alien to ground after he savagely murders a female scientist who allowed herself to be used as bait (quite a disturbing PEEPING TOM style murder, that one). Although the alien has giant insect claws and has only been on Earth a short while, he can drive a human car very well. The pursue him to a disused building where he stands in front of a glowing egg aka spaceship. He removes his costume and shows them that he is fact.....wearing another silver 'David Prowse' suit underneath. But he waves an insect claw at them menacingly, and tells them to come no nearer. "Why are you murdering our Bikini Girl models?' they ask him. (Not literally, something like that.) He then embarks upon a lofty Gort-type speech - 'space is really, really big' and that sort of stuff - before reassuring them that he hasn't killed them, he is just going to take them back to his home planet for some weird, unspecified purpose. Well, this seems good enough for the British army and scientists, so the alien gets into his burning egg and the spaceship shoots off into the sky. Instantly, the screen goes blank and the legend THE END appears. No film credits, no army reaction. It's easily one of the funniest and strangest films I've ever seen, and I'm going to procure a DVD as soon as possible. I thoroughly recommend it to everyone who likes quirky old British films.