I've been seeing trailers for a new cgi-laden alien invasion film called
SkyLine.
It's about aliens hypnotizing humans, then transporting them up to their ships where they ingest the hapless people.
Too bad it's already been done...31 years ago, to be exact!
The final film in the legendary British sci-fi series about an alien-fighting scientist named
Quatermass covered the same themes, on a much lower budget.
The first three entries were tv mini-series performed live, and then remade as feature films with different casts.
The final entry in the quadrilogy, entitled
Quatermass, was a tv mini-series which was then condensed to feature-film length entitled
The Quatermass Conclusion
for it's American release, not remade.
It involves aliens who hypnotize humans then, using light beams, teleport the people to locations where the aliens ingest them.
But then, Americans have been using ideas from this little-known (on this side of the Atlantic) series!
The X-Files tv series
and first film,
Fight the Future
, "borrowed" concepts and plots from all four entries as detailed
HERE.
So, enjoy the film. The FX
does look spectactular! These guys did an amazing job on a VERY low budget!
But remember, the story has already been told!
collectible series had proven to be a major success, so why fight it?
went into production in June, 1966, the producers realized that there was no existing art showing the title character or his sidekick, Kato.
(used on the back cover).
in Danger: Diabolik
(see above)...
, in not one, but two movies, Deadlier than the Male
(above) and Some Girls Do
(below).
series was the OSS 117 series of flix.
, turned into an arthouse and dvd rental hit in the US!
is already out on dvd, but you should catch it in the theatre while you can.
)!
, the classic 1938 Errol Flynn flick
, and several Golden Age comics covers (including Classics Illustrated)!
