LaVerne Light Dr. Mansfield as Dr. Phil Erickson Dr. Whitham as Dr. Brooks Clift Gen. David Gallagher as Gen. David Gallagher. Billy Crane Alan as Alan. Tom Harper Interviewer as Interviewer. Ida Agree Housewife as Housewife. Johnny Baker Rancher as Rancher. Sam Durrance Rancher as Rancher. Emily Bell. More like this. Watch options.
Storyline Edit. Alan Grimes, an electronic communication specialist for Gainsville University, becomes intrigued by accounts of UFOs near the Buford Power Plant after accidentally intercepting a military call to scramble some jets.
Spoiler Alert! But while he learns nothing of the jet scramble, or even if the general is in the know, Allen succeeds in alerting a paranoid military to his interest in top-secret phone calls. So I guess it was a productive meeting! Later he and Vivian stop at a picnic table and review all they know. I mean, what the hell do we know about it? Instead we go to the computer lab of Dr.
Mansfield, who turns out to be that nice lady from the previous scene. See photo. I had to rewind so I could catch what the old lady was talking about!
So Allen and Vivian go to the local lake and have another important conversation. A call to Dr. What data? Freaking out, she drops it and runs off into the woods. Mansfield and Dan show up at the campsite and join Allen in a search party.
Oddly, the explanation comes not from the freaky Vivian or the fixated Allen, but from rational skeptic Dr. Here it is:. What the old woman saw could have been an alien ship that experienced a major power loss during an eclipse of the sun. It fell not from the sun, but from space. And it plunged into the lake, where it has been submerged for all these years. But somehow, through technology that far exceeds our own the inhabitants have managed to remain alive.
And periodically they send out satellite ships to secure power, from say the power plant. Apparently, halfway through his script De Gaetano got so excited by eclipses he forgot all about comets…Sad, really. Mansfield has the answer! Then things get even freakier as Allen pipes up:. But I say it because we must construct some possibility to begin our investigation. For a rational skeptic Dr. Mansfield certainly is bizarre! And though this would seem the perfect time for Allen to dramatically reveal his childhood abduction trauma, all we get is more of this:.
Watching the cast of amateur actors struggle earnestly with this nonsense wrings the heart. Under it! Several minutes of confused non-action pass before the TV screen starts babbling at Allen. And what it says might just blow your mind for the last time! We are beyond the jaws of darkness, where the light springs from the consciousness of your mind and bends upon itself to become the truth.
The old lady who saw the eclipse must have been really, really old! Give us the power to return, and your time will be destroyed. A dream will just as easily make sure the boom is there. Maybe it is time to take "UFO The movie made me aware of this unique property of the medium. No other art form I know have has ever done this to me. I'd be interested to read other comments from viewers of this film, which I can only hope will reassure me that I am not losing my mind.
This was an incredible sleeper that was hyped as some type of spooky, mysterious story regarding a UFO encounter. Instead it was a boring, painfully slow yarn lacking any special effects or visual excitement. The script called for the characters to talk about something in a lab; then go to a wilderness location, sit down and talk about something; then go to another location, sit down and talk about something; then go to another location, sit down and talk some more; then maybe decide to sit down in a forest location and rehash what they just talked about.
Had the dialogue been any good or even slightly stimulating, then perhaps this would have been OK; but this dull script felt as though it had been written in haste or just ad-libbed by the actors in order to get it released quickly to take advantage of the UFO craze of the seventies. By the time of the "climactic" final scene, the audience expected to maybe finally have a glimpse of some spectacular space craft relic or alien body part, but instead all that was presented was one character shouting "for god's sake" numerous times at another who decides to follow some "imaginative call" to go into a lake believed to be a UFO crash site.
The ultimate fates of these two characters are not discussed here so as to avoid "spoiling" this for anyone desperate enough to sit through the whole thing; but suffice it to say, those still awake in the audience by this point yet again were not treated to anything interesting. For a very good reason, this is a film probably never to be found on video. Terrible film, suffered from not just being long, and boring, but it appeared it was some kind of 16mm film, made by college students on a shoestring budget and transferred to 35mm-not an uncommon practice at the time for low-budget films, turned into potboilers for drive-in 2nd features.
I remember it was "hyped" as a docudrama and double billed with The Devil's Triangle, another documentary that was narrated by Vincent Price and was at least,entertaining but both cashed in on,in then, hype over UFOs and Bermuda Triangle lore.
The plot is basically an electronics expert determines that strange signals may be coming from a rural area where he grew up-and a possible UFO crash site- at the bottom of a lake. The ship crashed possibly many years ago and it's occupants-or their psychic energies- have apparently been alive all that time and been attempting to communicate.
An old-timer recalls when he was a boy, a "star falling into the lake". We never really see anything but an attempt is made to create a creepy, "too quiet" lake in many shots. The whole thing reeks of poor film-making-everyone in one shot, talking-lots of glib talking- as if they are reading the script, and extremely poor FX what there are of them.
Interesting opening titles sequence with a strange but catchy electro-smooth "70's sounding" song called "Between The Attic and The Sky" and a montage of UFO photos we have all seen before. Everything is shot at night, or in a perpetual sunset-across-the-lake mode. This film oddly had a huge play in many areas in , and wound up as a prime-time TV syndicated film the next year in many markets. Scaarge 15 September To say this movie is terrible is not only an insult to the word "terrible," it's also not quite accurate.
I mean, don't get me wrong, it is terrible, but it's terrible in its own unique way. You've never seen terrible quite like this, and if you're lucky, you never well. The characters are colorless, the story if I may be so bold slow-moving, the cinematography is murky and the camera work inexplicable. Just as an example, there are extreme close-ups and sudden shock zooms when nothing is happening on screen. The acting is competent, though it's hard to tell, given the script.
The lead guy, who sounds like Kyle McLaughlin, reads his lines without any trouble. The others are just kind of there, except for the woman who plays the professor. She really bites the cake with her awful flat acting, easily outdistancing everyone else in smashing any interest into a thin, watery paste. What really stands out, though, is the dialog. Not since Edward D.
Wood, Jr, has such utter blather been essayed about with such abandon. In fairness to Mr. Wood, at least his dialog had some relevance to the story. Here, there are endless, pointless discussions about everything under the sun, only occasionally straying into relevant territory. Don't we actually just take one more moment from a happy childhood and cloak it in our concept of 'donut'?
The whole film strikes me as a movie made by someone who had never actually seen a movie, but had heard them mentioned casually by other people from time to time. One day, this person comes across a camera abandoned in the woods. Rather than tell a story, he just films his friends saying things. He invites them on a camping holiday and films them saying some more things.
He gets a couple of them jump into the lake, because he'd heard people did those sorts of things in movies. Really, the level of ineptitude on display is astonishing--unbelievable, almost. You would have to work hard to reach these heights or depths and I don't think anyone connected to this worked that hard.
Thus, the incredible ending strikes me not so much as an obvious rip-off of "" but rather an attempt to remake that ending after only being told an incomplete, rambling description by someone who'd seen it while drunk.
There was once a show on a small local network called the all night show which featured four half hour shows. This show also featured a segment called the master plan which featured voices reciting dialogue over pictures and computer images featuring rotoscoping and shadow images. This movie is on the same level with its low budget production featuring similar dialogue and photography.
Nowadays movies like this come in 50 movies on 13 DVD box sets. This could help people have retro drive in movie nights. It tries to be artsy, but falls flat on its face. It tries to be a mini A Space Odyssey, but fails again. It tries to be slow and tedious and tries to go nowhere, which is succeeds in spectacularly. The story is somewhat indecipherable becoming more so at the end and the acting is leaden - particularly the star. The special effects are limited to some lame colors and shapes appearing on a video monitor, a esque ride to the "beyond" ala a planetarium laser light show, one cartoony spaceship at the end.
I can almost always find something to recommend about a movie, particularly a sci-fi movie, but this one just left me sleepy. I'm pleased to say that, as something of a connoisseur of bad films, this one goes straight into my top ten worst I've ever seen. Generally these films appear as one-offs. The crew manage to cobble together a script, borrow some equipment, find a local businessman with deep pockets to give them some cash and they make a movie. I sincerely hope and seriously doubt the others are better.
Later,the same character blows a line but the take was kept. No, wait But the question that will bug me forever is this: Where did they get the power to run the equipment at the lake, and why choose to bring several televisions but Coleman lanterns instead of electric lights?
The dialogue is trying desperately to be deep and meaningful, but the total lack of characterization and story line makes it laugh out loud funny. Some of my favorite lines: "I feel as though you are trying to bind my soul with your technology. No, it was like a big star. It was coming all It was making me all naked". Everyone has a waking star". No, that's actually a desperate plea for help from an abused child. It's a swaying sensation as if I was about to fall in. The idea for the film isn't the worst I've ever seen, but this is one of the two or three most inept attempts at movie-making I've seen.
If you like bad film, or just want to see what happens when a filmmaker leaves out every element necessary for a watchable movie, you should see this. Two stars, because it's too entertainingly bad to call "awful".
An error has occured. Please try again. Create a list ». Worst movies ever Made. Schlock-A-Bye-Baby 3! The insomniac. See all related lists ». Share this page:. The flying saucer phenomenon had been around since but it was during this decade that it took off in a big way. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallee, along with crackpots like Erich Von Daniken and his claims that major archaeological landmarks were created by alien visitors — see the documentary Chariots of the Gods — and a host of other populist books about experiences and phenomena.
Even President Jimmy Carter claimed to have seen one. Certainly, there is much about its treatment that raises an eyebrow watching it after forty years. The phenomena are centred around a dam and power plant project where you keep expecting there to be the unveiling of some type of top secret government project but this never happens. The other oddity is that despite being a film about UFOs, none appear throughout apart from various photographs and slides that are shown to illustrate the discussions.
De Gaetano as he makes a respectable attempt to examine the phenomenon — albeit one that also involves the use of a psychic to track key information — and there are several scientific discussions about it from the academic characters, including even one peculiar aside where Ed Lynch jumps aboard the von Daniken bandwagon and starts speculating about whether the Biblical story of Jonah and the Whale was an alien abduction experience.
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