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Are you interested in things that are unearthly and unnatural?

What about UFO’s? Yes?

Bingo! You’re in luck. The threads below are right up your alley . . . a very dark, dead-end alley which might hold terrible dangers!

Read the these posts at you own risk.
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The UFO Incident (1975 TV movie)

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Fascinating depiction of a documented occurrence concerning a married couple who, under hypnosis, related an alledged "close encounter of the third kind".

During the incident the couple claimed to have been taken aboard a spacecraft where they were given a detailed physical examination, parts of which were unpleasant and traumatic. Their seperate descriptions of the incident are similar to an impressive degree, and many UFO experts attribute a high degree of credibility to the report.

One of the most interesting things about the incident is that the couple claims to possess very little conscious memory of what happened to them. Only under hypnosis are they able to recall the events.

The couple first sought psychiatic treatment because they were disturbed by a gap in their memory of a long automobile trip. According to their hypnosis-induced account, the "lost" time during the trip was spent during their alien encounter. They also suffered terrible nightmares as a result of the experience.

James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons are excellent in the starring rolls as the troubled and confused couple. The makeup for the small hairless humanoid aliens employs a clever trick to create over-sized, realistic eyes. Glass lenses were built into the alien masks, magnifying the actors' eyes. The effect is both strange and convincing

Directed by Richard A. Colla. ____________________________________________________________________

The Unearthly (1957)



This is certainly one of the most eye-catching posters ever created (that gal in the yellow dress could start riots in that outfit), but the title is a little misleading, because there's no unearthly extraterrestrial in this one. But one look at the cast and you'll know exactly what to expect.

John Carradine is a mad scientist (ah-ha), Tor Johnson is his assistant (ah-ha), and Allison Hayes ("Attack of the 50-Foot Women") is the heroine (ah-haaa).

Carradine develops a youth serum from a previously unknown gland (whatever that means). In the interest of science he kidnaps people for guinea pigs and does terrible things to them in his Frankenstein-like lab (complete with electrical bolts flying through the air for questionable reasons).

Miss Hayes becomes one of his intended victims. Myron Healey is a police officer who arrives on the scene, posing as an escaped convict. He falls in love with Allison and rescues her from Carradine, with assistance from Tor, who mutinies against the mad doctor.

If all this sounds like quirky fun, you're right, it is -- if you're in the right mood for it. Directed by Brooke L. Peters.

This movie was originally co-billed with "Beginning of the End" for nights at the drive-in when all the cars looked empty . . . except for all those feet sticking up. ____________________________________________________________________

Unnatural (1952 West Germany)

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* The poster is very appealing. I'd like to see other works of art by the person who created it.

Also released as "Alraune".

Obscure West German film whose basic premise implies that if a human is conceived by artificial insemination they would have no soul (!).

Erich von Stroheim plays the scientist who conducts an experiment in artificial insemination. Hildegarde Neff is the "unnatural" woman he creates. The concept seems illogical unless you accept the film's premise that the soul is "created" by the two mating partners at the same instant the egg is fertilized.

Directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt.

Regardless of how one feels about the concept of souls, (whether they exist, how they're created, etc.), it's actually not that hard to believe that some people have souls and others do not.

Religious views aside (if that's possible, given the subject matter) I sometimes wonder if the truly evil people in this world differ from the more humane folks for just this reason.

After all, if souls do exist, they form a kind of symbiosis with the physical body. Religions claim that the body dies, but the soul keeps going and going like that unstoppable bionic Lepus.

If souls do exist and we're just a teeny bit wrong about who made them (God), along with the idea that everybody has one (like a guarantee from the manufacturer), then maybe some folks do have souls and some folks don't.

It would certainly explain a lot about the world we live in, eh?
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)