Hundreds of years ago two alien stones crash landed on Earth and now want to get back together.
This is the final film by Harry Essex, writer of It Came from Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and… um… Octaman. Based on the short story The Dune Roller by Julian May, it’s a part of that achingly small subgenre of Monster Movies dealing with a Mama Monster trying to fetch her kids. Or at least that’s what our heroes guess.
In any case, it has one of the neater aliens, a giant rolling ball of fire. On one or two occasions it works quite well.
The film itself wants to be a throwback to the Sci Fi flicks of yore, like the aforementioned It Came From Outer Space and this film’s much better cousin, The Monolith Monsters. It comes close to hitting that mark.
Unfortunately, like Octaman, it’s amateur hour for the blissfully short run time. The rare time the F/X work get run into the ground, the narrative is choppy and near incoherent in places. The lead actress can’t scream worth a damn. And at the very end a giant ball of flame manages to sneak up on two people.
No foolin’. I shouted at the screen when it happened, and I don’t often do that.
Except through places in Absurd, but only because that kid was
Just.
So.
Annoying.
It’s better than Octaman, but do you know what? The 30 second video I made in a parking lot making driving noise behind a steering wheel is better than Octaman.
Still, I might watch this flick again.
Maybe.
