Something flying really fast approaches the Earth in the form of stoic military jargon type narration. We see stock footage of army and naval training films, also some radar equipment, even jet vapor trails. It's all left to your imagination what the streaking object is, since this film obviously has a budget so small you'd need a microscope to find it. But they almost get away with the cheap effects for a while.
We don't see the object land. But it landed in the Los Angeles area. The narrator said so. After that, some cars race around with antennae on their roofs. Stories of a guy in scuba gear abound, and the authorities are in hot pursuit. The director liked the pursuit sequence. There's one camera shot of the mysterious visitor's shadow fleeing past a wall. The director thought this was so cool, he had the guy run by the same wall two more times.
But the thing has another trick up his sleeve: he's invisible! The movie leaves ET's actions and intents ambiguous, but this seems to be intentional. Learning what little the film wants to tell you is usually accomplished through expository dialogue of the characters, who seem to be able to figure things out in seconds. The sympathetic ending is done awkwardly, but works anyway. Oh, and I loved the eerie music they played when the invisible entity was sneaking around.
Drive-In second-feature stuff all the way, but worth a laugh or two.
We don't see the object land. But it landed in the Los Angeles area. The narrator said so. After that, some cars race around with antennae on their roofs. Stories of a guy in scuba gear abound, and the authorities are in hot pursuit. The director liked the pursuit sequence. There's one camera shot of the mysterious visitor's shadow fleeing past a wall. The director thought this was so cool, he had the guy run by the same wall two more times.
But the thing has another trick up his sleeve: he's invisible! The movie leaves ET's actions and intents ambiguous, but this seems to be intentional. Learning what little the film wants to tell you is usually accomplished through expository dialogue of the characters, who seem to be able to figure things out in seconds. The sympathetic ending is done awkwardly, but works anyway. Oh, and I loved the eerie music they played when the invisible entity was sneaking around.
Drive-In second-feature stuff all the way, but worth a laugh or two.