TABLOID WEEK: Mysteries from Beyond Planet Earth (1975)
George Gale has mostly worked as a post-production guy, but he also produced and directed two strange 1970’s Fortean documentaries, Mysteries from Beyond Planet Earth and Are We Alone in the Universe? Narrated by character actor Lawrence Dobkin, this movie pretty much hits every single theory in its 94-minute whirlwind of info. Your host stays calm through […]
TABLOID WEEK: The Force Beyond (1978)
The Weekly World News was launched in 1979 by The National Enquirer publisher Generoso Pope, Jr. as a means to keep using the black-and-white press that when that higher profile tabloid went to full color. Unlike any of the other rags you’d get at the supermarket, The Weekly World News was unafraid to wildly speculate on aliens, monsters and Elvis. It also introduced Batboy to the […]
TABLOID WEEK: The Late, Great Planet Earth (1979)
The Late, Great Planet Earth started as a best-selling 1970 book, released as the hippie occult generation’s dreams flamed out at Altamont and was annihilated on Cielo Drive. Written by Hal Lindsey with Carole C. Carlson, it was adapted by Rolf Forsberg and Robert Amram and became the film we’re about to get into. That’s the thing […]
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