Wheeler Dixon and Sidney Paul spent a lot of time together in 1978 and 1979. That said, maybe they did all of this in four hours, making several movies and doing no small amount of drugs. 

What are we into this time? Well, flying saucers, cryptozoology, ghosts, alien life on their home planet, psychic phenomena, Kirlian photography, Uri Geller, earthquakes, the home movies of Hitler, aliens eating us, fairies, the Loch Ness monster… nothing is off the table. I mean it. Have you ever talked to me and wondered how I can change subjects so quickly that you wondered if I was high? I am high. But I can’t jump around as much as this.

I decided to transcribe some of this so that I can share with you the words that fly by so quickly.

Welcome to the World of Mystery, a world of strange sights and sounds, a world of unexplained mysteries and visitation from other planets. It is a world of ghosts, of monsters from outer space, of demons and sorcery, of monsters from the depths of the seas, of werewolves and Satanic ceremonies, of despotic rulers and wars. In short, a world of contradictions, continual conflicts and unexplained phenomena which scientists are only now beginning to unravel.

Throughout this movie, I yell at the screen during the narration, things like, “No, they aren’t!” and “That’s not true!”

This is how fast this movie changes things on you: Seen in this photograph is the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, supposedly surrounded by tiny fairies. Actually, this photo is a fake, constructed to show that fakery was possible. This photo of a medieval tapestry depicts a seven-headed dragon, known in the Book of Revelation as the Beast of the Apocalypse.

Wait, were we talking about faeries? Have you ever had an old person keep showing you photos on their phone, and every image is blurry, you have no idea what it is, and you don’t even know who they are? Just me?

This is a breakneck, psychedelic journey through the paranormal that feels less like a film and more like a fever dream. If it feels like the creators were operating on an entirely different plane of reality, it’s because the movie refuses to stay on one subject for more than a few seconds, hurtling from the occult to deep-space nihilism without catching its breath.

This isn’t even the end of the movie, as somehow, this continues after this:

Yet out in the vast reaches of space, how little this all matters. Man is just a small and not very important part of the vastness of the universe, less than a millionth of its contents. Man thinks he is immortal. But what is age to the denizens of the stars? From a small portion of space, we can grasp the relative insignificance of our own existence. Whether we look at a small portion of the universe or a larger area, we can easily see that mankind could cease to exist without the universe even noticing it.

Now we’re just destroyed. Thanks, World of Mystery.

You can watch this on YouTube.