While this ETs Among Us film is only twenty minutes, Linda Moulton Howe and narrator/director Cybela Clare analyze parallel binary code warnings from UFOs 35 years apart.

In 1980, a military officer in Bentwaters Air Force base (Britain) witnessed a landed spacecraft and was later mentally bombarded with binary code. This is better known as the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident and is considered by some to be “Britain’s Roswell.”

On December 26, 1980, U.S. military personnel spotted strange lights above Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk. Air Force officer John Burroughs was one of the men who investigated the event — which Nick Pope has claimed was an actual landing — and said “The woods lit up and you could hear the farm animals making a lot of noises. You could see the lights down by a farmer’s house. We climbed over the fence and started walking toward the red and blue lights and they just disappeared.”

Fellow office Jim Penniston said, “I estimated it to be about three meters tall and about three meters wide at the base. No landing gear was apparent, but it seemed like she was on fixed legs. I moved a little closer… I walked around the craft, and finally, I walked right up to the craft. I noticed the fabric of the shell was more like a smooth, opaque, black glass.”

Both men have PTSD from the incident and Penniston even claims that he was “bombarded with binary code.” Others say it was just a meteor or the SAS pulling a prank on the U.S. Air Force.

According to this movie, binary code was transmitted to another military man in 2015 in the USA. What do you think? Have you ever been bombarded by binary code?

You can watch this on Tubi.

Taking its title — possibly — from Lifeforce and some ideas from Under the Skin. Chris Alexander’s Space Vampire has Ali Chappell (she’s been in nearly all of his projects, including Necropolis: Legion, Scream of the Blind Dead, It Knows You’re Alone, Girl With a Straight Razor and Parasite Lady) dressed in leather and stalking a victim (Cheryl Singleton) when she isn’t simply filling the frame while low end beats pulse and wave. Alternatively, she’s showering off the blood or puking it in the bathtub.

Also known as Last Dream of the First Girl — yes, my Jean Rollin theories of Alexander’s inspirations seem to be true — Space Vampire takes advantage of being made in Southern Ontario, as the Dundurn Castle, a historic neoclassical mansion, appears. But most of what we see will be images pushed into the brightest state they can be, colors filling the screen and blood, always blood. 

So many reviews of this movie absolutely hate it. I love that it exists on Tubi and someone could be looking for a vampire movie and come across this droning film, one that takes so long and yet is so short to tell whatever nonstory it has. And that’s a compliment. It feels like something that should be confronting you in a museum and yet here it is, next to episodes of old sitcoms and whatever else a free streaming service has to unleash upon the unsuspecting.

If you have no patience, this will test you. If you want to watch a woman in a vinyl catsuit deal with the pain of vampirism while noises whirl under her when she isn’t somewhere outside of Toronto making bloodsucking footprints in the snow, I really have no idea what movie will satisfy that particular craving except for this one.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Renowned psychotherapist Barbara Lamb — who wrote this film — has proof of ET/human hybrids. What are these hybrid species? What are their abilities? Why are they here on Earth? Not only does Lamb have these answers, she also has had several long-term relationships with several hybrid species.

Now, that knowledge can be yours.

According to her website, Barbara Lamb is a “UFOlogy Researcher – Experiencer and Past Life Therapist – Crop Circle Educator.” It goes deeper to explain that “Barbara Lamb offers personalized regression therapy sessions, books, workshops and interviews. She is a world-renowned experiencer therapist, Ufologist, crop circle expert and past life therapist.” She’s also “a longtime psychotherapist, having been licensed in 1976, and a highly trained hypnotherapist and regression therapist since 1984. She had five years of training in regression therapy by the International Association for Regression Research and Therapies.  She became a trainer for that organization as well as for the Professional Institute of Regression Therapy and the International Board of Regression Therapists.  In 1991 she began regressing people to the details of their extraterrestrial encounters, and has regressed well over 2000 people   (in over 4000 regressions) to those and to other paranormal experiences.  This work and her past life therapy and her soul guidance work continues, with sessions in person in San Diego, California and on Skype or Zoom.”

You can check out her YouTube channel here.

There are four 1 star reviews on IMDB and two 10 star reviews. They are as opposite as you can get, the lower end decrying the lack of evidence and the well-reviewed ones enthralled and sure that everything in this movie is gospel. I find myself somewhere in the middle of all of this, but that doesn’t mean that I wasn’t entertained by this.

You can watch this on Tubi.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on November 25, 2021. As I’ll be exploring the films of Cybela Clare this week, this movie has been reposted with some added new material.

I have to thank Bradley Steele Harding for recommending that I watch this while also realizing that his suggestion that I watch this film is like something out of Japanese horror. I’m now obsessed by Cybela Clare and not only want to watch all of her movies, I want to know where she came from, where she’s going and if she wants me to mix her some drinks.

Her Instagram is a mix of images from the film and selfies, telling me not much. According to a 2009 Philadelphia Inquirer piece, she’s from the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood of Philadelphia and paints her as an outsider artist.

But let me tell you, you don’t make this kind of movie without being a believer. And this isn’t a “so bad it’s good” laugh off — I don’t believe in that “so bad” term — but more an exploration of exactly what this movie is all about.

The other info I’ve found comes from IMDB: Cybela is fluent in six languages, an Ivy League graduate and former Drama Tutor at Harvard University. She’s also a member of the Explorers Club and has traveled the world documenting international wildlife rescues, which have been incorporated in several of her films.

Starting with a quote from Arthur Schopenhauer, who said that the phenomenal world was the product of a blind noumenal will, this movie already sets itself up to be anything like the millions of conspiracy docs that litter Tubi: “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”

So alright. Let’s move past making fun, let’s not argue and let’s accept this movie. Good? Great.

Man, I have so many questions, so consider this my attempt to reach out across reality and ask Cybela to answer them:

• Why is this movie a documentary sometimes and a narrative other times?
• Why exactly are aliens coming to our planet?
• If people want to cover this up, how have you been making movies for over a decade and been able to post them to Tubi and Amazon Prime?
• Have you ever seen Tribulation 99?
• Did you pay for this movie all by yourself?
• Did this play in a theater?
• What are your filmmaking influences?
• How many birds do you have?
• Did this movie really cost $2 million?
• How do you stay so happy-go-lucky in the face of danger?
• Is Baby Rainbow still around?

If you ever listened to Coast to Coast when it mattered, you’ll recognize people like Jim Marrs (who wrote Crossfire, one of the sources for Oliver Stone’s J.F.K.), Nick Pope (who ran the UK Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk), UFO researcher Robert Salas, abductee Carrie Boyer, Richard C. Hoagland, Canadian politician Paul Hellyer, Lt. Col. USAF Donald Ware, Linda Moulton Howe, George Filer, original Roswell investigator Stanton Friedman, Clifford E. Stone and more. They all appear in this to add their thoughts as the story moves from narrative to documentary. There’s also a psychic artist named Yanni who is working with the aliens in the hope of saving the humans by revealing the secrets to Cleo which she will tell us through this film.

Yanni Posnakoff is also a real person who sees angels and is devoted to painting 10,000 of them in his lifetime. So is he real? Or is he part of the story? Are any of us real?

There’s also a flashback to when Cybela was abducted as a child and lost her bird Spooky, as well as plenty of moments where we learn the connection to her bird Baby, who is played by her bird Baby Rainbow. It also becomes a spy adventure as well as a real-life version of Footprints on the Moon with no Klaus Kinski to abuse our heroine.

I’m sure by now that you’ve heard of my theory of movies that feel like they were beamed to us from another dimension, a place where they think they’re making a movie about humans but obviously have no clue how humanity acts. This movie goes beyond those men in black-made films to somehow become an auteur absolute film that we cannot hope to understand if we’re not its creator, perhaps even more baffling than a movie like The Astrologer. This feels like it was made for no one other than the bird-loving heroine at its heart and yet she has decided to bestow this gift upon us.

I don’t want to understand this movie better. I want it to baffle me for the rest of my life.

According to the PR for this movie, “Writer / Director Cybela Clare has spent over fifteen years researching various facets of the mysterious phenomena of UFOs and alien abductions. Clare has compared these abductions of humans by a technologically advanced species, to our inhumane use and abuse of less advanced species (animals) on our own planet.”

This last part blows my mind.

“Cybela Clare is the pseudonym for a screen writer/ director, who has already received credit for a well known major motion picture. Because of the sensitive nature of the documentary portion of Bird’s Eye View (which exposes a real government cover-up), Ms. Clare wishes to keep her identity and background anonymous for her own safety and security.”

Please watch this on Tubi or Amazon Prime and help me figure it out.

Canadian CEO/entrepreneur Sebastien Martin is the subject of this 30-minute video in which he explains how he’s had prophetic visions since he was young, even if he tried to ignore it for most of his young adult  years. Then he had a rememberance of his alien past after meeting an Annunaki who told him that he was his brother. So began his self-discovery and in this video, he has an urgent message to give to humanity.

I never heard of the phrase starseed before and this movie opened my mind up to what it means. A starseed is someone like Sebastien, aliens who have been reawakened from another planet to be born here, an idea that some think originated in the 1976 book  Gods of Aquarius. In that book, Brad Steiger somehow went outside of our time to meet with Egyptian goddess Sekmet and learn about the real power in this world.

Starseeds believe that they have special powers, like being able to see ahead in time or heal people, and often travel to other realities and galaxies.

I’ve worked for CEOs that only worked in the middle of the night and who would call you to make you change ads and CEOs that attacked women in elevators when they thought no one was watching, but I have yet to work for a CEO that is a grey, a Nord or a skyfish.

I will not give up hope, however.

This was directed by Cybela Clare, who has made some of the most interesting films that you’re likely to find.

You can watch this on Tubi.

In a small town in Texas, an annual endurance contest in which contestants have to keep their hands on the body of a new pickup truck may offer entertainment to spectators and the chance of a lifetime to participants, but things spiral out of control.

If you’ve seen Hands On a Hard Body, you know how these contests work. German director Bastian Günther takes that idea and turns it into an examination of several people and their reasons for this test of will.

The player destined to win seems to be Kyle (Joe Cole), an unemployed local with a young wife and baby daughter. He seems obsessed to get the Nissan truck to the point that he begins to lose his sanity. There’s also a churchgoing woman named Ruthie (Lynne Ashe) who has her Bible and fellow worshippers on her side. They are amongst the twenty people gathered by Maria Parsons (Carrie Preston), the happy go lucky divorcee who has been doing this contest for years, but has never had one turn out like this.

The end of the film gets beyond dark, but it’s left to the viewer to wonder if it’s happening or the flashback shows what really happened. But real life is just as bleak. 24 year old Richard Vega threw a garbage can through the window of a K-Mart next door, walked to the sporting goods section and stole a shotgun. He was stopped by police before he could leave, at which point he shot himself. He had consumed six energy drinks over the past several hours and seemed like the most driven of all the people trying to win.

The idea of people doing anything for a prize while everyone watches won’t go away, particularly as the elite and lower castes grow further apart in America. The truck salespeople have already made it; they’re not giving an opportunity to the twenty people fighting against exhaustion to stand next to a truck. They’re giving us a way to stare and watch people fall to pieces.

I’ve been waiting for this movie for three years. Principal photography began in New South Wales in early March 2020 — just when COVID-19 started — and wrapped that June. While it had a premiere in Sarasota, Florida on October 23, 2020, it was as if this movie were never made. That is, until RJLE bought the rights and released it in theaters this March, with plans for a blu ray in May and an eventual run on Shudder.

The first movie in this series to play theaters since 1993’s Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice — there are ten other movies in this series as well as the short film that predates them, Disciples of the Crow — none of the movies have ever lived up to the original Children of the Corn.

Does this?

The town of Rylstone, Nebraska — well, Rylstone, Australia, but let’s go with what the movie tells us — is considered a government buyout for their failed corn. Robert (Callan Mulvey) plans on selling, but his daughter Boleyn (Elena Kampouris) argues it. Then there are the town’s children, led by Rylstone Children’s Home resident Eden (Kate Moyer), who come to the town meeting to weigh in before being laughed at by the grown-ups.

However, Eden speaks to He Who Walks, the demonic presence within the cornfield and soon the children of the small city have risen up and come at their parents with death in their hearts. Eden learned from an incident in your youth when Boyd (Rory Potter) emerged from the corn and killed every adult in the orphanage and when the cops unleashed halothane gas, all the kids died as well. Now, Bolelyn must figure out a way to stop the carnage when the kids go wild.

I kind of like how this film got in a message about herbicides and GMOs. There’s also a scene where Bolelyn’s beother Cecil (Jayden McGinlay) Cecil walks through town and notices just how much child abuse — not to mention his mother cheating on his dad — there is in this falling to pieces town. He joins Eden, as she claims the entity she serves will help them kill everyone.

While most of the important town leaders are placed in prison, the rest are led to a mass grave, gassed with that same halothane and then buried under dirt. It’s a really well-done and rough scene. Other than the shock ending that sets up — you know it — another sequel, things work pretty well in this, if still in the shadow of what came before.

The main reason I was excited for this was that it was directed and written by Kurt Wimmer, who wrote Sphere and the remake of The Thomas Crowne Affair before directing two wild early 2000s movies that showed off his riff on Hong Kong action called gun fu, Equilibrium and Ultraviolet.

The results? Not the worst film in the series and one that takes its own path away from the cult idea and presents more ecohorror. It’s an interesting idea and just ends up being an okay movie, but when you’re the 12th film in a series, okay sometimes is more than okay.