Have you ever had a 6 year old write you a story? "A boy was walking along, he saw an elephant. Then he married a giraffe. Then they lived in Disneyland." That story makes WAY more sense than this than this movie. Plot elements go nowhere. Character lines are impossible to follow. Countless WTF moments and continuity gaffes. None of the elements in the plot summary were shown in the movie. The last few minutes are a compilation of earlier scenes apparently placed in at the last minute to clarify things, but they make no more sense than the rest of the movie. If you can watch it for free, give it a go to see how stupid a movie can be. Then read Finnegan's Wake for a dose of sanity and clarity
4 Reviews
Bad Sci-Fi, good for a laugh
petkanasw18 February 2019
This cheesy low budget Australian film is neatly in the tradition of Robot Monster and Plan 9 From Outer Space: so bad it's fun to watch. It's impossible to follow because the dialog is random and events are jumbled. It's kind of clear that there are these aliens at war with humans but one moment they can stop bullets in mid air and turn them around and later they can be shot. Strange zombie dog creatures appear in some cut away shots for no apparent reason and without explanation. The aliens appear and disappear. People run around. Chaos reigns as people pull guns on each other. But the whole exercise is fun, watching amateur actors deliver the lines of a discombobulated script.
Horrifically bad
jenniferburrows-7758218 April 2020
The name is the key to the door of perception that you traverse to get to ..Other World
tim_sparks17 December 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Other World is, in fact just that. Some may fire up a piece of streaming media and watch what can be called a coherent story. With a story arc, protagonists. A conflict. Antagonists. Etc. They may trudge wearily from scene to scene laboring with the cumbersome lodestone of having some sort of opinion of what is going on, some sort of perception built from what they have seen so far.. their souls trapped by logic and reason!
Well my friends that is in *this* world. In Other World, we are not constrained by such shackles, by such cinematic chains. We are free to disconnect from the cinematic coil, to explore options. At random. We are free to embrace the complete and utter chaos that is Other World.
The part of this masterpiece that I personally found the most fulfilling is what I call 'the Improv Element.' What follows is a mere theory because in the face of such cosmic greatness, one can only have a theory. If you hear the voice of GOD, you disintegrate because your mortal ears cannot handle the Greatness of His Voice. So it is with any meaning or intentions behind Other World. We are mere mortals and to even get a nanosecond of understanding would cause us to peel away from our mortal coil like crisp skin from a delicious fried chicken, the kind of fried chicken that grandpappy used to take us to get at that old shack along the beach. I can still remember that smell.
OK and now the theory. I believe it is possible that each scene was assigned to a person, and the instructions were this. "Here are the main ingredients of the scene. You got an alien (spoiler alert!) You have people. You have bad dialogue and non acting. Horrible special effects. And here is where YOU make YOUR mark! For the scene YOU are in charge of you need to add in something extra or change something weirdly or both. Most importantly, it can not make a lick of sense. If it makes sense I will cut it!"
This explains the demon dogs. This explains the regular dogs. This explains the bleached human skeleton. This explains the times the alien is raw meat color. This explains the transformer robots. So many things.
If you are thinking.. this guy has just spoiled the movie for me. No. I guarantee you that no matter how much you know.. you will watch this movie in abject wonderment. And you will always know that you may understand THIS world. But.. not Other World.
Much like birth, this movie will take you from what you THOUGHT reality was to.. a new reality that you only then can start to process and try to understand. I would suggest you show this movie to a child, the younger the better and by the time that child reaches their late 90's.. have them write down in their Holy Text any understanding that they may have gleaned. Someday.. if we do this.. mankind may someday understand.. Other World.
Amen.
Well my friends that is in *this* world. In Other World, we are not constrained by such shackles, by such cinematic chains. We are free to disconnect from the cinematic coil, to explore options. At random. We are free to embrace the complete and utter chaos that is Other World.
The part of this masterpiece that I personally found the most fulfilling is what I call 'the Improv Element.' What follows is a mere theory because in the face of such cosmic greatness, one can only have a theory. If you hear the voice of GOD, you disintegrate because your mortal ears cannot handle the Greatness of His Voice. So it is with any meaning or intentions behind Other World. We are mere mortals and to even get a nanosecond of understanding would cause us to peel away from our mortal coil like crisp skin from a delicious fried chicken, the kind of fried chicken that grandpappy used to take us to get at that old shack along the beach. I can still remember that smell.
OK and now the theory. I believe it is possible that each scene was assigned to a person, and the instructions were this. "Here are the main ingredients of the scene. You got an alien (spoiler alert!) You have people. You have bad dialogue and non acting. Horrible special effects. And here is where YOU make YOUR mark! For the scene YOU are in charge of you need to add in something extra or change something weirdly or both. Most importantly, it can not make a lick of sense. If it makes sense I will cut it!"
This explains the demon dogs. This explains the regular dogs. This explains the bleached human skeleton. This explains the times the alien is raw meat color. This explains the transformer robots. So many things.
If you are thinking.. this guy has just spoiled the movie for me. No. I guarantee you that no matter how much you know.. you will watch this movie in abject wonderment. And you will always know that you may understand THIS world. But.. not Other World.
Much like birth, this movie will take you from what you THOUGHT reality was to.. a new reality that you only then can start to process and try to understand. I would suggest you show this movie to a child, the younger the better and by the time that child reaches their late 90's.. have them write down in their Holy Text any understanding that they may have gleaned. Someday.. if we do this.. mankind may someday understand.. Other World.
Amen.
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