There is an audience, apparently, for these affectionate salutes to old-time schlockers. This double-bill features the required cheesy look, incompetent acting, and production budget of 500 bucks. It's also filmed in glorious black and white. And you know, it must have been a gas to make---obviously everyone involved is related, or lives next door to the director. (Why doesn't anybody ask me to be in one of these things? I can act just as badly as these people.) But the experience of intentionally putrid movies is much different than watching something like "Manos", "The Room", or "Plan 9". A klunker that is intended to be taken seriously is somehow funnier, and this isn't in that genre.....but that's just me. You may get a kick out of this, so give it a try.
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Two for the price of one
Leofwine_draca8 January 2018
Warning: Spoilers
THE LATE NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE is another throwback indie feature from director Christopher R. Mihm, made on tiny budgets and shot in black and white. They're conceived as tributes to 1950s cult cinema with deliberately retro styliings and a low-fi look. Mihm usually makes feature-length productions but these two came up short so he put them together as one. The first, X: THE FIEND FROM BEYOND SPACE, is a generic bit of fun about a space crew attacked by a man-in-a-suit alien. The second, THE WALL PEOPLE, is about unusual child abductors and less successful as the budget is too low to do the story justice. The films are too cheap to really work but at least they don't outstay their welcome too much.
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