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They Came From The Ether (2014) |
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On to the movie: This looks like it was a no-budget, amateur project by a couple of guys who don't have much film making experience, but they did their homework and hit it out of the park! After seeing the color stills, I realize just how much presenting the movie in black & white helps the overall look of the film. Writer / Director James Pronath delivers a goofy tale about a down-on-his-luck vacuum cleaner salesman who stumbles upon an alien that helps him build his business by giving him alien technology that makes his vacuum cleaners better. Despite the corny premise, the dialog of script is pretty solid and stays true to the style. Most of the actors probably aren't actually actors, but they all did at least a decent job of playing their parts. The two main guys, Christopher Fisher and Paul Gibson, actually are actors and they both did an excellent job. There were a couple of great cameos by 80s scream queen Linnea Quigley and Judith "They're coming to get you Barbara" O'Dea from Night of the Living Dead. If you understand going in what you're watching, it's all very true to form. Without a doubt, the most impressive thing about this movie was the score by Steven Grove. This guy absolutely nailed it! If you are at all a fan of (or are even aware of) the background music that plays during a movie, it's worth watching They Came From The Ether just for the score! I've seen movies with a good score before, but I've never seen a movie with a score that was good enough to carry the film until now. If I rated this stuff, I'd give the score a 10 out of 10. I understand the use of computer graphics, but some of the computer backgrounds really took away from the authenticity of this movie. There are interior scenes in a spaceship that just look completely modern. They used a green screen behind the actors and then threw computer backgrounds in there. I would have preferred badly made sets that were actually in camera, but I know that would have taken a lot of time to make. Since this project was created at a very home made level, I can understand why they chose to go this route. Despite the green screen spaceship sets, They Came From The Ether succeeds in delivering a fun, campy adventure in the style of the classic Sci-Fi movies of the 1950s. If you enjoy that kind of movie, I highly recommend you check this one out...but don't let the promotional materials scare you away, they really did do a much better job of making the movie look vintage than the promotion would suggest! Visit the Six Foot Hamster Films website for more info.: http://www.sixfoothamsterfilms.com/
Skin-o-meter: 0 out of 5 (This REALLY isn't that kind of movie!)
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