{"id":980,"date":"2011-02-24T15:48:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?p=980"},"modified":"2014-06-24T18:14:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T17:14:43","slug":"the-night-caller-from-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mmcgrath.co.uk\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"THE NIGHT CALLER FROM OUTER SPACE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Night Caller From Outer Space<\/em> (1965) AKA Blood Beast From Outer Space<\/em> proves that not just American girls are threatened by the lustful advances of alien beasts. Martin McGrath<\/strong> leaves humming the theme tune, over and over and over…<\/h3>\n

What is that terrible noise?<\/strong> <\/strong>
\nThe niiiiight callerrrr<\/em>
\nIs a mystifying maze
\nOr a dangerous, intoxicating game…<\/em><\/p>\n

Stop! Stop! My ears are bleeding!<\/strong><\/strong>
\nThe niiiiight callerrrrr
\nMust be played with many skills.
\nAs the stakes are met for Britain\u2019s secret group…<\/em><\/p>\n

What are you doing?<\/strong><\/strong>
\nLeave me alone, I\u2019m crooning!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I thought you were throttling a moose. <\/strong><\/strong>
\nPhilistine, you can\u2019t appreciate a great theme song when you hear one.<\/p>\n

So is this film is about a maze?<\/strong><\/strong>
\nNo. Not as such.<\/p>\n

Is there a maze in it at all?<\/strong>
\nNot that I noticed.<\/p>\n

But there is a dangerous, intoxicating game?
\n<\/strong>Nope.<\/p>\n

Umm… is there a secret British group?<\/strong>
\nHmm, let me think… No.<\/p>\n

Do you think whoever wrote the song \u2013 <\/strong><\/strong>
\nAlbert Hague.<\/p>\n

Right. Do you think he actually saw the film, or read the script?<\/strong><\/strong>
\nIt would appear not.<\/p>\n

No maze! No game! What is it all about?<\/strong><\/strong>
\nAn egg falls to Earth, scientists pick it up, an alien appears, woman sees alien, woman faints, the alien hides, no one believes the woman, men see alien, everyone believes men.<\/p>\n

Do we learn anything about British scientists in the 1950s?<\/strong><\/strong>
\nThey weren\u2019t employing pretty secretaries for their typing. There is a display of two-fingered keyboard mangling that would reduce Mavis Beacon to tears. And it wasn’t for their brains, because frankly I don’t think they listen to a word the women say.<\/p>\n

So while the civil service takes a month to type up a report, what does the alien do?<\/strong>
\nTall, dark and asthmatic is abducting the female readers of Bikini Girl<\/em>, which might to be a soft porn magazine \u2013 or might not.<\/p>\n

And what do we learn about the alien?<\/strong><\/strong>
\nThat he has an eye for a nice car. After arriving from Ganymede in a glowing egg, he pinches an E-Type Jag and bombs down the motorway like a neophyte Kray.<\/p>\n

How does he kidnap the girls?<\/strong><\/strong>
\nThey are dragged through mysterious 3D photographs to distant Ganymede.<\/p>\n

How does it end?<\/strong>
\nThe alien kills lots of people then delivers a standard Cold War alien address to mankind (Version 2.1) \u2013 about mankind\u2019s need to learn to live peacefully with others (which coming from a homicidal maniac, seems a bit cheeky) \u2013 then he reveals that he is half handsome, half cheap special effect and disappears in a ball of flame.<\/p>\n

Typical. And the moral?<\/strong>
\n\u201cLets hope they find a cure, and tell us.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the real moral?<\/strong><\/strong>
\nGirls shouldn\u2019t read porn mags and shouldn\u2019t believe wheezy blokes who promise not to hurt them. Unless they want to go to Ganymede.<\/p>\n

How does that song go again?<\/strong>
\nThe niiiight callerrrrr
\n<\/em>Casts a hypnotising spell,<\/em>
\nFools who try to fight it, never live to tell.
\nNever live to te-eeeellllll!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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