I wish this film really exists.
Seriously.
I love the lovely black and white cinematography, which looks like what you’d have seen in some super cheap Fifties horror film.
I love the way this faux trailer has been edited, with the constant scare headline titles and dramatic bursts of movie you’d have found in any horror or Sci Fi trailer of the era.
I love the classically familiar plot, with its paranoia, alien takeovers and shades of Quatermass 2.
I love the fact that the alien spacecraft looks suspiciously like Sputnik, which is an awesome period touch when you remember how many Fifties Sci Fi films used the word “satellite” to describe alien spaceships, or like Roger Corman’s Satellite in Space, had ball shaped space craft.
And, yes, I love the fact that the wires supporting it are clearly visible.
Most of all, I love the fact that this is a loving recreation, a parody put together by someone who clearly loves those classic films, and wanted to make one just like them…
Only funnier.
My hat is off to Michael S. Deak, a movie makeup artist who has an interesting hobby of creating short trailers just like this one. It’s a brilliant Fifties Sci Fi movie crammed into two-and-a-half minutes.
Can science — and rockets — really save the Earth?
Watch and find out!
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