Friday, October 4, 2019

We Heart Horror 2019 - Day 4: The Visitor (1979)

  This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.  It is Mystery Science Theater 3000 levels of bad.  A bad script filled with atrocious dialogue that blatantly cribs from much better, much more famous movies that inexplicably stars two Oscar nominees, John Huston and Shelley Winters.

Long ago, the evil Sateen escaped from a spaceship to Earth.  He was finally killed by the benevolent Commander Yahweh but not before Sateen managed to propagate.  Over the many years, a child will sometimes be born with Sateen's evil abilities, a spawn of Sateen, if you will.  Katy Collins (Paige Conner) is that child for 1979.  An agent of Yahweh (John Huston) is sent to put an end to Katy's evil doing but what he mostly does is hang out on the rooftops and streets of Atlanta as Katy terrorizes her mother (Joanne Nail) into having another spawn.

Honestly, I don't even know where to begin with this movie.  It's like if you took The Omen, The Bad Seed, The Birds, and a book of racist stereotypes, put them in a blender, added some cheap LSD, gave it a lobotomy, and then set it loose to shamble along the streets of Atlanta with a cup for spare change.

Do not watch this sober.   It's streaming for free on Tubi and I still think it cost too much.

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