Phase
IV (1974)
The
Day The Earth Was Turned Into A Cemetery
Director
- Saul Bass
Writer - Mayo Simon
Starring
- Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick, Alan Gifford,
Robery Henderson, Helen Horton
Review by Noel Baily
Nothing gets me off more than confirmation of the spread of
limited human intelligence!
PHASE
IV is one brilliant and totally underrated movie. It is a
THINKING persons flick not for those who really should be
watching THE BLOB! The concept of an alien intelligence harvesting
the collective interactive mechanism that enables ant colony
communication and functionality, is just plain INSPIRED! The
effects without the option then of CGI were outstanding as
were so many images in the film. The "hand" sequence
and the sleeping girl especially!
At
the session I actually saw this film at back in '73, half
the audience were fidgeting and totally numbed out by it all.
Afterwards as they filed out, still stuffing chips in their
face, the usual statements wafted across to me, "Huh?
what was all that about then?" and "Jeez, what a
bore hun!"
Saul,
if you're out there. You done real good with this one son!
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