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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305473152
Format: Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305473153
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: July 20, 1999
Running Time: 84 minutes
Sales Rank: 76440
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1966-11
Editorial Review:
Description:
Unique special effects combine with taut suspense in this gripping tale of a city caught up in a nightmare! A baffling alien object falls from the sky, a few miles outside London. The city becomes prey to a series of deadly kidnappings. Innocent women are being stalked, then disappearing without a trace. When it becomes apparent the reign of terror is caused by the horrifying creature from outer space, it's a chase to find him, before many more women fall into his clutches.
Amazon.com:
Two different kinds of movie coexist within this low-budget thriller. One is a civilized sci-fi picture, with a discreet monster (we barely see him, actually) and more impenetrable scientific jargon than you hear in an average episode of ER. The other is a British police procedural, with lots of men in trench coats marching stolidly around murky London streets. Neither works especially well, which may be why Night Caller from Outer Space isn't better known to film history--even under its alternate title, the more lurid Blood Beast from Outer Space. A glowing beach ball lands in English farm country, allowing an alien from Jupiter's moon Ganymede to beam himself down. The alien places an ad in Bikini Girl magazine (hey, it was swinging London, remember?) in order to lure human females into his plan to repopulate his planet. Pretty dull overall, with journeyman B-movie actor John Saxon as the token American presence. The ending is actually rather surprising, and includes a little Day the Earth Stood Still jibe at mankind's insistence on messing up a perfectly good world. The theme song at the beginning is surprising, too, adding an irrelevant touch of soft-jazz romance to an already askew movie. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Night Caller From Outer Space
You have to give this one some points just for the story, as ridiculous as it is.
An extra - terrestrial is operating in and around London. His goal is to acquire
females for replenishment of his own, mutant - plagued planet.
And how does this intellectually superior being plan to do this ?
He places a ' Models Wanted ' advertisement in a risque magazine called,
' Bikini Girl ', using a sleazy, adult book store proprietor as his middle man.
Despite the bizarre ... Read More
Rating:  - Opening intro score; (UK) Different to U.S.!!!
There have been many good reviews about this odd little film already by fellow IMDB users.
One note of interest however, is that very unfortunately the new crisp release of 'The Night Caller' has omitted the fantastic opening (UK)score to the film.
"Image" was recorded by Alan Haven; A superb musician who specialised in Hammond Organ, the opening scenes have a tracking shot over London by night and the music on original U.K. release, perfectly captures the essence of Mid-sixties Britain. ... Read More
Rating:  - night caller from outer space
Even it's set in London 1965 , It's a pretty good movie in the Scifi category.
Rating: - A Fun Movie To Watch
Truth be told, the only reason I bought this movie was because my favorite actor, John Carson, was in it. All in all, it's a fun movie to watch when you want just that - a fun movie to watch. The plot was certainly different, the ending was VERY odd, but all in all, it was fun. John Saxon was an odd casting to this - I wasn't really sure if he was supposed to be "British" because sometimes he had a slight accent, while other times he didn't. The only thing I didn't like was that my favorite guy was ... Read More
Rating:  - Much Better Than The Cover Would Suggest
I am a huge fan of B-Movies from the 1950s to the present, and when I saw the cover art (surely a near reproduction of the original theater poster) I highly suspected that this would be a first class piece of cheese.
I was wrong.
This film is an extremely well made black and white psychological thriller from the mid 1960s. It is taut, has good (for the day) special effects, a plausible story line, genuine suspense, and excellent acting, especially by the young John Saxon (much better ... Read More
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