[crabapple]

Well, I should start at the beginning. One day when I was home sick (I should have been in school but I had a cold, or maybe I just pretended to have a cold) I was watching Channel 11 and here was this movie. Weird title, so I was ready to watch it. And I liked it mainly because it was strange (it's not really "good"). There was a bloody scene early on with the kid putting his hand through a piece of glass and getting cut; and this definitely stuck in my mind. Anyway, for years I remembered this film. I remembered the lame mummy, the boulders, and a few other things.

And like the best obscure movies, no one ever mentioned this movie to me, and I never saw it again on TV. Never saw it in a video store either. This movie slowly began to take on a strange importance in my mind. Just like the unattainable woman who is all the more desireable because she is never within reach. A lost dream....a dream of 70's boredom! Maybe seeing this in the early 80's (the 80's were basically a pale echo of the 70's) had something to do with it. I knew it was bad when I was watching it that first time. But just as surely, I was developing a taste for certain kinds of bad films at that time. "Encounter With The Unknown" is another movie like this...somewhat incompetent but with a strange power to hypnotize and unnerve.

Cut to: Many years later (about a year ago) I notice this film is available from Amazon.com and also on Ebay. And guess what--it's so obscure and so, oh, UNREMARKABLE, let's say, that copies are fairly cheap! Nobody wants these things! So I buy one and wait excitedly for it to arrive in the mail.

You should get one too! There's several for only $1.60 on Amazon.

But it gets better. There's a dude at Ebay Stores, he has one for 99 Cents plus 2 dollars shipping! Spend three bucks and this thing will probably be there in 10 days.

I looked this up on imdb just now and there are several people who have written weird testimonials to this movie.