'Somewhere Else' Sends Up Cliches From '50s to '80s ; Horror, Sitcoms, Sci-Fi Lampooned
The Washington Times › June 30, 2005
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A very funny deadpan sendup of inept 1950s sci-fi cheapies, more modern horror-film excesses, conspiracy theories and the banalities of small-town life, 1988's undeservedly obscure It Came From Somewhere Else at last earns its place in the digital sun via Xenon Pictures ($14.95, xenonpictures.com). It's our ...
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'Somewhere Else' Sends Up Cliches From '50s to '80s ; Horror, Sitcoms, Sci-Fi Lampooned
Shooting mostly in black and white, director Howard Hassler deftly captures the look and feel of his B-movie models while relating an entertainingly off-the-wall tale about a wave of alien- engineered spontaneous combustions that begins eliminating t...
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