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An alien intelligence aborts the launching of a rocket with the help of a bunch of children.An alien intelligence aborts the launching of a rocket with the help of a bunch of children.An alien intelligence aborts the launching of a rocket with the help of a bunch of children.
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Russell Johnson
- Joe Gamble
- (as Russell D. Johnson)
Robert Anderson
- Guard
- (uncredited)
- Director
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Did you know
- TriviaThe interior of the Brewster trailer - Unit #3 - is the set that had been built for the MGM movie The Long, Long Trailer (1954). The exterior of the trailer however is not the same New Moon model.
- GoofsWhenever the 'lightning' effect occurs as the holy blob uses his power, the shadows of both objects and people show up on the 'sky' and background elements revealing them to be back-drops in a studio.
- Quotes
Bud Brewster: We found something that fell out of the sky this afternoon. We know where it is.
Anne Brewster: The sky?
Ken Brewster: Bud's telling the truth. I saw it too. It fell out of the sky. Well, you've got to believe him!
- ConnectionsFeatured in It Came from Hollywood (1982)
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Not Arnold's best, but still a classic
While not Arnold's best film, IMHO (I find it a bit preachy and badly hampered by the rubbery silliness of the Big Alien Brain), this is still a memorable film. Though set in a beachfront area it happens mostly at night, using Arnold's typically haunting black-and-white compositions to set an appropriate tone of strangeness and isolation. The children, alienated from their preoccupied and overworked parents, are almost adopted by the space creature, which takes them under its protection (a drunken and abusive father is disposed of soon after the brain's arrival) even as it enlists them in its pacifist mission. At first fairly typical kids, they quickly develop an air of gravity and wisdom that remains after the alien departs, suggesting a lasting, even evolutionary effect. The film's title is perfect: the kids do become Space Children, more in tune with alien than human thought.
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- angelynx
- Apr 9, 1999
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- Runtime1 hour 9 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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