Stridulum (1979)

User Rating:

2.7/10   

Director:

Giulio Paradisi

Writers:

Ovidio G. Assonitis (story)
Luciano Comici (written by)

Release Date:

1980 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

They know we are here...

Plot:

The soul of a young girl with telekinetic powers becomes the prize in a fight between forces of God and the Devil. |

Plot Keywords:

Child | Omen | Deal With The Devil | Satanism | Supernatural

Cast

Mel Ferrer	...	Dr. Walker
Glenn Ford	...	Det. Jake Durham
Lance Henriksen	...	Raymond Armstead
John Huston	...	Jerzy Colsowicz
Joanne Nail	...	Barbara Collins
Sam Peckinpah	...	Dr. Sam Collins
Shelley Winters	...	Jane Phillips
Paige Conner	...	Katy Collins
Ja Townsend
Jack Dorsey
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bill Ash
Steve Balzer
Neal Boortz
Steve Cunningham
Joe Dorsey	...	Sheriff Paul Townsend
Calvin Embry
Jack H. Gordon
Walter Gordon Sr.
Charles Hartnett
Hsio Ho Chao
Franco Nero	...	Jesus Christ
Johnny Popwell
Aron Siegel	...	Hot dog stand customer
Steve Somers
Betty Turner
Lou Walker
Wallace Wilkinson	...	Police Captain

Also Known As:

The Visitor (USA)

Runtime:

Germany:101 min | USA:90 min | Argentina:100 min

Country:

USA | Italy

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:16 (f) | Australia:R | UK:18 | USA:R | Argentina:16

Filming Locations:

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Company:

Brouwersgracht Investments

Goofs:

Continuity: After the police officer is attacked by the bird and rolls his car down the bank, we see that the car is clearly about to come to rest upright. But subsequently we see the car upside down as it catches fire.

Quotes:

Detective Jake Durham: Katy, I know you know something that was in that package, now tell me what it is and I woun't bother you anymore.
Katy Collins: Okay I will tell you but you might have to write it down. Are you ready?
Detective Jake Durham: Yes.
Katy Collins: Shove it up your ass!

GAWD awful

"The Visitor" holds a rare distinction: of the thousands of films I've seen as a paying moviegoer and paid critic, it is probably the one at the VERY bottom of the barrel. Compared to this, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" and other Ed Wood movies come across as masterpieces of celluloid art. A weird Italian-American ripoff of the horror/sci-fi cycle of the '70s (from "Omen" to "Close Encounters"), this movie looks as though it was made by a hallucinating crew that tossed the old script and started with a new one every day. There is virtually no continuity - and most of the big Hollywood names apparently working for scale and by the day (Shelley Winters, John Huston, Glenn Ford, Sam Peckingpah, etc.) stagger very briefly about looking hung over and very confused. For years, I thought my dim recollections of this movie were a bad dream; but IMDb proves I actually DID sit through this, ah, epic. The most vivid memory I have of it, for some reason, is Shelley Winters doing a perky rendition of "Shortn'ng Bread." Nelson Eddy must have spun in his grave - and if was dead yet, that probably killed him!