Language - English
Genre - Sci-Fi, Vampire
We start with a spaceship flying through space (as a spaceship does).
Then we cut to earth and a couple who are getting intimate in a car.
Something explodes or crashes off screen which interrupts the couple just
long enough for the woman to ask ‘what was that’ and then they get back to it.
A man in sunglasses who is carrying a silver suit case walks from the
direction of the explosion up to the car he kills the couple by looking at them
and then attaches a device to the woman which drains the blood from her.
Then we cut to the opening credits (Do films still have these, if they
do they don’t have the same impact) whilst the credits are on we get scenes of
various monsters and aliens attacking humans, mainly females.
The film starts properly. Our man in the sun glasses goes into a
hospital for a blood transfusion but won't submit to a blood test to see what
type he is. After the doctor refuses to give him his test he finally allows it but hypnotizes the doctor into not telling anyone about the
results.
Whilst at the hospital the man (Mr Johnson) convinces Nadine, one of the
nurses to work for him, as he will need regular transfusions. Nadine
moves in with Mr Johnson and his other helper, Jeremy but it’s not long until
she realises that there is something not quite right with her new employer.
Not of this earth is bad, in a good B movie way. Mr Johnson is a
cold emotionless Vulcan like alien vampire who doesn't quite get some of the
things that humans do and who occasion goes into dramatic, over the top acting
that is reminiscent of a bad Dracula.
Jeremy, the man Mr Johnson has hired as his assistant starts out as a
sleazy, likable rogue who is always perving over Nadine but, somewhere along
the way we start to like him as he teams up with Nadine to find out Mr Johnsons
secrets.
Nadine comes across as likeable most of the time but, when she is with
Jeremy she turns really annoying and sarcastic.
There are some parts of ‘Not of this earth’ that puzzle me. Both Mr
Johnson’s confusion with some of his interactions with humans & Dr
Rochelle’s actions when asked about Mr Johnson seem to be an attempt to bring
more humour into the film but I’m not entirely sure if it is intentional,
Dr Rochelle comes across in an almost farcical way that does not fit in with
the rest of the film and in some scenes even seems to break the flow of the
story (the scene in the restaurant is prominent in my mind) where as Mr
Johnson's confusion just seems a bit stilted and weird.
There also seems to be an attempt to get as many topples women on screen
as possible. now i have no problem with breast, in fact I’m quite a fan
but you would think that there would be at least a few women who visit Mr
Johnson or who live in the area who walk around in clothes that don’t just come
open as soon as they meet an alien vampire. I mean he doesn't even
have to use his hypnosis to get these people to strip.
If you are a fan of ok acting, stilted dialogue and Boobs then give ‘not of this earth’ a watch hey at least it has an attempt at a plot.
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