Memorable, crazy movie

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

If you grew up on The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, and you liked these, it's not a stretch that you'll find Unearthly Stranger to your liking.This is a Brit B-Movie of the times, the early sixties when the actual talk of UFOs and possible aliens, more or less, began permeating pop culture. By keeping the story compact, using a cast that plays it serious with a bit of intelligence no matter how slightly bare bones the story…it mostly works in it's modest scope.There are some elements to this film that at the time must have seemed tremendously far- fetched, quite unbelievable? It's interesting that many of these elements became more accepted, in fact they've only expanded with time. One of is the element of remote viewing which is alluded as his having something to do with the secret project being studied. The others would be hybrid aliens and some kind of extraterrestrial shut-down of electrically controlled things. Anyone who has read up on more modern UFOs know of cars being disabled, nuclear weapon systems being taken mysteriously off line, and even mysterious unexplainable sounds in whole communities. All of that is already in this movie strangely enough. I'd say it's out there without being too out there at all. At the time I imagine it seemed quite weird. Pretty good in hindsight.

Wonderful little British science fiction thriller. Unearthly Stranger features John Neville as a recently married rocket scientist who discovers that many things in his life are not what they appear to be. Neville's wife is played by Gabriella Licudi and she gives her character a very exotic and surreal persona.Phillip Stone in his film debut plays Nevilles superior. Patrick Newell plays the head of security who is immediately suspicious of Neville's wife.Neville's character has been part of a scientific team that has been researching the possibility of space travel by the power of thought.Members of the team seem to be dying as a result of unexplained accidents and Neville has become terrified that he too will come meet with an accidental death because of his association with the project.Stone and Newell both point out to Neville his wife's many strange living habits and certain powers she seems to have that just are not human. They both meet with strange unexplained deaths Neville also notices that Licudi seems to be getting more and more depressed and anxious. She finally tells him the reason for his and this leads them both to an eerie climax that the viewer will never forget. Unearthly Stranger kind of slipped under the radar when it was first released but it has gained an almost cult like status as the years have gone by. It's not easy to find but it is worth seeking out.

Not a review of this excellent film but, rather, a correction to a few statements made by others...Some people consider UNEARTHLY STRANGER to be an uncredited rip-off of a 1936 science-fiction novel written by William M. Sloane III entitled TO WALK THE NIGHT. After hearing about that, I obtained a copy of Sloane's novel and read it in detail. I can assure you that, while one concept in the movie bears a "slight" similarity to Sloane's book, the overall story and form of execution in UNEARTHLY STRANGER are very different and would not present any grounds for an accusation of plagiarism on the part of the filmmakers. (If this could be interpreted as such, then many writers would have sued THE TWILIGHT ZONE for using similar ideas from their stories and had it pulled off the air.) In UNEARTHLY STRANGER, the scientist's wife is an alien taking physical form by means of mental projection. In TO WALK THE NIGHT, the body of a young retarded woman is possessed by an alien's mind. That, beyond the use of a spiral staircase in an utterly different kind of location and maybe the use of a kind of ethereal fire to destroy evidence, is the only major similarity between the two stories--but it is tangential at best.Also, UNEARTHLY STRANGER is *not* based on a story written by actor Jeffrey Stone. The film's writing credits read "Based on an IDEA by Jeffrey Stone". To us writers, that identifies a huge difference. Furthermore, there is no published record anywhere of a story called BEYOND THE STARS by Jeffrey Stone.Many people familiar with Rex Carlton's work believe him incapable of writing such an intelligent script as the one found in UNEARTHLY STRANGER. But Carlton actually was associated with higher quality films earlier in his career (late 1940's & early 1950's), so one can only presume that the initial screenplay for UNEARTHLY STRANGER is still dominantly his work (though it obviously received uncredited polishing by the British filmmakers prior to shooting).

When you see this film, your first remembrance will be, "dark." As in low lighting. Inexplicably, this adds to the suspense, much the same way that Val Lewton successfully utilized shadow to cover for his lack of budget, in such nuggets as "The Leopard Man" and "Curse of the Cat Creature." The second thing about "Unearthly Stranger" is that it joins the ranks of such British gems as "Dead of Night" (1945) and the Quatermass series for its dialogue alone. The story itself is fairly unique-- scientists are attempting to achieve the power to transport their "essences" to other planets via mind concentration alone, and aliens from other planets are looking to stop this advancement by offing all scientists at work on this. The perspective is from a newly-married scientist, a la "I Married a Monster From Outer Space," but without that film's harrowing melodrama. Effects are minimal here, reflecting both the low budget and the British method of story-telling, so FX fans will be disappointed, but acting students will be pleased with the non-hysterical range displayed. All in all, a worthwhile watch.