The Return (1980)

User Rating:

2.3/10   

Director:

Greydon Clark

Writers:

Curtis Burch (writer)
Jim Wheat (writer)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years...

Plot Keywords:

Cattle Mutilation | Cattle | Alien | Cave | Animal

Cast

Jan-Michael Vincent	...	Wayne
Cybill Shepherd	...	Jennifer
Martin Landau	...	Niles Buchanan
Raymond Burr	...	Dr. Kramer
Neville Brand	...	Walt
Brad Rearden	...	Eddie
Vincent Schiavelli	...	Prospector
Ernest Anderson	...	Dr. Mortorff
Darby Hinton	...	Darren
Steven Hirsch	...	Dr. Parkfield
Susan Kiger	...	Joyce
Ken Minyard	...	Federal Agent #1
Roger Hampton	...	Homer
Hilary Labow	...	Lee Ann
Candy Castillo	...	Federal Agent #2

Also Known As:

Earthright
The Alien's Return (USA) (reissue title)

Runtime:

Brazil:86 min | Belgium:94 min (video version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Norway:15

Filming Locations:

Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Trivia:

Cybill Shepherd claimed in her autobiography that the cast were “a rather sad group of actors, all trying to resurrect our diminished careers. Burr read his lines off a TelePrompter.”

The movie was probably trying to capitalize on the light saber craze.

As a kid I did think the weapon the murderer wielded was cool, however I was a kid and so I was a bit dumb. Even as a dumb kid though the movies plot was stupid and a bit boring when the killer was not using his light knife to kill people. What amazes me is that the movie has a really solid cast in it. What script did they read when agreeing to be in this movie as it is most assuredly boring and only a means to show off a light saber on a very small scale. The plot at times is incomprehensible and the end is totally chaotic. The whole film seems to rotate around aliens and the one weapon. The plot has two kids and some dude having an alien encounter, flash years later and there seems to be a return as it were in the mix. Dead animals and such to be explored and for some reason the one dude gets the weapon of the aliens and proceeds to use it to go on a very light killing spree. Seriously, you just have to wonder why this movie was made, if you are going to have a killer have some good death scenes, if you are going to have alien encounters show more than a weird light vortex thing, and if you are going to have light sabers then call yourself star wars.