In the dawn of '70s American hits, European production
companies arose stateside, attempting to recreate box office gold by cloning
Hollywood. The notorious Supreme Court-banned Jaws copy Great White, The
Exorcist-esque Beyond The Door, and innumerable otherswere packaged for export
and the burgeoning drive-in circuit. Producer Ovidio G. Assonitis and Director/Expert
Body Builder Michael J. Paradise's TheVisitorstands as perhaps the most striving
of all, taking its inspiration by artfully fusing The Omen, Close Meetings Of
The Third Kind, The Birds, Rosemary's Baby, The Fury and Star Wars beside a
baffling cast that includes Shelley Winters (NightOfTheHunter), Glenn Ford
(Superman), Lance Henriksen (Aliens), Franco Nero (Django) and Sam Peckinpah
(director of TheWildBunch).
