Good idea lost in the noise

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

An electronics expert searching for evidence of aliens picks up signals that he believes are from an alien spacecraft.And they are coming from a lake near town.You will never care.This movie is directed like a TV film and is completely unwatchable.There's even a professor with the worst silver wig you'll ever see.The only saving grace is the 1hr 16 min short running time.The story is horrible, writing worse.Acting non existent.How financing for it was ever obtained is beyond me.

So I was in the mood for a cheesy sci fi movie last night...and I got more than I bargained for. I found this movie on a 50 pack I'd had for awhile and popped it into the ol' DVD player. I remembered I'd tried to watch it before and gave up, but I decided to try again. I noticed the lavish opening credits sequence, with its fancy colors and real music. If I made this film, I would've just used white block letters and stock music to save time. It's obvious the filmmaker wasted his money on the expensive credits sequence, rather than saving it for good actors, non-blurry film, better editing...I think you get the point. The writer has written a fairly intelligent and thought provoking script, but a good script doesn't amount to a hill of beans in a movie with bad lighting, direction, editing... again, I think you get the point. I think this movie attempted to be sort of cerebral sci fi, but only ends up being dull. It would have made a much better book than movie. And boy, the movie looks terrible. At one point, a boom mike enters the shot. And stays there. And stays there. For a minute at least! And the ending! It looked nice considering what movie it was, but one gets the feeling that it was more than "inspired" by "2001: A Space Odyssey". Overall, I think this could've been much better. With a less cheesy title, better acting, etc, etc. Good for non bias sci fi geeks, but to everyone else, it's probably like sitting through a boring Physics class.

I kind of enjoyed the leisurely pace of the movie; it was sort of a nostalgic flashback to a time when movies moved slowly enough for me to absorb all elements in a scene, instead of flashing through at such a breakneck speed that much information is lost. It was a dopey movie with mostly inept acting and a dopey premise (the aliens' speeches at the end sounded like any given night on George Noory), but it wasn't totally a waste of time. The music was pleasant; the whole movie had a kind of amateurish charm to it. I wouldn't ever watch it again, but I don't regret the time I spent on it. I have sat through far worse. And it is a little time capsule of 1974.

Terrible film, suffered from not just being long, and boring, but it appeared it was some kind of 16mm film, made by college students on a shoestring budget and transferred to 35mm-not an uncommon practice at the time for low-budget films, turned into potboilers for drive-in 2nd features. I remember it was "hyped" as a docudrama and double billed with The Devil's Triangle, another documentary that was narrated by Vincent Price and was at least,entertaining but both cashed in on,in then-1974, hype over UFOs and Bermuda Triangle lore. The plot is basically an electronics expert determines that strange signals may be coming from a rural area where he grew up-and a possible UFO crash site- at the bottom of a lake. The ship crashed possibly many years ago and it's occupants-or their psychic energies- have apparently been alive all that time and been attempting to communicate. An old-timer recalls when he was a boy, a "star falling into the lake". We never really see anything but an attempt is made to create a creepy, "too quiet" lake in many shots. The whole thing reeks of poor film-making-everyone in one shot, talking-lots of glib talking- as if they are reading the script, and extremely poor FX(what there are of them). Most seem to be just video tricks such as high contrast/video blending images of the alien's face on a monitor and a cheap bit of animation showing a ship in space-something like a dime store 2001. Interesting opening titles sequence with a strange but catchy electro-smooth "70's sounding" song called "Between The Attic and The Sky" and a montage of UFO photos we have all seen before. Everything is shot at night, or in a perpetual sunset-across-the-lake mode. This film oddly had a huge play in many areas in 1974, and wound up as a prime-time TV syndicated film the next year in many markets.