111: The Visitor w/guest Love Connie

We're joined by our friend, drag legend Love Connie for a look deep into the abyss. We watched Giulio Paradisi's unhinged 1979 shit show, The Visitor, and found that the abyss stares back. This is not an easy movie to explain. It is stacked with some of Hollywood's heaviest hitters in the cast: John Huston, Shelley Winters, Mel Ferrer, Sam Peckinpah, and Glenn Ford and no one can explain why that is. It's not even clear if any of these people even know what's happening. They're just happy to be here. Meanwhile, an American TV writer who is lucky enough to be fluent in Italian struggles to translate ideas from the director and producer into something that makes sense and ultimately gives in to their nonsensical demands as the director's vision for The Visitor is a series of images in his head that he thinks are cool and a producer's vision to rip off as many horror movies of the 1970s as possible in a single movie. In the end, nothing makes sense, the movie looks amazing, features a killer score, but just kind of meanders through hammy performances, nonsense dialog, and a psychedelic ending that does absolutely nothing to tie up whatever passes for a plot. In spite of all of this, The Visitor is mersmerizing train wreck of a movie to behold.

If The Visitor is about anything, as near as this writer can summarize, it concerns a struggle between cosmic forces of good evil who wage a secret war. One side wishes to birth a pair of children who will come together to resurrect an ancient evil alien who will destroy everything. The other side opposes them, seeking to save the life of an innocent girl who commands the powers of evil and is destined to usher in a dark age for the universe. That is nominally what this movie is about. What happens in this movie is another matter entirely.

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