Movies

El hombre perseguido por un Ovni (1976) Also enigmatically known as The Man of Ganimedes, this thrifty Spanish-made story of a man persecuted by a UFO is full of fun. Trippy light and film effects, NASA stock footage, gratuitous nudity and automotive excitement. Biomechanical humanoids from a flying saucer want to abduct this guy, so they steal his little grey Simca sedan and shove it off a cliff, then hoist it up with their saucer and ditch it IN SPACE, then chase him around and he fights with the yellow-blooded monstrosities a few times and eventually the silver-handed Master Controller in the motorcycle helmet with lights on it gets him on board the saucer to explain it all to him. Full of incident and bright color, wildly varying film quality and also some gratuitous nudity, which I may have mentioned, but pretty irrational plotwise. It's very important for this sort of film to have lots of extremely colorful bits, even if they are irrelevant or nonsensical - I mean ESPECIALLY if they are irrelevant or nonsensical. Just the type of movie that has me chortling with glee and exclaiming, "This is SO GREAT!" I salute semi-professional director Juan Carlos Olaria for a real good effort. Not really watchable by normal folks though, so 6/10.

He won't escape us with his car IN SPACE like this!