Not of This Earth (1988 film)
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| Directed by | Jim Wynorski |
| Produced by |
Roger Corman Murray Miller Jim Wynorski |
| Written by |
Charles B. Griffith Mark Hanna |
| Screenplay by | R.J. Robertson Jim Wynorski |
| Based on |
Not of This Earth by Charles B. Griffith and Mark Hanna |
| Starring |
Traci Lords Arthur Roberts Lenny Juliano Rebecca Perle |
| Music by | Chuck Cirino |
| Cinematography | Zoran Hochstätter |
| Edited by | Kevin Tent |
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Miracle Pictures
Pacific Trust |
| Distributed by | Concorde Pictures |
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Running time
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81 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Not of This Earth is a 1988 science fiction horror comedy film, directed by Jim Wynorski. It is a remake of Roger Corman's 1957 film of the same name, written by Charles B. Griffith and Mark Hanna. It stars Traci Lords, Arthur Roberts, Lenny Juliano and Rebecca Perle. The film follows the character of Nadine Story, a young nurse who is assigned to help one of the patients requiring regular blood transfusions at his home. The strange man hiding under the name of Mr. Johnson is an alien sent to Earth to find out if transfusions of human plasma might be a cure for his dying race.
Not of This Earth was made as a result of a wager where Wynorski bet he could remake the film in the same (inflation-adjusted) budget and schedule as the 1957 version by Corman. Lords was cast in the film immediately and the part of Nadine Story became her first mainstream film role after her departure from the adult film industry. Like any number of Roger Corman productions, this one includes scenes lifted from earlier films as filler, such as the dog in the foggy woods and the woman being stalked from outside her home, as originally seen in Humanoids from the Deep, as well as the scene of the caped, knife-wielding stalker from Hollywood Boulevard.
Nadine Story (Traci Lords) is a nurse working in the office of Dr. Rochelle (Ace Mask). She encounters an unusual patient Mr. Johnson (Arthur Roberts), who is always dressed in black, wears dark sunglasses and demands a blood transfusion. After Dr. Rochelle tests Johnson's blood, he's surprised to discover the man's body isn't producing blood in the usual manner, and Johnson hires Nadine to work in his home and give him regular transfusions. With the help of her boyfriend Harry (Roger Lodge), she soon discovers that Johnson an emissary from the planet Davanna, who is looking for a ready supply of human blood his people need to survive.
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