THE OUTER SPACE CONNECTION (1975)

Distributed by the same company that brought us the awesome IN SEARCH OF NOAH’S ARK, I had high hopes that THE OUTER SPACE CONNECTION was gonna be more of the same kinda goofy fun. The opening narration, by The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling, even promises that “This may be the most startling and controversial film you will ever see.” Hell yeah, that sounds good to me! Nope.

Who knows, maybe THE OUTER SPACE CONNECTION was shocking to audiences back in 1975, but now in good old 39,955 (sorry, I mean 2025…sometimes I forget that I time-blog back to 21st Century, Old Earth) this kind of stuff is just weak. Plants have auras, The Dead Sea Scrolls, mummies, ancient lines dug into the earth, the Bermuda Triangle, ancient sculptures and so on. We’ve all heard about this stuff a thousand times before. The only truly interesting thing in THE OUTER SPACE CONNECTION is the announcement that aliens are going to return to Earth on December 24th, 2011. So, make sure to mark your calendars for that, I guess.

It's my own fault, but I honestly thought this movie was going to be about the history of unidentified flying objects and alien abductions. Instead, I got a depressing video of a monkey that’s trained to ask a computer for a slice of apple. Humans suck. That segment just broke my heart.

Watch it if you want, but I found the entire thing to be disappointing and depressing.