Foes

8/10/2022

**Close Encounters of the Turd Kind** **SPOILERS** I remember watching this on a Saturday night on Galaxy Theater was I was a wee lad of 9 back in the late 1970's. All I remembered was that it was boring, but memorably weird - 3 shafts of vertical, pulsing light and people flying up into the rainbow air. For the longest time, that is all I had of this movie.. until Garage House Pictures released this on blu-ray. The premise is, dare I say, excellent in it's simplicity. A married couple governing over a lighthouse on a bleak island, without any forestation short of the barest bit of shubbery, are soon terrorized by a chrome UFOe after hearing a distant explosion. The husband is curious, while the wife is short of terrified. As they leave to investigate, the wife smuggles a gun