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Wavelength (1983 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Wavelength' is a 1983 science fiction film written and directed by Mike Gray and starring Robert Carradine, Cherie Currie, and Keenan Wynn.
Plot
Bobby Sinclaire (Robert Carradine), a failing Californian musician, meets telepathic Iris Longacre (Cherie Currie) in a bar and they begin a relationship. At Sinclaire's apartment, Longacre begins to hear things others cannot. The young couple discover the voices are from a childlike race of aliens being held by the U.S. government after their UFO crashed. The government plans to use the trio of aliens for experimentation and dissection in a supposedly abandoned underground bunker located near Sinclaire's apartment. The couple decides to liberate the aliens and help them return them to their mothership.
Reception
TV Guide gave the movie two out of five stars, praising the movie's sense of morality and soundtrack, but found Carradine's performance lacking during the music scenes and the narration at the beginning and ending of the film to be very detrimental to the movie. Moria found that the movie has a promising build up, but that the film heads in predictable directions, and that its special effects were lacking. Creature Feature found that the movie was an interesting morality tale, and also praised the soundtrack, but said that the use of children to play the aliens hampered the film.Stanley, J. (2000) Creature Feature: 3rd Edition
Production
It was planned for the movie to be released before 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial', but implementation of the film's special effects delayed its release.
Soundtrack
'Wavelength' (1983) is the twentieth major release and third soundtrack album by the German band Tangerine Dream. It is the soundtrack for the film 'Wavelength' starring Robert Carradine, Cherie Currie, and Keenan Wynn.
Many of the tracks are remixes from other albums:
* "Desert Drive" and "Spaceship" are remixed excerpts from "Quichotte, Part One" from 'Quichotte'.
* "Healing is a remixed excerpt of "Tangram Set One" from 'Tangram'
* "Breakout" is a remixed version of "Vitamin C" from the Edgar Froese soundtrack to the film 'Kamikaze 1989'.
* "Church Theme" is a remix of "Silver Scale"; a song that was performed live during European tours in 1980 and 1981, but not released by that name until 1994 on 'Tangents'.
* "Sunset Drive" is a remix of "Remote Viewing" from 'Exit'.
*"Alley Walk" contains elements related to the 1983 single "Moorland" taken from the German TV series 'Tatort'.
*"Alien Voices" and "Wavelength Main Title" were used in the intro of the 1988 Colombian series called "El Visitante"
See also
*List of films featuring extraterrestrials
References
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