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The Arrival
103 minutes (18) 1990 Braveworld
review by Michael Hamilton
Seventy-something Max is unwittingly exposed to something alien when he gets too
close to a fallen meteorite. Hut this isn't The Blob, it's more akin to a
virus which causes the old guy to collapse and (apparently) die. But, wouldn't you
know it, he's not really dead (even though they tried to bury him), and soon enough
he's up and about again, all twitchy and aroused at the sight or smell of blood, and
actually getting younger too. It's only a matter of time before this alien poseessed
vampire, bites, and when he does it's a killing spree to rival the most proficient
American psycho - cutting a swathe of slashed throats across six US states. Max
regains his youth (becoming surly biker, Joseph Culp) and develops super-human
strength and invulnerability. He's pursued by the obligatory FBI agent (stalwart
John Saxon) who has to overcome his skepticism about vampires in the face of
overwhelming evidence that director David (Puppet Master) Schmoeller really
has put a new spin on that fifties classic, I Married A Monster From Outer
Space. The love interest for Max is a nurse who tended him in hospital before
his 'death' that, he finds, he can not brlng himself to kill. The ending is borrowed
(fittingly) from Nosferatu.
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