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Target... Earth?
“Is Earth Worth Saving?”
6.5 / 10• 1980• 1h 35m•NR• English
DocumentaryScience Fiction
Storyline
Really strange documentary of Wheeler Dixon production quality on the Tunguska Event and the possibility of it happening again causing an apocalypse (basically a meteor scare film) sprinkled with UFO conspiracy kooks, and other 'professionals', riddled with stock footage of all kinds, freaky moog music and sound fx, a Dr. Who rip-off end theme, Victor Buono as Homer the Archivist, a philosophical history recorder in a space ship with a HAL 9000 type talking computer named Ino, there's also another space ship with Egyptian looking aliens girls with pasties and see-thru blouses.
Cast & Crew
Victor Buono
Homer The Archivist
Lead
Rick Overton
Ino The Computer (voice)
Carl Sagan
Self
Isaac Asimov
Self
EC
Eugene Cernan
Self (archive footage)
BJ
Bernard J. Carr
Self (as Dr. Bernard Carr)
Frank Drake
Self (as Dr. Frank Drake)
Ronald E. Evans
Self (archive footage)
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Joost Van Rees's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Target... Earth? is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
