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The Visitor

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The Visitor	comment	The Visitor is an Italian/American 1979 science fiction/horror film starring Lance Henriksen, Glenn Ford, and John Huston. Noted actors Mel Ferrer, Sam Peckinpah, Franco Nero, and Shelley Winters also appear. The film tells the surreal, hallucinatory story of a benevolent alien who has come to Earth in pursuit of a child named Katy (Paige Connor) who may be a descendant of a malevolent alien intelligence known as Zateen. The girl's hapless mother, Barbara (Joanne Nail) becomes swept up in the frightening struggle between the two entities, while her boyfriend (Henriksen) and physician (Ferrer) represent a sinister organization which has its own disturbing plans for Barbara and Katy.The film is noteworthy for its all-star cast, some trippy visual effects sequences and for revisiting the Satanic horror tropes popularized by films of the era such as The Omen, The Exorcist, and Rosemary's Baby, but with a science fiction twist.Received the RiffTrax treatment in 2019.
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The Visitor / int_10dffb47	comment	Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: Katy acts like one of these while attempting to kill Barbara during the climax, complete with her long, blonde hair completely covering her face.
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The Visitor / int_11ec1fd5	type	Off-the-Shelf FX
The Visitor / int_11ec1fd5	comment	Off-the-Shelf FX: While cars designed for paraplegic individuals to drive do exist, the vehicle that Barbara drives following the shooting clearly isn't one, presumably for budgetary reasons.
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The Visitor / int_25b4ad2f	type	Surprisingly Happy Ending
The Visitor / int_25b4ad2f	comment	Surprisingly Happy Ending: Apart from Barbara getting paralyzed and a few scratches at the end, she is mostly fine. Jerzy and his group destroy the cult and manage to bring Katy to the Christ-like figure and she seems to have turned over a new leaf. It is among the happiest endings in a European horror movie and with no sequel hook either.
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The Visitor / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Visitor / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The mystery of how the gun got into the gift box is never solved and everyone seems to lose interest in it after the detective who was investigating it dies.
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The Visitor / int_2aafefc1	type	God-Karting with Beelzebub
The Visitor / int_2aafefc1	comment	God-Karting with Beelzebub: A literal version, with the angelic Jerzy and antichrist figure Katy relaxing for a game of Pong together.
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The Visitor / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Visitor / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: This might quite possibly be the most incompetent cult of all time. Not only do they fail to prevent Barbara aborting her fetus, they even fail to kill her at the end and are wiped out quite easily by Jerzy and his group.
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The Visitor / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
The Visitor / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Detective Durham's car explodes seconds after it crashes, killing him. Possibly justified, given that a psychokinetic antichrist actively wanted him dead.
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The Visitor / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
The Visitor / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: Jerzy summons thousands of extraterrestrial birds to subdue Katy and slay Raymond at the end.
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The Visitor / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
The Visitor / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: John Huston as Polish Jerzy Colsowicz.
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The Visitor / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
The Visitor / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Zateen's followers seek to resurrect him by breeding his male and female descendants together.
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The Visitor / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
The Visitor / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: The Christ-like figure who cares for the strange, bald children who are actually Zateen's rehabilitated offspring.
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The Visitor / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
The Visitor / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Played straight in a surprising way. Katy is seemingly overwhelmed and killed by the bird army, but at the end is revealed to be alive and well, and a happy new member of the celestial school. The film ends as a smiling Jerzy reminds his master that they do not kill children.
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The Visitor / int_7c5960bf	type	Hall of Mirrors
The Visitor / int_7c5960bf	comment	Hall of Mirrors: At one point Jerzy and Katy test their powers against each other in one, which is apparently located inside an empty strip club, for some reason.
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The Visitor / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
The Visitor / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Completely subverted and deconstructed. Once Barbara understands that she has been abducted and forcibly impregnated, the first thing she does is reach out to her doctor ex-husband who provides the necessary service. Moreover, she does so with the explicit guidance and approval of beings implied to be the basis for Christianity's God and angels.
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The Visitor / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
The Visitor / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: Katy appears as one of these in the opening vision sequence, and then again at the end when she attacks Barbara.
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The Visitor / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Visitor / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: At one point when being pursued by a murderous Katy, Jerzy ducks inside a hot dog stand to evade her, much to the surprise of its owner. Katy then uses her powers to crush the restaurant with a collapsing fire escape. Jerzy is seen slipping away unharmed, but the fate of the proprietor is not even mentioned.
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The Visitor / int_8bff32a8	type	Creepy Doll
The Visitor / int_8bff32a8	comment	Creepy Doll: For some reason, Barbara acquires a bird-shaped ornament with a voice chip that makes it croak "I'm a preeetty biiird..." in a garbled, menacing voice. Later, Detective Durham steals it from the house and it starts croaking the phrase over and over again in what is one of the creepiest and most suspenseful scenes of the film.
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The Visitor / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
The Visitor / int_8e5c862	comment	Ancient Conspiracy: Raymond and Dr. Walker are agents of a cabal of wealthy men who follow Zateen and wish for Raymond to sire a brother for Katy, enabling Zateen's return.
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The Visitor / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
The Visitor / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: The council sends Raymond packing when they grow impatient with how long it is taking him to conceive another child with Barbara. He shows up at the end, now intent on killing Barbara for refusing to go along with the plan.
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The Visitor / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Visitor / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Katy, who revels in her evil powers.
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The Visitor / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
The Visitor / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: It probably wasn't necessary for Jerzy to remind his boss - who is heavily implied to be Jesus Christ himself - that they do not believe in killing children. But given that the audience already has enough bizarre stuff to figure out at this point, it was probably a bit of mercy on the filmmaker's part having him do so.
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The Visitor / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Visitor / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Zateen.
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The Visitor / int_9dd0f9bf	type	Acid-Trip Dimension
The Visitor / int_9dd0f9bf	comment	Acid-Trip Dimension: The film's bizarre opening sequence depicts a cosmic encounter between the hero Jerzy and the villan Katy in a vast, storm-filled, multicolored desert where Jerzy watches in horror as Katy slowly transforms from a towering, Grim Reaper-like figure into a menacing abomination of a little girl.
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The Visitor / int_a05522e3	type	Alien Abduction
The Visitor / int_a05522e3	comment	Alien Abduction: although it is quite explicit that they are just humans using a tricked-out semi-truck, the scene where Dr. Walker abducts and surgically impregnates Barbara visually and psychologically reflects this trope in every way.
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The Visitor / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Visitor / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Katy's hawk blinds Detective Durham, causing his car to crash.
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The Visitor / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
The Visitor / int_a2b998a0	comment	Wouldn't Hurt a Child. Yahweh's forces adhere to this policy no matter how evil the child in question may seem. Human followers of Zateen, on the other hand, are not so lucky.
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The Visitor / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Visitor / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The eerie and disturbing abduction scene is followed by a truly uncomfortable scene where the tow truck drivers who find Barbara unconscious in her car is played for laughs.
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The Visitor / int_a7acd9aa	type	ChekhovsLecture
The Visitor / int_a7acd9aa	comment	Chekhov's Lecture: The Big Good mentions in his story that Zateen once had an army of birds that eventually turned against him. This becomes important at the very end.
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The Visitor / int_a8c1433e	type	Dead Star Walking
The Visitor / int_a8c1433e	comment	Dead Star Walking: Glenn Ford as Detective Durham. See Decoy Protagonist below.
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The Visitor / int_aa4fa3d5	type	Ancient Astronauts
The Visitor / int_aa4fa3d5	comment	Ancient Astronauts: Exposition explains that the this story is the latest battle in an ongoing interstellar war between the good forces of Yahweh and the evil forces of "Zateen." Although long-defeated by Yahweh, Zateen managed to sire a large number of offspring on the planet Earth who hold the key to his resurrection if they are not stopped.
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The Visitor / int_b42e16fb	type	Feathered Fiend
The Visitor / int_b42e16fb	comment	Feathered Fiend: Katy's pet hawk. It's so menacing that it basically serves as her Dragon.
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The Visitor / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Visitor / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Katy has some choice four-letter words for Detective Durham when he attempts to interrogate her regarding the accident with the gun. Paige Connor was supposedly quite uncomfortable with having to speak to Glenn Ford in this way during filming.
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The Visitor / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Visitor / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: The story is straightforward enough: a friendly alien comes to Earth to stop an evil one. But the numerous scenes, characters, and trippy sequences that are never explained or just flat-out don't make sense turn this into a very complicated film.
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The Visitor / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Visitor / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The film makes no effort to hide its debt to other films that have inspired it. The opening sequence where a brown-robed Jerzy stares out over the landscape of a desert planet is more than reminiscent of Obi-Wan Kenobi on Tattooine in Star Wars: A New Hope. When Jerzy is then approached by a tall, black-robed figure it calls to mind Obi-Wan's confrontation with Darth Vader later in the same film. The film centers on a demonic child who uses animal attacks and telekinetic powers against her foes, much like The Omen. The Satanic conspiracy attempting to guide said child and gaslight her mother into obedience is a clear nod to Rosemary's Baby. Katy's ability to control birds (and the bird army once controlled by her ancestory Zateen) may be an allusion to Christian lore where one of Satan's titles is "prince of the power of the air."
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The Visitor / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
The Visitor / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Detective Durham, who investigates Katy's accidental shooting of Barbara. He quickly realizes that something isn't right with Katy and is intent upon figuring it out and dealing with her. But she dispatches him with an attack from her pet hawk almost immediately.
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The Visitor / int_e08f3fed	type	Chair Reveal
The Visitor / int_e08f3fed	comment	Chair Reveal: Katy pulls of a nasty one on Barbara at one point.
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The Visitor / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
The Visitor / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Katy
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The Visitor / int_fc33ff16	type	One-Winged Angel
The Visitor / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: Katy ditches subtlety during the climax, attacking in a frenzied, monstrous form with glowing features.
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