The Visitor 4K 1979

In the late 70s and throughout the 80s, Italy began producing high-quality trash films. In the 60s, they shot westerns and slasher films, passing them off as American productions, and sometimes they turned out quite well, giving rise to a couple of good genres such as giallo and spaghetti westerns. Then, in the 70s, the Italians took up science fiction and action films. The Visitor is an attempt by our Italian friends to cash in on the popular theme of The Omen series of films.

And if the Omen was a spawn of Satan, a mystical phenomenon unrelated to sci-fi, then in the Italians' version, the child turned out to be the descendant of an alien, who somehow impregnated an Earth woman (how is not revealed). In The Omen, it is a boy, in The Visitor, it is a capricious teenage girl who can bend tower cranes with a single glance and turn trinkets into loaded pistols.

The girl is capricious and spoiled, and as a result, her loved ones and friends suffer. Upon learning of her power, very bad people and those same aliens begin to hunt her.

It's all a bit boring, my friends. The tension of The Omen could not be replicated. The girl plays well, it's strange that her acting career didn't take off and now she does manicures in Atlanta. A couple of good actors appear here, such as Lance Henriksen (Cyborg Bishop from Aliens). But overall, it's boring and unimpressive. However, there is one interesting scene here, very reminiscent of a similar scene in King's The Dark Half.