Mysteries From Beyond Earth — Mysteries From Beyond Earth(DVD)

Mysteries From Beyond Earth is a mid-70s UFO/ mystery documentary- with a fair bit of charm & quirkiness about it. Here from the resurrectors of lost/ forgotten films Cheezy Movies is a region-free/ bare-bones DVD release of the film.

Mysteries From Beyond Earth is an American production from 1975- with a fairly lengthy-for-a-documentary runtime of one hour and thirty-four minutes, though it( largely) remains engaging/ entertaining.

It was directed by Budapest-born George Gale.  He had only three other directorial credits to his name- UFO Fact Or Fiction (1974), Animals Are The Craziest People (1974), and Are We Alone In The Universe (1978).  Though he also had seventy-two post-production credits-  going from low-budget fare such as PumpkinHead  II: Blood Wings (1993), to more big-budget fare such as Rambo (2008).

The film opens up with footage of an off in the distant earth & a superimposed whizzing UFO by - as the first few paragraphs of  H.G Well’s  War Of The Worlds are read. We then meet our host Lawrence Dobkin- a neatly trimmed bearded man dressed in a brown suit jacket with a black ‘n’ white cravat. 

The focus moves to discussing how the pyramids, Stone Hedge, and a few other structures may have been built with the help of aliens. Moving onto talking about Atlantis, and how it might have been peopled by those from another world.

We get recreations of military UFO sightings- using rather wavery put-together stock footage montages. There are a few interviews with those who claimed to have encountered UFOs/aliens including Charles Hickson- who said he & his buddy were abducted by shivery see-through aliens while fishing in Pascagoula, Mississippi in 1973.

This being the 1970s, we do of course get some wonderful wacky & bizarre theories- for example, the earth is hollow, with enter ways on either poles- with this inner world having its own climate & seasons!. 

Moving onto this DVD release, and like all Cheezy Movies releases it’s very barebones affair- with just a trailer reel. The scan we have here is clear enough- though it's just a step up from VHS, with a fair bit of audio hiss appearing from time to time.

All in all Mysteries From Beyond Earth is an entertaining, at points wacky 70’s doc- which will appeal to those who enjoy similar fare. I do hope we get some more docs from Cheezy Movies down the line