Review – Not of This Earth

It’s like Roger Corman used chalk to write “homage,” “rip-off,” “remake” and “parody” in squares on a playground and then spent the next 80 minutes playing hopscotch on them. Traci Lords stars as a nurse hired to care for a weird guy who turns out to be a vampire from outer space. The picture uses a plot and title from a 1957 Corman production and sprinkles in footage from the producer’s other work (including a fairly lengthy passage boosted almost unchanged from Humanoids from the Deep and grafted awkwardly into this story). The result is more of a lesson in shoestring budget work rather than quality horror cinema. See if desperate