The first time I had the opportunity to see this goofy assed film was some years back,on an all night cult films program called 'Night Flight', that was carried by the USA Network. The plot seemed to be something of a Science Fiction satire about an alien invasion of the Earth by a character called 'The Lightning Bug',who planned on destroying Earth with Rock & Roll, and later drugs. Okay...a premise for a cheap.low budget cheese ball of a late night film, I thought. What really got me was the fact that it was (mostly)made up of clips from various movie serials of the late 1930's, to the early 1950's,with new overdubbed dialog (which also included some new footage,also shot in black & white). What makes this film even better is that the script is written by two ex-Firesign Theater members (Phil Proctor & Peter Bergman,who also appear in the film). This seems to be the kind of film that would have benefited from being screened at cinemas that specialized in midnight movies (especially with an audience that is baked to the nines). I'm not 100% sure if this has been released on DVD as of yet, but maybe you can dredge up a used VHS video copy either at a used video outlet (if you can still find one that's still in business---curse you,Netflix!),or maybe even on E-Bay. Happy hunting. Rated PG by the MPAA, this film contains some rude language,drug humour & mature subject matter
Review of The Day the Earth Got Stoned
