Joe Dante made a 4.5-hour fever dream from TV static and Cold War paranoia.
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Editing
Dante's surgical chaos—thousands of clips become one hallucination.
Production
Pre-digital found footage, physically spliced from actual film cans.
Director
Joe Dante
Ann-Margret
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
John Lennon
Self (archive footage)
Paul McCartney
Self (archive footage)
George Harrison
Self (archive footage)
Ringo Starr
Self (archive footage)
Walter Brennan
Self (archive footage)
Walter Cronkite
Self (archive footage)
Bing Crosby
Self (archive footage)
Phyllis Diller
Self (archive footage)
Dave Garroway
Self (archive footage)
Arthur Godfrey
Self (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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