The Visitor (1979 film)


The Visitor is a 1979 ItalianAmerican science fiction horror film directed by Giulio Paradisi credited onscreen as Michael J. Paradise and based on a story by the Egyptborn Italian writer and producer Ovidio G. Assonitis. The film stars include John Huston, Shelley Winters, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford and Sam Peckinpah with supporting appearances by Neal Boortz, Steve Somers, Paige Conner, and Kareem AbdulJabbar.

The film opens with vague impressions of nature and supernatural forces before centering on a Christlike figure telling a story to a group of bald pupils, most of whom are children. He tells a story about cosmic forces in conflict. In particular, he warns about the threat of Sateen, an evil interspacial force of immense magnitude. The film cuts to The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia where two fictional teams are playing a basketball game. The owner of the Atlanta team, Raymond Armstead Lance Henriksen, sits courtside and promises an interviewer that the team will win at all costs. Since Raymond is a new owner and the source of his wealth is unknown, the interviewer presses him on the source of his wealth. He eventually answers that the money comes from God.Raymond is later seen visiting a mansion where a group of men sit at a conference table. At the head of the table, Dr. Walker Mel Ferrer, tells Raymond that the group has invested a lot of money in Raymond. He reminds Raymond that his girlfriend, Barbara Collins Joanne Nail, is unique among women because her womb possesses the power to transmit Sateens cosmic force into human form. Her 8year old daughter Katy Paige Connor has already demonstrated telekinetic powers, and the committees goal is to have Raymond father a male child with Barbara. The male child would eventually mate with his halfsister Katy and help establish the reign of Sateen. ........

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