![]() ![]() ![]() Rochelle to diagnose his strange blood disease, and nurse Nadine Story to give him the regular transfusions that will keep him from drying up. While on his mission, he enlists the help of Doctor F.W. ![]() He and the people on his home planet of Davanna are all dying of a disease that causes their blood to evaporate, and he is on the hunt for a fresh supply to bring home. Instead, we have a seemingly eccentric old man who is actually a spy from another world. To its credit, this space vampire saga doesn’t merely put Bela Lugosi in a space suit. ![]() In this case, the first two darts landed on “space” and “vampire.” There was no need to throw a third. Not of This Earth is an early example of a premise conceivably determined by the proverbial writer’s room dartboard. In this case, though, I decided to watch three different versions of the same movie, which itself was originally part of a theatrical double feature. I might watch a string of sequels, a pair of films with a thematic link, or the collected works of one director. Of course, in this day and age, I’m able to curate my own double (or triple, or quadruple) features in the privacy of my own home, which I do often. There is little I enjoy quite as much as spending an entire afternoon in a movie theater, so I often lament the fact that I missed out on the heyday of the double feature. ![]()
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