That Star Trek: The Motion Picture was a box office success and launched a film franchise is hard to believe in retrospect. The jab “Star Trek: The Motionless Picture” is all too true. There are many reasons: in the late seventies, Paramount was working on Star Trek: Phase Two, a new television series that was prematurely aborted. A one-hour television episode V’Ger story was hurriedly expanded into a feature film after the unexpected success of Star Wars. The rest of the movie’s running time is filled with a large, nebulous cloud of pointlessness.

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Okay… this is a truly strange cult classic. It’s a black and white horror film starring William Shatner. Plus, all the dialogue is in Esperanto (an invented language, intended to be understandable worldwide).

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With Halloween coming up, here’s a horror film I just watched: The Devil’s Rain, starring several famous folks, Tom Skerrit, Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, and the incomparable William Shatner.

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