Product Details

• Actors: Robert Culp, Salome Jens
• Directors: Gerd Oswald
• Format: Black & White, NTSC, Dolby, HiFi Sound
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM /UA Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 51 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301967348
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #475,991 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely One of the Best, October 8, 2000

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Kaina (NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Outer Limits: Corpus Earthling [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of my favorite two episodes ever of the Outer Limits. While the plot isn't the best (alien rocks taking over people) and the effects pale in the current age of technology, the *story* is incredible--it's not about the aliens, and it's not about the science, it's about FEAR. Fear, and love, and hope, and despair, and all the things that make us people. And in addition to that, it's excellently filmed--high production value, incredible lighting and camera work, superb acting (Robert Culp and Salome Jens are just *cute* as young marrieds.) Joseph Stephano is quoted as saying he didn't think it would be so Scary, and it is. But it's not scary because of the idea or the effects, it's scary because the people are scared, and that comes across on the screen.

If you liked this one, also check out "Demon With a Glass Hand"--again, starring Robert Culp (ok, i happen to like Culp. Mea Culpa). Heavy on story, well-done enough that the more obvious plot holes can be overlooked, decent action quotient, and really good characters.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Invasion of the living-rocks, May 10, 1999

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Thomas Rucki (Paris, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Outer Limits: Corpus Earthling [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"Rocks : silent, inanimate objects torn from the Earth's ancient crust, yielding up to Man over the long centuries all that is known of the planet on which we live; withholding from Man forever their veiled secrets of the nature of matter and cosmic catastrophe, the secrets of other worlds in the vastness of the universe... of other forms of life... of strange organisms beyond the imagination of Man..." Two alien rocks are on the verge of invading Earth by penetrating and controlling human bodies. But, Dr. Paul Cameron accidentally heard them talking about their plan. This is the most oppressive tale of the entire series. The claustrophobic idea of being possessed is a direct reference to "Invasion of the body snatchers". The first draft was about cats' invasion and was changed to rocks, owing to its realistic frightening appeal over the children audience. The gorgeous and pre-"Seconds" Salome Jens and Robert Culp, playing the overanxious Paul Cameron, are excellent. This particular episode has a "Carnivals of soul/The night of the living-dead" flavor because of the Barry Atwater's morbid character. Above all, I like the Mexican magic mood. The Conrad Hall's dark cinematography is once again top-notch. Watch the anti-happy end out. Here is my favourite paranoid episode among "O.B.I.T.", "Nightmare" and "The invisibles". "Two black crystalline rocks. Unclassifiable. Objects on the border between the living and the non-living. A reminder of the thin line that separates the animate from the inanimate. Something to ponder on-something to stay the hand when it reaches out innocently for the whitened pebble, the veined stone, the dead, unmoving rocks of our planet."

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rock Me, Baby!, March 26, 2002

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Bruce Rux (Aurora, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Outer Limits: Corpus Earthling [VHS] (VHS Tape)

OL's scariest offering, decidedly unsettling, with the most claustrophobic atmosphere of a claustrophobically atmospheric series.

Robert Culp turns in one of his typically magnificent performances (to my thinking, his best) as an average guy who desperately wants to believe he is just paranoid and hearing voices that aren't really there. Because he only hears the voices in the geology lab. And there are only rocks there. Right? Unless - oh, surely not (what are the chances?) - some of the rocks in the lab are not what they appear to be, and are really some kind of alien super-viruses. And the alien super-viruses are aware of the fact that Culp is listening. And he poses a threat to their invasion plan. Which means...well, I guess they'll just have to kill him, won't they?

This one works precisely because of the preposterousness of the idea of "talking rocks." Culp's performance is phenomenal, teetering between sanity and psychotic breakdown, as he gradually learns that, just because you're paranoid, that doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Charming wife Salome Jens wants to believe him but can't (would you?), and finds out the hard way that Culp isn't crazy, after all. So does geologist Barry Atwater, who is violently attacked by the aforementioned super-viruses which of course can't possibly exist. A creepy Mexican shaman, who knows from the outset Culp is sane, adds to the shudders.

For horror fans, not to be missed. Adapted by series producer Joe Stefano and Orin Borstein from an obscure paperback original of the same name by Louis Charbonneau. (Which I have read, and which is not as good as this episode.)