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Wavelength [VHS]

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i saw the movie when i was a little girl. i use to have a crush on beta! the ending was the best part however, when the alien ship comes to take them (aliens) away. oh and tangerine dream is awesome! they did a superb job setting the scenes with their melodic sounds.

With the combination of the Tangerine Dream soundtrack and the movie itself, I would say this is one of the best sci-fi movies ever. The storyline is great and the depiction of the military/government reaction was right on! I enjoyed it tremendously. I would recommend it to any sci-fi fan!

Of the few reviews when this movie came out, most concluded Wavelength was better than the cute E.T. I completely agree, and wonder why this movie hasn't been released on DVD. The ending, most often written about reminds us of "Starman", but that's missing the point of this movie that's really about us!

It is a great movie. It should be made available for sale in DVD format.

The two lead characters, assisted by Keenan Wynn, manage to get a group of aliens out of the Los Angeles area to a remote desert location.

Along the way, the aliens see the earthly sights before finally leaving Earth.

Overall the music is excellent, the writing is fairly decent, and the acting, especially by Keenan, is terrific.

Not your typical alien movie but a good movie neverless.

I'm so glad that I was able to come across this movie. I didn't realize it was so rare, but now that I do, I'm glad I was able to find a copy for so cheap! It's a Used former-rental, but it seems to play just fine.

Anyway...I highly recommend this film to any sci-fi movie fans, or even just fans of Tangerine Dream, as the soundtrack is awesome in itself.

In the vein of ET and Starman and somewhat of an inbetween this movie has 80s type script with the expected traditional 80s feel good ending. Worth a watch though PG-13 in the middle with some of the military scenes.

It took me two or three years to finally run across this video. It was said to be in good condition but, I feel it was in excellent condition. Which made me feel great because I had felt the price was far too high for a VHS tape in good condition no matter how rare. Vendor was great: packaged the product well to protect it and delivered in a prompt time frame. Neat movie with a familiar face and a couple I hadn't seen before. The premise is great but, there aren't too many special effects and the aliens were a little disappointing in their humanness. The sets are pretty good and so is the acting but, the story itself is what matters here. Yes, there are underground facilities where the US military industrial complex has black programs to study aliens, thier technology and to use both to our advantage. Of course there's much more to it so, check out this cool fictionalized UFO crash retrieval flick.

A young girl is lured to the Hollywood Hills by eerie whale like sounds that resonate inside her head.
These "signals" are coming from six stories below the earth, underneath the Hollywood Hills, inside a hidden air force base originally designed for nuclear fusion experiments. Now it holds 3 childlike aliens who have crashed landed to earth. There they lay inside cylindrical tombs while scientist conduct experiments that are unsuccessful in proving how they think or even if they are alive. That is until the young girl and her boyfriend break in. Compelled by her uncanny ability to pick up the telepathic signals from these aliens. Aided by an ole miner who originally worked on the construction of the underground fortress and still lives as a hobo near one of the unknown ventilation shafts that lead inside.
Now inside, the couple comes face to face with alien beings. She hears their thoughts, she knows what they want, the officers of the military fortress want these answers. But they are not prepared for what they find out. They decide to seal the fate of the aliens and the intrusive couple, then abandon their post before its too late.

As on3/09 this film not available on DVD. When buying the VHS make sure you don't get the EP mode cheap vers. You want the High End SP mode Release -sideshowvideo

I always think of this movie in terms of being a gentle sci fi movie. When I first saw it (in 1983) I remember that the acting seemed very natural and though it was obvious that the aliens were portrayed by children, well, that was okay, too. The music is the best, and not just the stuff by Tangerine Dream; there was a great song being played in the bar where Bobby and Iris first meet ("No More Lonely Days" was the title), and the snippets that Robert Carradine played were also fun to listen to. I'll always own a copy.