The Visitor (1979 film)

"The Visitor" (1979) is a psychological thriller film directed by Giulio Paradisi, based on a story by the Egyptian writer Ovidio G. Assonitis, and starring John Huston, Shelley Winters, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, and Sam Peckinpah. Prominent Libertarian talk-show host Neal Boortz also had a role in the movie. Steve Somers also appears in the movie.

The plot involved a young girl with telekinetic powers who was the focus of a battle between good and evil. The film-making involved a great deal of symbolism, with an attempt to be an art film, though it ultimately received poor reviews by the mainstream critics. The film has been called a rip-off of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Damien: Omen II, because the film revolves around a dispute between extraterrestrials from heaven and demonic forces. "The Visitor" has also been criticized by audiences, who claim the film's cover art (featuring a bizarre, alien-like being hovering over a city) was misleading, because the said images did not appear, nor were referenced in the film. The film was written and produced by prolific Italian-American filmmaker, Ovidio G. Assonitis, who was known for making rip-offs of Hollywood blockbusters.

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