1979 • Italy • Directed by Giulio Paradisi

You may think you've seen it all, but nothing can prepare you for The Visitor, an excursion into the realms of cinematic insanity! Producer extraordinaire Ovidio G. Assonitis, creator of such delicious guilty pleasures as Beyond the Door and Tentacles, brings together an extraordinary ensemble cast in a mind-bending tale of a girl and her pet hawk. Killer birds! Psychokinesis! Satanic conspiracies! Exploding basketball hoops! Any attempt to explain the exact plot of The Visitor is an exercise in futility, but in the maelstrom of madness and mayhem is the tale of an ancient intergalactic entity capable of bearing Earthly children endowed with great powers. Powers which some are keen to harness and some to destroy. 8-year old Katy Collins is one such child, and as her powers emerge, the battle for her soul is about to begin.

A bizarre collision of The Omen with Close Encounters, The Exorcist, and the work of Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Visitor is a veritable cult phenomenon that combines stunning imagery and breathtaking set-pieces with a jaw-dropping cast that includes John Huston (Chinatown), Mel Ferrer (War and Peace), Glen Ford (Superman), Shelley Winters (The Night of the Hunter), Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch)… and Franco Nero (Django himself!) as Jesus!