Zontar: The Thing from Venus (1967) on Netflix
Dr. Keith Ritchie, a NASA scientist, tells colleague Dr. Curt Taylor he has contacted Zontar, an alien from Venus who promises to solve the world's problems. Zontar arrives and the power fails.
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Plot summary
A dinner party brings two NASA scientists together, Dr. Keith Ritchie and his colleague Dr. Curt Taylor. Ritchie confides that he has been speaking in secret with a being from Venus named Zontar, who he says will come to Earth and solve the world's problems. The visitor does arrive, riding a fallen laser satellite. Zontar is a skeletal black creature with three eyes and bat wings, and its aims are not the ones Ritchie described. Local power outages stop telephones, cars, and running water. Flying pods sprout from the creature's wings and fasten onto people, taking over their minds, and important officials fall under Zontar's control.
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- Andrew Traisteras Sgt. Magalari
- Jonathan Ledfordas Zone 6 Gate Guard
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Zontar: The Thing from Venus (1967)
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- The film was famously spoofed by SCTV in the Season 4, Cycle 2, Episode 3 sequence also titled "Zontar", originally broadcast on October 30, 1981.
- A fanzine named Zontar, the Magazine from Venus was published in Boston from 1981 to 1992, and it ran an interview with director Larry Buchanan conducted by Ivan Stang.
