Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind

This is the kind of movie that will give you horrible nightmares for weeks and weeks to come.

This movie is a parody of Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of a Third Kind"

"Closet Cases" is an extremely stupid short film parody.

But I recommend that you watch it because it is a very bad movie.

I regret that we didn't have a vcr when this movie was on HBO constantly when I was 13. I would have loved to tape it. I can't find it anywhere. I did however, just find "fish heads" and "the java junkie" at a library. I taped them. I wish I could find closet cases. it was a family fave.

I rated this film an "excellent" rating primarily because this was such an unusual film when I first saw this. Yes, I saw this first when I was 15. Oh well.....

Granted, this was a very crudely made and not very well produced film. However I'm sure that the filmmakers were quite aware of this. For their part, what they lacked in production value they made up, in spades, was in originality. This was an era that was before the internet, and before digital video. This, in retrospect, was not really "cheaply made". I'm sure, (from personal experience), that whenever anyone sneezed, it was a production "setback"!! Ha ha! However, these guys truly loved what they were spoofing and it shows. I'm sure they wouldn't have made this if they weren't passionate about the source material. Very funny stuff, especially for those who were there when the original Spielberg classic came out that rainy weekend (in Hollywood-Cinerama Dome).

Great stuff!

It hearkens back to the time when the "mysterious" making of films were a passion for a lot of film fans (as myself) out there and how many of us were desperately waiting for the next film or films of some of our generations' best filmmakers. Again, films such as this, while a parody, brings back how skillful the filmmakers of the 70's and 80's were so insightful to make such a serious approach to the entertainment of the film fans of the time (and of the future).

Thanks for reading!

For those 40somethings, you may remember this film. For those younger film fans, hopefully you will see an insight of how the SF/Fantasy/Horror film fans of this era were looking to the future and how the more fantastic stories were within the realm of reality (as it is now) for future films, even now. Cheers everyone!

p.s. I don't expect ANYONE to actually read this review. Ha ha! :-)

Saw this short back in the early 80's, and loved it! (still have it on an aging VHS after taping it from TV way back then...)

My brother and I still quote from it to this day!

A brilliant parody of "Close Encounters" and wonderfully silly. Great "bad" acting throughout, and you won't be able to hear the that five tone alien greeting without a grin after this...

A couple favorite quotes:

(after seeing the number 3.14159 being repeated on the computer screen) "It just keeps saying the same thing....huh...it just keeps saying the same thing!" "Wait! I was a mathematician before I became a bad actor, that number is pi!"

"hmmmm..this means something..."

Also see Hardware Wars, Porklips Now, and Bambi vs Godzilla, all available on a tape from Pyramid films, this was the most amazing and clever and well produced of all the parodies, almost as good as the MTV parody of Se7en starring William Shatner. Fun fun.