I do NOT OWN this. I am uploading to share. William Sebastian (Robert Culp) is a former criminologist who now studies the occult to explain the problem of human evil.
I have been searching for this movie for over 30 years. Thank you for sharing it. Robert Culp was one of our finest actors, writers, directors and all things entertainment
Thanks Jim! I'm just a huge Robert Culp fan, period. Got the "I Spy" DVDs as soon as they were available and love watching the episodes with Culps commentary.
I am surprised to see that no one mentioned that this movie was conceived and written by Gene Roddenberry and his wife had a small part in it. It just shows how versatile Gene was, and that he was much than just Star Trek fame.
Would a space based TV show that delved into the supernatural work? Robert Bloch, a long time friend of HP Lovecraft, wrote the one with spooky castle, although he hated the lame ending with the stupid puppets, but I think and occult sci-fi show in space would seem interesting indeed.
I got an invitation with other fans by gene roddenberry to see the filming of this.i stood next to robert culp and saw penny irving.gene roddenberry and majel Barrett were very kind. It has been on t.v but rarely seen now.
First saw this as a youngling, gave me the heebee-jeebees for weeks. What a creepy premise. I'm amazed the remake/reboot crowd hasn't jumped all over it. Excellent material rendered by a first rate cast with taut direction and a cinematic eye (for the time and intended screen) makes this a true entertainment find. I love this movie and have since the early 1980's. 🔥👹🔥✌️🖖
I happen to know a thing or two about witchcraft and I can say this is pretty accurate. I think there are people in Hollywood who don’t want this kind of secret knowledge coming out. That’s why you don’t see movies like this anymore. One exception is the movie Nefarious.
Thank you for sharing this. As others have said I saw this as a kid and have tried for years to find it. Searches for combinations of the Druid's Fire Pit and Asmodeus long before google without success. It was a comment on an Io9 story that lead me to it. It was better than I remembered, I think it would be a great story for a remake.
Major fan of Robert Culp starting with I-Spy. Spectre was a favorite movie of mine when I was little and loved when it would pop up on tv. Thank you for sharing!
I saw this movie once on television in 1977. Gene Roddenberry wanted to have another hit television series on his hands following the success of Star Trek. Interesting concept. Criminology meets the occult. I Spy meets Doctor Strange. A unique combination of horror, mystery and fantasy. But I guess NBC didn't want to go over budget with its television projects during the 1970s. Unfortunate this pilot didn't inspire a series. It would have been good. I certainly liked the cast. Robert Culp. Gig Young. Majel Barrett. John Hurt. James Villiers. RIP to them all.
I've just started watching it, and I thought that was Majel! I was wondering if it was a TV pilot. Thanks for answering my questions. Now, back to the show!
@yogafire You and I both, I was looking it up on IMDB, then could not remember the name and googled Robert Culp and the occult. Once I had the name I checked it out on youtube.
i remember seeing this movie in 1973. which of course surprised me that it was supposedly released in 1977. suggesting that i must have seen the movie in an alternate dimension.
I remember seeing this. I'm surprised it didn't get made into a series as it is really good. It has that 'Holmes and Watson' type partnership which works well. This must be one of Gig Youngs last roles before his mysterious murder/suicide.
Dang! Left me wanting a sequel! Good movie, great acting from the ‘70’s. Poor Gig Young committed suicide the year after this was made. Perhaps that was why no series or sequel was done.
Me too, I feel the same way. You know this was made as a pilot for a series also there is a book made at the time a novel of the movie by Robert Weverka.
@@bookman60 I thought Gig Young killed himself and his wife after he had completed the movie The Game of Death in Hong Kong around 79 or 80 I was in the Navy at the time and read it in a newspaper and the movie was mentioned.
I have been looking for this movie for years. I had seenit years ago with my late father one Saturday night and thought that it was marvelous!! I believe that it was meant to be a pilot for a series and now, as a grownup, I wish that it had been produced. It would fit in these days with not only science-fiction but the Comic-Con crowd.I always had a crush on Robert Culp and try to find his motion pictures and made for tv movies. If you are old enough to know who Gig Young is, WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!
Gig Young is laid to rest in a county not too far from my home county, Kelly B. His family has a plot there, it seems. I have heard that he was suffering melanoma when the tragedy with im occurred, but am unsure of this last.
This was a pilot for a series which, I think, NBC failed to pick up, possibly CBS.I saw it on its original broadcast - they edited out much of the semi-nudity then which has been restored. It was 1977 after all. A shame they didn't go to series. It could have been a fine one, I think. Many thanks for sharing this!
I saw this movie many years ago during my childhood in my old black and white television, in these years didn't exit the color in the TV channels of my country!!! Nice movie. After seeing the movie I couldn't sleep because I was afraid!!!!!😂
Try the The Night Stalker 1972 and Norliss Tapes 1973 the Occult detective pilot was tried several times all three were Great the last attempt was Salems lot 1979 a classic
This was a teaser of a movie that was, I think, a pilot for a series. I still wish they'd take the characters and make the series. Especially now that we have better effects and so many TV and other channels that could produce this supernatural type detective series. Great concept and nasty demon. We've only recently begun to have similar type demons as bad guys in our movies. Fun old made for TV movie.
It would have been a very interesting series, I think. But especially with the nudity, in 1977 it could never have been done. It was years too early for HBO, Netflix, etc.
Movies like this were not so sensationalized like they are now. The cinematography, the script, the plot and sub-plot twists, the acting all played a part in making things more subtle just as the subject matter which was treated in these older movies were subtle. Unlike today's movies. And the subject matter was informed by research into such things as the occult to help establish a kind of authority and the possibility of realism, not the make things up as you go bullshit we see know in today's horror movies.
Movies like this were not so sensationalized like they are now. The cinematography, the script, the plot and sub-plot twists, the acting all played a part in making things more subtle just as the subject matter which was treated in these older movies were subtle. Unlike today's movies. And the subject matter was informed by research into such things as the occult to help establish a kind of authority and the possibility of realism, not the make things up as you go bullshit we see know in today's over-sensationalized horror movies. The acting in today's movies are questionable because the actors themselves possess a lack of character, that is to say many are too young, immature and rudderless and lack proper guidance to begin with. Special effects - with exception to the over-emphasis on cgi which also lacks both the subtlety of what is natural, supernatural and organic, capturing very little sense of realism to anchor the phantasmagoric in - and other enhancements should only be secondary or as only a modification to the themes that are treated in good horror movies.
@sledge hammer- There were so many made for tv movies that were great fun. Lots of horror and scifi. I think all 3 networks had their own made for tv movies. I was a teen too when I first saw this. It would make a great tv show now. Funny I was thinking that for the much delayed Greatest American Hero remake Bruce Campbell would make a kick ass Bill Maxwell,Robert Culp's FBI agent character. I wonder if the same would apply to Bruce playing Bill's Sebastian
@sledge hammer But the story was good so gore wasn't needed. Gargoyles was another cool movie as was the unforgettable Trilogy of Terror with everyone's favorite Zuni warrior doll. And William Shatner did Nightmare at 30,000 feet to cash in on the Exorcist.
@sledge hammer I'm in the middle of making a Zuni warrior for a friend that hosts horror movies. I figured that she could you a skit about it when the chain falls off and it animates. It's funny the Six Million Dollar Man also started out as a movie of the week and got great ratings. So did Man From Atlantis and V. I liked the Lizzy Bordon movie that I think CBS did with Elizabeth Montgomery as Lizzie. Salem's Lot and The Last Dinosaur I remember. And the real funny thing was The Bermuda Depths became a sort of online cult movie with discussion groups and web sites devoted to it. My grandfather's favorite was Killdozer since he was a heavy machinery mechanic and welder and he had his own bulldozer. TV will never quite be as fun or entertaining as those days. I mean when else would you see Kiss Meets The Phantom but in the 70's.
@sledge hammer It's too bad the lure of easy money killed local TV stations with infomercials and later the dread reality TV shows. I remember rushing off the bus from first grade so I'd get ready in time for the afternoon movie when they had Giant Monster week. The next day in school we were all excitedly talking about how Godzilla kicked the crap out of King Ghidorah or Gamera nearly getting his leg cut off by Gyaos' sonic cutter beam. Funny that you mentioned scuba diving. My friend was a scuba diver so one night he decided on us going on a night dive in Lake Ontario. Not only was this my first night dive but my first time scuba diving period.He had a yoke set up on his tank so we each had our own regulator. I already knew all the safety basics like never hold your breath or just shoot to the surface from any appreciable depth if you didn't want nitrogen narcosis. All those episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea were finally paying off. So we wrapped a couple crappy flashlights up in Saran Wrap and into the murky depth we went. You can't see much of anything on a night dive in Lake Ontario especially with our sad excuses for lights. I had a big carp swim right up yo my diving mask attracted by the light. He wasn't at all alarmed until I tapped him on the head.
It would be impossible for a reboot/re-imagining/remake/retelling of the uncensored version of Gene Roddenberry's Spectre in the present. With the Disney Corporation owning 20th Century Fox Pictures and 20th Century Fox Television, Disney Pictures and Disney Television would never, ever make an action-adventure/crime drama/dark, adult fantasy/horror live action movie or live action T.V. series that has adult themes, brief nudity, sexual situations and violence. This story is just way too dark, grim and gritty. It would be the equivalent of either a Rated R theatrical film or a Rated T.V.-M.A. Cable television show on H.B.O. Disney will never go dark so they will not allow it. And even if it could be hypothetically updated into a much more modernized and contemporary version of the story, with the way that Hollywood has become completely soy woke, the early 21st century version of Gene Roddenberry's Spectre would be accused of being racist for having an all-white cast, sexist for having women show their breasts, and homophobic for not having any gay characters. Even if it was partly made by the B.B.C. because it was filmed entirely on location at the U.K., they would change the entire cast into an all-black cast, the women would be the main characters and everyone would be gay. So in a way, while it is unfortunate that a good horror movie like this one had never become a series back in 1977, I'm kinda sorta glad that this story was also never remade into a new version today because that shit would get totally ruined by S.J.W./N.P.C. Politically Correct outrage culture bullshit.
Used to watch re-airs of this on TV in the late 70's and early 80's. Love it as a kid. In my young mind I associated shows and movies like this to literary fiction like Saloozy, a short story by Margery Lawrence in Andre Norton's "Small Shadows Creep", featuring a character that appeared in other similar stories akin to Culp's in this, and later channeled this when gamemastering sessions of Pacesetter's Chill horror RPG.
There are some good people associated with this film. But, sadly, because it's written & produced by Gene Roddenberry, that means Majel Barrett is in it too....... :( You may remember her as the plank of wood left in charge of 'Enterprise' when Jeffrey Hunter went onto the planet in the Star Trek pilot., and later as Nurse Chappell during the series proper.
Where did you get the Unedited Version I've been trying to get it on DVD for years? I downloaded the only available version from somebody who video taped it from ''The Sci-Fy Channel in 1986 with Robert England braking in with the commercials. This must be from the BBC or Channel 4 in England.
''SPECTRE 1977'' I know you said you up loaded this version, but were did you get this version from? I'm trying to buy this unedited version. I found on e-bay this movie sold as a DVD-R all Regions. I asked the person who is selling copy's of the film in England were the movie was filmed, He said ''I believe it is the edited version. So again were did this version come from?
I've been looking for this movie forever literally the last 30 years and didn't know the name of it. I saw it in 1977 when I wasn't supposed to (I was 3) lol and remembered it ever since
I must admit that from the 70s this was good as some of his other projects were. This was the time that Roddenberry was seeking a new franchise and making pilots for TV. However Paramount (NBC at the time) poisoned the well so to speak. It was hot until Star Trek and kept making money and Star Wars came out and made a BILLION Dollars that all was forgiven between Roddenberry and Paramount.
And now that I've sat through this, given my first impression at its Stateside network premiere with interminable commercial interruptions even then...well, they tried. This was the theatrical release, the customary fate of failed TV series pilots though not necessarily indicative of poor quality. Edit the naughty bits and you likely see what was broadcast. For what they could get away with, British quality is evident. Clive Donner directs, and Culp is perfectly cast. I think I glimpse the old woman from the Overlook Hotel Room 237 among the demon worshippers. Had this "sold" as a series the setting would likely have shifted to Stateside, the principal antagonist's return would doubtless have been muted for fear of the network censors, and we'd have seen more of Lilith and less of poor Gig Young. Still, give 'em credit for making do with what today simply can no longer be left (or trusted?) to the imagination.
Jim Smith thanks Jim. Im watching it now. I really was fascinated by this film when I was 8. It was rare when it was on TV. But I will assume this version was shown as a theatrical feature instead of the US TV version since the Fox fanfare comes before opening credits. That and many other things that would not pass US Censors.
This film is well researched on the occult. It may seem like fiction but I think they do form into succubus, incubus, and other names mentioned in this film. At the core they are Jinn's made of smokeless fire or plasma. Commonly they shapeshift into werewolves with red eyes. I have seen them. In America they are called skinwalker's or dogman. They especially reside in the native American soil or a place called wadi-e jinn in the middle east and live for thousands of years.
The elite put their evil idealolgies into movies and label it as science fiction whilst calling occult rituals "Science"... it goes right over peoples heads.. they have no idea.
Thanks. I'll see an extra showing of a 20th Century Fox movie ...etc .. .or tell me where to send my $3 rental. I guess I was 16 and in HS when this came out and intrigued as a Trekker/ie and going to the conventions.
I don't think Gig Young would've lasted if it was made into a series . He seems to be disinterested in the part he's playing . You can see how off the acting between them is . It's like Robert Culp is trying to pull teeth as far as getting any emotion out of him . It makes Roberts performance look mechanical .
Ken opalus Gig Young's drinking was completely out of control. You can see it throughout the film. He was a good professional actor who by now was drunk all the time.
Darn. Eight minutes in and his scar is a what? "Not normal scar tissue" - it was MADE to stop beating. It's in a doll. I know you're a drunk but you've got to come on a trip to hold me down cuz this thing with my heart...and the housekeeper is doing something. And a lady with a fur-coat who ain't all that but apparently stops the show when she enters the room. It's 8 minutes in I don't what the hell is going on and i'm going to another movie! LOL The ONLY thing I found fascinating was the apartment in the first scene is decorated like it's 2020 - which means we need to go back to some traditional, cozy, attractive decor instead of imitating 1977 futuristic visions!
Enjoyable film, although the ending was dragged out a bit--Gig Young and Robert Culp made a godd team--Of course , no more future pairings of these two were possible since alcoholic Gig Young killed his girlfriend and then killed himself
I have been searching for this movie for over 30 years. Thank you for sharing it. Robert Culp was one of our finest actors, writers, directors and all things entertainment
Congratulations, now you found it.
Wow, Produced by Gene Roddenberry, with Majel playing Lilith. Even has John Hurt. What a find! Thank you for sharing this.
You are welcome
What a steal, you mean. He stole this, and those who watch it are just as much POS thieves as he is.
Thank you for posting this. I spent years trying to find this movie that I watched when I was a child…
You are welcome.
This is the best movie I've seen in a long time. The writing appeals to a more intelligent viewer, and the elements are timed perfectly.
Love Robert Culp, always so cocky and confident. Thanks!
Thanks Jim! I'm just a huge Robert Culp fan, period. Got the "I Spy" DVDs as soon as they were available and love watching the episodes with Culps commentary.
Ron Larocque Robert Culp was a brilliant actor! He is a 100 times better than today’s actors
I am surprised to see that no one mentioned that this movie was conceived and written by Gene Roddenberry and his wife had a small part in it. It just shows how versatile Gene was, and that he was much than just Star Trek fame.
Would a space based TV show that delved into the supernatural work? Robert Bloch, a long time friend of HP Lovecraft, wrote the one with spooky castle, although he hated the lame ending with the stupid puppets, but I think and occult sci-fi show in space would seem interesting indeed.
I got an invitation with other fans by gene roddenberry to see the filming of this.i stood next to robert culp and saw penny irving.gene roddenberry and majel Barrett were very kind. It has been on t.v but rarely seen now.
@@briscoethecollie1510 i think you are referring to the star trek episode catspaw.
@@barriewright6727 It's on RUclips and Dailymotion now, so watch it while you can.
@@barriewright6727 Robert Culp never appeared on Star Trek
First saw this as a youngling, gave me the heebee-jeebees for weeks. What a creepy premise. I'm amazed the remake/reboot crowd hasn't jumped all over it.
Excellent material rendered by a first rate cast with taut direction and a cinematic eye (for the time and intended screen) makes this a true entertainment find.
I love this movie and have since the early 1980's. 🔥👹🔥✌️🖖
I happen to know a thing or two about witchcraft and I can say this is pretty accurate. I think there are people in Hollywood who don’t want this kind of secret knowledge coming out. That’s why you don’t see movies like this anymore. One exception is the movie Nefarious.
I remember seeing this on NBC over 40yrs ago. A treat to find this.
Thank you for sharing this. As others have said I saw this as a kid and have tried for years to find it. Searches for combinations of the Druid's Fire Pit and Asmodeus long before google without success. It was a comment on an Io9 story that lead me to it. It was better than I remembered, I think it would be a great story for a remake.
Major fan of Robert Culp starting with I-Spy. Spectre was a favorite movie of mine when I was little and loved when it would pop up on tv. Thank you for sharing!
I saw this when I was a teenager 40 years ago on Channel 4 in Miami Florida. Thanks for bringing it back.
Thank you for sharing this fantastic blast from the past, Jim!
Thank you so much for the upload. Never had seen this movie and I really enjoyed it! Thank you again...
The house in the beginning is so nice
RIP Robert Culp, Gig Young and now John Hurt.......
Never saw this before - stellar cast! Robert Culp, Gig Young, and John Hurt!
Another great classic love Robert Culp to. Thanks for posting this here
I wish this had gone on to be a series!
I saw this movie once on television in 1977. Gene Roddenberry wanted to have another hit television series on his hands following the success of Star Trek. Interesting concept. Criminology meets the occult. I Spy meets Doctor Strange. A unique combination of horror, mystery and fantasy. But I guess NBC didn't want to go over budget with its television projects during the 1970s. Unfortunate this pilot didn't inspire a series. It would have been good. I certainly liked the cast. Robert Culp. Gig Young. Majel Barrett. John Hurt. James Villiers. RIP to them all.
Yeah, almost everyone associated with this little classic is deceased now, sadly enough. Makes me feel my own age.
I've just started watching it, and I thought that was Majel! I was wondering if it was a TV pilot. Thanks for answering my questions. Now, back to the show!
OMG! I have been trying to find this movie for ever! So cool Thank you.
You are welcome.
@yogafire You and I both, I was looking it up on IMDB, then could not remember the name and googled Robert Culp and the occult. Once I had the name I checked it out on youtube.
i remember seeing this movie in 1973. which of course surprised me that it was supposedly released in 1977. suggesting that i must have seen the movie in an alternate dimension.
I remember seeing this. I'm surprised it didn't get made into a series as it is really good. It has that 'Holmes and Watson' type partnership which works well. This must be one of Gig Youngs last roles before his mysterious murder/suicide.
Robert Culp was so fine!! RIP, My Crush!!
Dang! Left me wanting a sequel! Good movie, great acting from the ‘70’s. Poor Gig Young committed suicide the year after this was made. Perhaps that was why no series or sequel was done.
Me too, I feel the same way. You know this was made as a pilot for a series also there is a book made at the time a novel of the movie by Robert Weverka.
@@bookman60 I thought Gig Young killed himself and his wife after he had completed the movie The Game of Death in Hong Kong around 79 or 80 I was in the Navy at the time and read it in a newspaper and the movie was mentioned.
@@jamescampbell39 yes it was 1978
@@bookman60 so did he do Spectre first then Game of Death or the other way around?
I have been looking for this movie for years. I had seenit years ago with my late father one Saturday night and thought that it was marvelous!! I believe that it was meant to be a pilot for a series and now, as a grownup, I wish that it had been produced. It would fit in these days with not only science-fiction but the Comic-Con crowd.I always had a crush on Robert Culp and try to find his motion pictures and made for tv movies. If you are old enough to know who Gig Young is, WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!
Gig Young is laid to rest in a county not too far from my home county, Kelly B. His family has a plot there, it seems. I have heard that he was suffering melanoma when the tragedy with im occurred, but am unsure of this last.
Remember seeing this as a kid. Definitely a classic. Has that Constantine vibe from the comics
This film facinated me as a kid.
This was a pilot for a series which, I think, NBC failed to pick up, possibly CBS.I saw it on its original broadcast - they edited out much of the semi-nudity then which has been restored. It was 1977 after all. A shame they didn't go to series. It could have been a fine one, I think. Many thanks for sharing this!
I saw this movie many years ago during my childhood in my old black and white television, in these years didn't exit the color in the TV channels of my country!!! Nice movie. After seeing the movie I couldn't sleep because I was afraid!!!!!😂
This would have been a pretty interesting series, I like the portrayal of occult studies a lot here.
Try the The Night Stalker 1972 and Norliss Tapes 1973 the Occult detective pilot was tried several times all three were Great the last attempt was Salems lot 1979 a classic
@@fusion451 I am a Kolchak fan and have made a note about Norliss. Thanks.
The Sentinel 1977 another cult classic
@@fusion451 occult, not cult
@@lockandloadlikehell No i meant cult as in cult following of 70s horror niche films of this genre
This was a teaser of a movie that was, I think, a pilot for a series. I still wish they'd take the characters and make the series. Especially now that we have better effects and so many TV and other channels that could produce this supernatural type detective series. Great concept and nasty demon. We've only recently begun to have similar type demons as bad guys in our movies. Fun old made for TV movie.
It would have been a very interesting series, I think. But especially with the nudity, in 1977 it could never have been done. It was years too early for HBO, Netflix, etc.
Movies like this were not so sensationalized like they are now. The cinematography, the script, the plot and sub-plot twists, the acting all played a part in making things more subtle just as the subject matter which was treated in these older movies were subtle. Unlike today's movies. And the subject matter was informed by research into such things as the occult to help establish a kind of authority and the possibility of realism, not the make things up as you go bullshit we see know in today's horror movies.
Omgosh Ty Ty... same been looking for this! Scared me big time 09 yrs old.
Movies like this were not so sensationalized like they are now. The cinematography, the script, the plot and sub-plot twists, the acting all played a part in making things more subtle just as the subject matter which was treated in these older movies were subtle. Unlike today's movies. And the subject matter was informed by research into such things as the occult to help establish a kind of authority and the possibility of realism, not the make things up as you go bullshit we see know in today's over-sensationalized horror movies. The acting in today's movies are questionable because the actors themselves possess a lack of character, that is to say many are too young, immature and rudderless and lack proper guidance to begin with. Special effects - with exception to the over-emphasis on cgi which also lacks both the subtlety of what is natural, supernatural and organic, capturing very little sense of realism to anchor the phantasmagoric in - and other enhancements should only be secondary or as only a modification to the themes that are treated in good horror movies.
Culp is good in everything he does. I think his likeable face has something to do with it.
He may be good looking and maybe a good person but I've always found his acting leaves something to be desired.
@sledge hammer- There were so many made for tv movies that were great fun. Lots of horror and scifi. I think all 3 networks had their own made for tv movies. I was a teen too when I first saw this. It would make a great tv show now. Funny I was thinking that for the much delayed Greatest American Hero remake Bruce Campbell would make a kick ass Bill Maxwell,Robert Culp's FBI agent character. I wonder if the same would apply to Bruce playing Bill's Sebastian
@sledge hammer But the story was good so gore wasn't needed. Gargoyles was another cool movie as was the unforgettable Trilogy of Terror with everyone's favorite Zuni warrior doll. And William Shatner did Nightmare at 30,000 feet to cash in on the Exorcist.
@sledge hammer I'm in the middle of making a Zuni warrior for a friend that hosts horror movies. I figured that she could you a skit about it when the chain falls off and it animates. It's funny the Six Million Dollar Man also started out as a movie of the week and got great ratings. So did Man From Atlantis and V. I liked the Lizzy Bordon movie that I think CBS did with Elizabeth Montgomery as Lizzie. Salem's Lot and The Last Dinosaur I remember. And the real funny thing was The Bermuda Depths became a sort of online cult movie with discussion groups and web sites devoted to it. My grandfather's favorite was Killdozer since he was a heavy machinery mechanic and welder and he had his own bulldozer. TV will never quite be as fun or entertaining as those days. I mean when else would you see Kiss Meets The Phantom but in the 70's.
@sledge hammer It's too bad the lure of easy money killed local TV stations with infomercials and later the dread reality TV shows. I remember rushing off the bus from first grade so I'd get ready in time for the afternoon movie when they had Giant Monster week. The next day in school we were all excitedly talking about how Godzilla kicked the crap out of King Ghidorah or Gamera nearly getting his leg cut off by Gyaos' sonic cutter beam. Funny that you mentioned scuba diving. My friend was a scuba diver so one night he decided on us going on a night dive in Lake Ontario. Not only was this my first night dive but my first time scuba diving period.He had a yoke set up on his tank so we each had our own regulator. I already knew all the safety basics like never hold your breath or just shoot to the surface from any appreciable depth if you didn't want nitrogen narcosis. All those episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea were finally paying off. So we wrapped a couple crappy flashlights up in Saran Wrap and into the murky depth we went. You can't see much of anything on a night dive in Lake Ontario especially with our sad excuses for lights. I had a big carp swim right up yo my diving mask attracted by the light. He wasn't at all alarmed until I tapped him on the head.
I went on a Boy Scout camp out the weekend this aired waaaaay back, it never repeated and now here I am!
ah found this finally... came on TV when I was a kid...
Loved this movie when I was a kid!!
Oldie but GOODIE. Havent seen this one in years
Great find! Good job.
Thank you love this movie.
It would be impossible for a reboot/re-imagining/remake/retelling of the uncensored version of Gene Roddenberry's Spectre in the present. With the Disney Corporation owning 20th Century Fox Pictures and 20th Century Fox Television, Disney Pictures and Disney Television would never, ever make an action-adventure/crime drama/dark, adult fantasy/horror live action movie or live action T.V. series that has adult themes, brief nudity, sexual situations and violence. This story is just way too dark, grim and gritty. It would be the equivalent of either a Rated R theatrical film or a Rated T.V.-M.A. Cable television show on H.B.O. Disney will never go dark so they will not allow it.
And even if it could be hypothetically updated into a much more modernized and contemporary version of the story, with the way that Hollywood has become completely soy woke, the early 21st century version of Gene Roddenberry's Spectre would be accused of being racist for having an all-white cast, sexist for having women show their breasts, and homophobic for not having any gay characters. Even if it was partly made by the B.B.C. because it was filmed entirely on location at the U.K., they would change the entire cast into an all-black cast, the women would be the main characters and everyone would be gay.
So in a way, while it is unfortunate that a good horror movie like this one had never become a series back in 1977, I'm kinda sorta glad that this story was also never remade into a new version today because that shit would get totally ruined by S.J.W./N.P.C. Politically Correct outrage culture bullshit.
Well said.
Used to watch re-airs of this on TV in the late 70's and early 80's. Love it as a kid. In my young mind I associated shows and movies like this to literary fiction like Saloozy, a short story by Margery Lawrence in Andre Norton's "Small Shadows Creep", featuring a character that appeared in other similar stories akin to Culp's in this, and later channeled this when gamemastering sessions of Pacesetter's Chill horror RPG.
Haven't seen this in 20 years. Was on the Sci Fi channel.
It was on Pilot Playhouse.
There are some good people associated with this film. But, sadly, because it's written & produced by Gene Roddenberry, that means Majel Barrett is in it too....... :( You may remember her as the plank of wood left in charge of 'Enterprise' when Jeffrey Hunter went onto the planet in the Star Trek pilot., and later as Nurse Chappell during the series proper.
Where did you get the Unedited Version I've been trying to get it on DVD for years?
I downloaded the only available version from somebody who video taped it from ''The Sci-Fy Channel in 1986 with Robert England braking in with the commercials.
This must be from the BBC or Channel 4 in England.
The insanely lol lady in the Underground had to have inspired a person in the original evil dead
This should’ve been a tv series
''SPECTRE 1977''
I know you said you up loaded this version, but were did you get this version from?
I'm trying to buy this unedited version.
I found on e-bay this movie sold as a DVD-R all Regions.
I asked the person who is selling copy's of the film in England were the movie was filmed, He said ''I believe it is the edited version.
So again were did this version come from?
I do not remember.
Given Gig Young's death shortly after this movie, it's just as well it didn't get picked up.
I've been looking for this movie forever literally the last 30 years and didn't know the name of it. I saw it in 1977 when I wasn't supposed to (I was 3) lol and remembered it ever since
try the Kolchak tapes tv series the original xfiles
I must admit that from the 70s this was good as some of his other projects were. This was the time that Roddenberry was seeking a new franchise and making pilots for TV. However Paramount (NBC at the time) poisoned the well so to speak. It was hot until Star Trek and kept making money and Star Wars came out and made a BILLION Dollars that all was forgiven between Roddenberry and Paramount.
Great movie to watch and eat popcorn and pizza 🍕! Great acting! Tim
If i go to someone's home and they cut a piece of my hair.....we're going to have a problem...like wtf?
This and the Quester Tapes would have made better series than most of the garbage from the 70's
And now that I've sat through this, given my first impression at its Stateside network premiere with interminable commercial interruptions even then...well, they tried. This was the theatrical release, the customary fate of failed TV series pilots though not necessarily indicative of poor quality. Edit the naughty bits and you likely see what was broadcast. For what they could get away with, British quality is evident. Clive Donner directs, and Culp is perfectly cast. I think I glimpse the old woman from the Overlook Hotel Room 237 among the demon worshippers. Had this "sold" as a series the setting would likely have shifted to Stateside, the principal antagonist's return would doubtless have been muted for fear of the network censors, and we'd have seen more of Lilith and less of poor Gig Young. Still, give 'em credit for making do with what today simply can no longer be left (or trusted?) to the imagination.
Very enjoyable, thanks!
Turtleneck sweaters! I love the 1970s! Memories!
This would've made a good T.V. series
Very interesting pilot/movie, and would have made a very interesting series too. Too bad this upload isn't good enough for full-screen.
"I'm melting! Melting!"
Entertaining, but campy as "hell." I especially liked the part where John Hurt turned into Barney.
It would of been better as a series.like kolchak the night stalker.
This was a pilot for a series but never sold. Shame it did not.
Jim Smith thanks Jim. Im watching it now. I really was fascinated by this film when I was 8. It was rare when it was on TV. But I will assume this version was shown as a theatrical feature instead of the US TV version since the Fox fanfare comes before opening credits. That and many other things that would not pass US Censors.
The credits show that this movie was shot over in the U.K.
Jenny Runacre! What a cool actress.
Spectrum is a great movie for Halloween! Tim
This is almost too ahead of its time in terms of genre and ideas
One of my favorite movies.
The lizard creature at the end -- was that the gorn costume from Star Trek???
Thanks for posting this movie.. Love it... I think it would have been a good series. .but probably wouldn't have lasted past one season
Does anyone know if this is the UK theatrical version or the USA TV version?
Thank you for the post either way.
for some reason Robert culp and Robert stack reminded me of each other. I don't quite know what it was.
I think Dan Akryod copied his speaking style
So that's the kinda stuff Gene was into o_O
The show that wound up being made from this "pilot" might be what came to be known as Supernatural.
This film is well researched on the occult. It may seem like fiction but I think they do form into succubus, incubus, and other names mentioned in this film. At the core they are Jinn's made of smokeless fire or plasma. Commonly they shapeshift into werewolves with red eyes. I have seen them. In America they are called skinwalker's or dogman. They especially reside in the native American soil or a place called wadi-e jinn in the middle east and live for thousands of years.
The elite put their evil idealolgies into movies and label it as science fiction whilst calling occult rituals "Science"... it goes right over peoples heads.. they have no idea.
I loved Majel as Lilith!
For some strange reason, actor James Villiers reminds me of H.P. Lovecraft
Kind of like Benny Hill meets the Exorcist?
Seen this one when I was a kid with my mom and we had fun with it was Cool 😅
Thanks. I'll see an extra showing of a 20th Century Fox movie ...etc .. .or tell me where to send my $3 rental. I guess I was 16 and in HS when this came out and intrigued as a Trekker/ie and going to the conventions.
One of the funniest lies I've ever heard: "This is England, no-one is above the law". Yeah right.
Thanks
Quality, intelligent, cast super Clive Donner directed.
was the soundtrack ever released?
Superb.
Culp was a great actor. Gave Bill Cosby his start. Not all that deserve it, get it!
I don't think Gig Young would've lasted if it was made into a series . He seems to be disinterested in the part he's playing . You can see how off the acting between them is .
It's like Robert Culp is trying to pull teeth as far as getting any emotion out of him . It makes Roberts performance look mechanical .
Read up on Gig Young at around this time. He wasn't in good shape, and met a sad end. Talent, though, he certainly had.
I'm sure , I'm just commenting on this performance .
Ken opalus Gig Young's drinking was completely out of control. You can see it throughout the film. He was a good professional actor who by now was drunk all the time.
How did Kermit the Frog get into this movie (ending)?
ROFL, it is so funny
Azmodeus turned into the Gorn!
Darn. Eight minutes in and his scar is a what? "Not normal scar tissue" - it was MADE to stop beating. It's in a doll. I know you're a drunk but you've got to come on a trip to hold me down cuz this thing with my heart...and the housekeeper is doing something. And a lady with a fur-coat who ain't all that but apparently stops the show when she enters the room. It's 8 minutes in I don't what the hell is going on and i'm going to another movie! LOL The ONLY thing I found fascinating was the apartment in the first scene is decorated like it's 2020 - which means we need to go back to some traditional, cozy, attractive decor instead of imitating 1977 futuristic visions!
Is it me or do the two blokes at the beginning look like brothers?
11:45 Must've been one sizzling love scene in that book.
Love this movie,and it lead for to a slide into horrors unimaginable,a decent into a corner of hell
Good show worth watching 😁
This is the Foreign Version of “Spectre” with Scenes of Nudity, Bare Breasts, etc. that was Never shown in the U.S.!😈👺👹👿💀☠️🧟♀️
Enjoyable film, although the ending was dragged out a bit--Gig Young and Robert Culp made a godd team--Of course , no more future pairings of these two were possible since alcoholic Gig Young killed his girlfriend and then killed himself
12:43 sound effect from Space 1999
32,000 feet for a Lear jet? Isn't that too high?
William Shatner brought me here.
Vicki Michelle - oh my!
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lastima que no esta en español