Wavelength (1983 film)

Wavelength is a 1983 science fiction film written and directed by Mike Gray and starring Robert Carradine, Cherie Currie, and Keenan Wynn.[1]

For other uses, see Wavelength (disambiguation).
Wavelength
VHS release cover
Directed byMike Gray
Produced byJames Rosenfield
Written byMike Gray
StarringRobert Carradine
Cherie Currie
Keenan Wynn
Music byTangerine Dream
CinematographyPaul Goldsmith
Edited byRobert Leighton
Mark Goldblatt
Distributed byNew World Pictures
Release date
  • September 16, 1983 (1983-09-16)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Bobby Sinclaire (Robert Carradine) , a failing Californian musician, meets telepathic Iris Longacre (Cherie Currie) in a bar and they begin a relationship. At Sinclaire's apartment, Longacre begins to hear things others cannot. The young couple discover the voices are from a childlike race of aliens being held by the U.S. government after their UFO crashed. The government plans to use the trio of aliens for experimentation and dissection in an supposedly abandoned underground bunker located near Sinclaire's apartment. The couple decides to liberate the aliens and help them return them to their mothership.

Reception

TV Guide gave the movie two out of five stars, praising the movie's sense of morality and soundtrack, but found Carradine's performance lacking during the music scenes and the narration at the beginning and ending of the film to be very detrimental to the movie.[2] Moria found that the movie has a promising build up, but that the film heads in predictable directions, and that its special effects were lacking.[3] Creature Feature found that the movie was an interesting morality tale, and also praised the soundtrack, but said that the use of children to play the aliens hampered the film.[4][5]

Production

It was planned for the movie to be released before E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, but implementation of the film's special effects delayed its release.[6]

Soundtrack
Wavelength
Soundtrack album by
Tangerine Dream
Released1983
Recorded1983
GenreElectronic music
Length37:55
LabelVarèse Sarabande
Tangerine Dream chronology
Hyperborea
(1983)		 Wavelength
(1983)		 Risky Business
(1984)

Wavelength (1983) is the twentieth major release and third soundtrack album by the German band Tangerine Dream. It is the soundtrack for the film Wavelength starring Robert Carradine, Cherie Currie, and Keenan Wynn.[7]

No.TitleLength
1."Alien Voices"0:16
2."Wavelength Main Title"1:54
3."Desert Drive"2:00
4."Mojave End Title"3:59
5."Healing"2:23
6."Breakout"1:09
7."Alien Goodbyes"1:50
8."Spaceship"2:18
9."Church Theme"3:41
10."Sunset Drive"3:23
11."Airshaft"3:10
12."Alley Walk"2:55
13."Cyro Lab"2:13
14."Running Through The Hills"1:30
15."Campfire Theme"1:23
16."Mojave End Title Reprise"3:51

Many of the tracks are remixes from other albums:

  • "Desert Drive" and "Spaceship" are remixed excerpts from "Quichotte, Part One" from Quichotte.
  • "Healing is a slightly remixed excerpt of "Tangram Set One" from Tangram
  • "Church Theme" is a remix of "Silver Scale"; a song that was performed live during European tours in 1980 and 1981, but not released by that name until 1994 on Tangents.
  • "Sunset Drive" is a remix of "Remote Viewing" from Exit.

References
  1. "Wavelength". TV Guide.
  2. https://www.tvguide.com/movies/wavelength/review/122441/
  3. http://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/wavelength-1983.htm
  4. Stanley, J. (2000) Creature Feature: 3rd Edition
  5. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1023251_wavelength
  6. http://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/wavelength-1983.htm
  7. Berling, Michael (29 September 2016). "Wavelength". Voices in the Net.
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