Stalker (1979 film) of the "Time Out Film Guide" has compared "Stalker" to Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now", also released in 1979, and argued that "as a journey to the heart of darkness" "Stalker" looks "a good deal more persuasive than Coppola's." As well, "Slant Magazine" reviewer Nick Schager has praised the film as an "endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness". In Schager's view "Stalker" shows "something akin to the essence of what man is made of: a tangled knot of memories, fears, fantasies, nightmares, paradoxical impulses, and a yearning for something that's simultaneously beyond our reach and yet intrinsic to every one
The Visitor (1979 film) one critic to call the film an ""Exorcist" knock-off". That same review cited other obvious influences on the film like "Carrie", "The Birds", and "The Lady from Shanghai". On Rotten Tomatoes, it received an aggregate score of 87% based on 14 reviews. The Visitor (1979 film) The Visitor is a 1979 Italian-American science fiction horror film directed by Giulio Paradisi (credited as Michael J. Paradise) and based on a story by the Egypt-born Italian writer and producer Ovidio G. Assonitis. Unlike many of its contemporaries, it features a cast of well-established stars including John Huston, Shelley Winters, Mel Ferrer, Glenn