Using hundreds of clips from Japanese, vintage American and Spanish-language science fiction features in conjunction with non-fiction footage, Craig Baldwin's TRIBULATION 99: ALIEN ANOMALIES UNDER AMERICA is a surreal, satiric mock-documentary that explains some of the salient features
of American political life since 1949.
With a fast but deadpan narration and frequent banner intertitles redolent of the National Enquirer, Baldwin affirms the invasion of Earth by refugees from a far-off intergalactic explosion, and these extraterrestrials are not nice guys, having become lizard-like from having mated with snakes
under the ice of the South Pole. They cre...
Released:
1991
Rated:
NR
Length:
50 mins