midge56 The sound effects & pursuit technique scared the hell out of me and this is saying something because I was raised on Twilight Zone, Outer limits and a plethora of drive-in horror movies as a child & toddler. So less than a handful of thousands of films ever affected me. Those were "The Brain that wouldn't die" "Five" "Saturn 3" and "Darkness". To a lesser degree "Haunting in Connecticut" "Ring" & "The Grudge".Most of the other reviewers were either neophytes who were not born when this film came out or skeptics who would not appreciate any UF0 film. It would be tantamount to me reviewing Westerns. I don't like Westerns, so I have no business reviewing one since I could never give a fair opinion of a genre I didn't like. Neophytes who were not alive in the 50's-80's should not be judging films or methods which they have no direct knowledge or experience of those timeframes. Much less compare them to modern styles & technologies.At The end of the film is a screen statement which says it is based on a true story & all the gov't info was factual. You cannot apply cinematic criticism to a true story. To do so demonstrates the lack of maturity level in someone who cannot separate depiction of truth versus fiction. Let's give this film the leeway that it is based on a true story as it has stated. We cannot dispute this claim since none of us were present. Those who go out of their way to dispute the veracity of these events are usually some gov't hireling spreading disinfo or some know nothing bully trying to exert dissension & control to satiate their need to belittle others. So let's take the producers word that this film is based on true events.This is a British film setting so it is typically low key.Here are the spoiler events of the film: The film begins with a photographer & his model accidentally filming ET's in the background of a photo session. The photographer returns to the location, becomes terrified & runs to a nearby home for refuge. The model becomes concerned & a media friend takes the photographers negatives & consults a UF0 expert while the model returns to the location to search for the photographer who was since taken by the ET's. The model also disappears.Neighbors notice 2 abandoned cars & call police. The house the photographer sought for refuge was discovered to have a fired shotgun in the yard, an unconscious owner who died soon after & a blinded dog. The ET's go around destroying evidence. The couple reporting the cars are found dead and military soldiers guarding a UF0 landing site are found dead from radiation. A "men in black" British organization called "the Silencers" takes over. Unlike MIB, they beat up, steal evidence, & kill witnesses with brutal deliberation. They confiscate the negatives & everything else. Police find the model catatonic. The media reporter discovers his assistant is a Silencer who has been spying & helped kidnap the model.The reporter & UFO expert rescue the model, kill the bad guys & find a psychic to communicate. The model dies. The Silencers arrive & machine gun down the reporter & UF0 expert. The photographer is shown dead in the UFO which departs after all the evidence & witnesses are dead.Despite the pace & low key style, I found the movie quite interesting & downright scary.I only recommend this movie to UF0 buffs.

Bezenby Franco Garofalo, some years before quite rightly winning best Oscar for his performance as the undead-baiting, wild eyed Santoro in Zombie Creeping Flesh, plays in this film an alien-baiting, wild eyed photographer called Peter. Now, Peter's out on a photo shot with girlfriend Sherry Buchanan (some years before SHE won best Oscar for having her vocal chords removed in Zombie Holocaust), and although he notes that it's rather creepy out there, it's not until he gets home when he notices he's captured some strange figures in the background.Heading back out to the photo shoot, Peter is then abducted by some aliens who also blind a dog and irradiate some poor fellow. Sherry informs her journalist friend that she's going looking for him, but not before giving him some negatives. Then she vanishes too. Now our hack Tony's going to have to do some investigating, which isn't going to be easy as the cops (led by Martin Balsam, who's hilariously been dubbed by a Yorkshire accent) tells him to take nowt to do w' it.Tony teams up with his UFOlogist mate Coleman and with his secretary also helping out, Tony has to deal with the cops, a special, creepy branch called the silencers, and those aliens themselves, who tend to turn up rather a lot to clear up some clues themselves.At first, I thought this was going to be a snore-fest. Although there was plenty of atmosphere to begin with, it looked like there wasn't going to be too much going on after that. I was wrong though. If it isn't the Silencers turning up now and again to put the squeeze on Tony and give him a kicking, the aliens also appear often to make sure no ones got evidence. These days it would be all posted on Youtube and the aliens could have just typed in 'Fake!' and that would be that.There's loads of double crosses, espionage, proper references to UFO occurrences, and a nice soundtrack. For a late seventies Italian film, there's absolutely no gore, sex and (thankfully) animals getting killed, so that's refreshing for a start. As daft as the aliens look, they still manage to be creepy, as does the final image of what happened to Peter.This is a nice diversion from the usual carnage. Those with patience might like it.

kai ringler A man is doing a photo shoot with a model out in the middle of a field somewhere, and unknowingly he get's footage of alien craft, and aliens. Once he finds out what he's got he stashes the negatives. Sooner or later someone finds out about it,, a clandestine group within the World Government find out and they will stop and nothing to get the negatives back, because they feel if the information is released to the public at large, it will cause a worldwide panic. Meanwhile the photographer place is tossed and everyone is looking for the negatives, the model shows up later in the movie after being traumatized by the aliens although we do not see this part in the movie,, overall it wasn't bad the first half of the movie,, but the second half just turned me off. so that's why I'm going with a 4 rating.

BA_Harrison Photographer Peter (Franco Garofalo) and his model Karin (Sherry Buchanan) are abducted by a UFO. Reporter Tony (Robert Hoffmann) investigates and discovers that a mysterious organisation called 'The Silencers' have been covering up evidence of alien visitations to Earth.Less than 48 hours after watching Eyes Behind the Stars, which pertains to be more sci-fact than sci-fi, the precise details of its plot escape me. I can vaguely recall terrible acting, numerous protracted scenes of inane dialogue between extremely dull characters, some really crap alien costumes, and the overuse of a fish eye lens to give the effect of an alien presence, but very little else.While this is probably due to the fact that the film bored the hell out of me and my brain has refused to retain anything more than the basics, it might just be because, having seen the film, I knew too much and The Silencers have wiped my memory (cue eerie sci-fi music......).