The Day It Came to Earth

Year: 1977

Runtime: 88 mins

Language: English

Director: Harry Thomason

Horror

Mysterious lights are reported on April 7, 1936, along a lonely highway near Tucson, Arizona, and again on January 12, 1941 outside Lincoln, Nebraska. Later a glowing meteor crashes into a secluded pond where Mafia hitmen have hidden a victim’s body. College students who frequent the pond for swimming soon discover the strange phenomenon, setting off a chain of unsettling events.

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