Sci-Fi Brief Down To Earth Feels Like an Australian Stranger Issues

As summer time creeps to a detailed, greatest buddies Alex and Eddie spend their days patrolling their rural Australian city on their BMX bikes with their walkie-talkies, ready for one thing… something to occur. At first, the most important occasion is the return of Stacey, Alex’s neighbor, on whom he occurs to have a mega-crush. However then the trio catches sight of a meteorite—a minimum of they suppose it’s a meteorite—crashing to Earth, and determine to hike to the crash website to analyze.

There’s positively some Stranger Issues taste to Down To Earth, with its hearty dose of ‘80s nostalgia (synth rating, test!) and young-teen nerdiness. However the children are endearing (Stacey, Alex’s dream lady, simply so occurs to like science and outer area, and has a mouth filled with braces) and the story builds a vivid world in underneath 10 minutes, even when the thumbnail form of spoils the thrill of discovery for this one. Nonetheless! It’s nicely value a watch on Mud’s YouTube channel on your each day dose of retro sci-fi vibes.

Form of want you might see what occurs subsequent, proper?

Down To Earth was directed by Nick Crowhurst and written by Stephanie Jaclyn, with a solid that features Sebastien Skubala (Alex), Liam Daughtry (Eddie), and Kiki Nicholls (Stacey). Right here’s the official synopsis:

Alex is a typical shy teenager crushing exhausting on his area obsessed next-door neighbour, Stacey. Regardless of the frilly efforts to draw her consideration, typically with the misguided assist of his doofus of a greatest pal, Eddie, Stacey barely notices him. This all adjustments when a meteorite crash lands on the outskirts of their small Australian nation city. Seeing it a possibility to get nearer to Stacey, Alex proposes the three of them attempt to discover it. Armed with a map, some walkie talkies and, in Eddie’s case, ample snacks, the three enterprise off into the outback. Because the solar units and with Eddie slowing them down, their probabilities of discovering the meteorite shortly fades, till they stumble throughout a smoking barn and inside uncover one thing out of this world!

You’ll be able to study extra about Down To Earth (together with how the alien was created) and the oldsters who made it on the movie’s official web site.

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