This was a low budget movie, but had an interesting story. However, the execution of this movie was extremely incompetent. Throughout many scenes in the movie, you can see the boom mic hanging down from the top of the screen! Unbelievable! I mean, I've seen a boom mic in a scene or two in some movies, but it just hangs there for half a minute in some of the scenes. Complete incompetence!
Also, the aliens looked rather ridiculous, since they were just children with bald heads.
The acting was also fairly poor, with Robert "Revenge of the Nerds" Carradine, and Cherie Currie from the band The Runaways, which also featured Joan Jett.
However, I did find the story interesting enough to hold my attention throughout the movie.
Another interesting thing to note was that the exteriors of the building where the aliens were kept was a facility know as Lookout Mountain, which is located in Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles. Lookout Mountain was actually a government run film studio, which was active until the late 60s, which produced military films, including footage of nuclear explosions. The facility was sold in 1968, so at the time Wavelength was made, it was in private hands. An American Indian character actor owned it for much of the seventies, but lost it in the early 80s when he went broke. Apparently, the director of Wavelength did not have permission to shoot the exterior of the facility, so there was a bit of guerilla filming going on, or so I've read. Jared Leto now owns the property.
Another interesting point is that Tangerine Dream did the score for the film. I'm not sure why they would become involved in such a low budget project. Maybe they liked the subject matter. Anyway, it's not one of their best scores.
All in all, a somewhat interesting effort for such a low budget production that is marred by boom mic incompetence.
Also, the aliens looked rather ridiculous, since they were just children with bald heads.
The acting was also fairly poor, with Robert "Revenge of the Nerds" Carradine, and Cherie Currie from the band The Runaways, which also featured Joan Jett.
However, I did find the story interesting enough to hold my attention throughout the movie.
Another interesting thing to note was that the exteriors of the building where the aliens were kept was a facility know as Lookout Mountain, which is located in Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles. Lookout Mountain was actually a government run film studio, which was active until the late 60s, which produced military films, including footage of nuclear explosions. The facility was sold in 1968, so at the time Wavelength was made, it was in private hands. An American Indian character actor owned it for much of the seventies, but lost it in the early 80s when he went broke. Apparently, the director of Wavelength did not have permission to shoot the exterior of the facility, so there was a bit of guerilla filming going on, or so I've read. Jared Leto now owns the property.
Another interesting point is that Tangerine Dream did the score for the film. I'm not sure why they would become involved in such a low budget project. Maybe they liked the subject matter. Anyway, it's not one of their best scores.
All in all, a somewhat interesting effort for such a low budget production that is marred by boom mic incompetence.