Gosto iz galaksije (1982) Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy
IMDb meta-data is 1h and 22m runtime, rated 5.9 by 555 cinematizens.
Genre: Sy Fy.
DNA: Croatia.
Tagline: Watch out for Mumu!
Verdict: Mixed messages.
Hotel reception desk clerk by night, and aspiring science fiction writer by day, Hero gets into the mood by donning a pretend space helmet while pounding the typewriter or dictating into a walkman (remember that?). His obsession with the story he is trying to compose and the helmet annoy his girlfriend no end, and she enlists his mother to talk some sense into him; to no avail.
After a row with those two he sulks around the apartment, when….a voice from the walkman calls to him. It is Andra, the protagonist of his story, who says she is on the island just off the coast! Zounds!Off he goes to find the characters from his story have come alive from his brow and are impatient for him to finish the story. Oh, and they also brought along Mumu. Not good.
***
This sounds kinda like fun but the message is mixed. There is shoot ‘em up with corpses, enough nudity to give Mike Pence apoplexy, and dead-end subplots. Still the direction is brisk and there are sight-gags along the way, and some spicy sarcasm, as when Hero warns the aliens not to show themselves because the townspeople would tear them apart for souvenirs.
A writer becomes so obsessed with his characters that they blot out the reality and people around is a theme in films, like Les Créatures (1966) and Le Magnifique (1973).
This film was produced in 1981 by two countries which no longer exist, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia in Dubrovnik, hence Croatian.