If you loved A Boy and His Dog, try The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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A Boy and His Dog

1975 · dir. L.Q. Jones

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The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

1979 · dir. Jean Girault

What they share

Theyboth carry the 3am cult, pitch black mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to A Boy and His Dog, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

3am cultpitch black

What The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space is

Here we have a film that perhaps only France could produce. A bumbling police inspector must protect the residents of St. Tropez from humanoid aliens with a taste for petroleum. The aliens are detectable by the garbage-can sound they make when touched. It's a French farce, and it knows it.

If you loved A Boy and His Dog, try The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

A Boy and His Dog

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

What they share

What The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space is

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