Making Contact

Making Contact (1985)

Joey

Only he can see it. Only he shares its magic. Only he knows the danger.

A nine year old boy named Joey, who after the tragic death of his father, begins to experience psychic powers such as allowing him to move inanimate objects with his mind, set things on fire, and even communicate with his dead father. However, not everything is good for Joey as his newly gained powers accidentally awake an evil supernatural force that is contained inside the body of an old ventriloquist's dummy that Joey found in an abandoned house. The supernatural Dummy shows similar powers to Joey's, and soon he puts the lives of everyone near Joey in danger as the evil Dummy has dark plans for Joey's special powers.

Date of release
1985-11-21
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (67)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Adventure
Director
Roland Emmerich

Casting

Interesting facts

Joey, known as Making Contact in the United States, is a 1985 West German techno-horror-fantasy film from Centropolis Film Productions. The film was co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich.

Production

Director and co-writer Roland Emmerich said of the production:I want to make entertaining movies for a broad audience. Germany needs a film industry again. Making 'artsy' movies may be nice for the ego, but it will not feed an industry. Entertaining the masses is the foundation, and that has been neglected here for a long time. People like Spielberg and Lucas are showing the way.

The film took a year and a half to make and Emmerich kept costs down by building his own effects studio in an abandoned factory instead of using a more expensive established effects house. In order to shoot the film in English, Emmerich recruited several of his actors from an American Military base in Germany.

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