The Ghastly Love of Johnny X
The Ghastly Love of Johnny X
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The Ghastly Love of Johnny X

DirectorPaul Bunnell

They Sing! They Dance! They're Juvenile Delinquents from Outer Space!

6.3 / 10
2012
106 min
ComedyFantasyMusicScience Fiction

A truly mad concoction, blending 1950s juvenile delinquents, sci-fi melodrama, song-and-dance, and a touch of horror, everything in just the right combination to create an engaging big screen spectacle! This curious and curiously entertaining story involves one Jonathan Xavier and his devoted misfit gang who, incidentally, have been exiled to Earth from the far reaches of outer space. Johnny's former girlfriend Bliss has left him and stolen his Resurrection Suit, a cosmic, mind-bending uniform that gives the owner power over others. Along the way, there will be several highly stylized musical numbers, lots of genuinely humorous dialogue, and a wacky plot-twist or two, all beautifully captured on the very last of Kodak's black-and-white Plus-X film stock.

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