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1993 American science fiction film
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Blue Flame
Directed byCassian Elwes
Written byCassian Elwes
StarringCharley Hayward
Jad Mager
Kerri Green
CinematographyDaniele Massaccesi
Edited byJohn Lafferty
Music byGeorge Adrian
Tyler Bates
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Blue Flame is a 1993 American independent sci-fi film written and directed by Cassian Elwes, starring Kerri Green as one of two seductive aliens who live inside the head of a renegade police officer.

Plot

Turner is a police officer whose life and marriage is torn apart when his daughter goes missing. The two aliens believed responsible, Fire and Rain, are put in cryogenic suspension. Two years later they escape and Turner must travel through time and alternate realities to uncover the truth of what happened to his daughter.

Cast

Production

Elwes wrote the script during a period of four days, while he was recovering from a surgery. The film was completed on a budget of approximately $150,000.

Release

Some publications list Blue Flame as releasing in 1993; the film also has a release date of 1995.

Reception

Critical reception for the film has been negative, with common elements of criticism focusing on the script, character cliches, and acting. Emanuel Levy reviewed Blue Flame for Variety, criticizing it as "a dull, incongruous sci-fi pic that is comically wrong in almost every way." Clive Davies was also critical about the film in his book Spinegrinder, calling it a "pathetic excuse for a movie" and citing the script and character cliches as issues with Blue Flame.

References

  1. ^ Levy, Emanuel (1995-08-21). "Blue Flame". Variety. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  2. Olster, Scott. "Meet independent film's go-to 'fixer'". Fortune. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  3. ^ Davies, Clive (2015-03-06). Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won’t Write About. SCB Distributors. ISBN 978-1-909394-06-3.
  4. "Film: New Releases". LA Weekly (Newspapers.com). August 24, 1995.
  5. "Blue Flame (review)". Psychotronic Video Issue 23 (Internet Archive). 1995. p. 17.

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