Close Encounters of the 4th Kind: Infestation from Mars

This movie would be right at home as a double feature at a drive-in in the early 1960's. Even having male chauvinism on display. It starts out pseudo-documentary style, with describing a secret Pentagon program to being back Martian soil samples to harvest the microbes as a bio-weapon. In a farmhouse near Sandusky, Ohio are a couple at home watching TV. LeRoy's favorite film is on, but Eve says they never do anything together. He tells her that watching the movie is doing something together. Going upstairs, she sees a flaming streak in the sky that hits the barn, so she goes to investigate. The off course probe landed there, and she touches the broken capsule with a stick. Bad idea, and it turns her into an Amazon type woman. Bye-bye LeRoy, and to investigate that murder is her sister, who is a detective. There is not much acting skill on display, but they have energy and determination. For a low budget film, they seem to have gotten a lot of local cooperation, as they staged two large crowd scenes, and near the end got a lot of police and fire equipment on camera. There is a certain level of fun watching it, but it is not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination.