Not of This Earth story
An invader from outer space arrives looking to get blood from the human race. It is a remake of Roger Corman's 1957 film of the same name.
16 total · 5 major · 11 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien living secretly among us | major | Mr. Johnson was actually an alien who sustained itself on human blood. |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | major | Nadine and Harry were an item. |
| existential risk to civilization | major | The Davanna extraterrestrials were all going to perish unless they managed to secure a new source of blood which they needed to sustain themselves. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | Mr. Johnson was actually an alien who sustained itself on human blood. |
| foreign point of view | major | The alien Mr. Johnson was frequently caught unawares when faced with mundane things that people experience in daily life, including not catching pop culture references, not knowing slang, and being puzzled by the appearance of a door-to-door salesman at him home. |
| coping with unwelcome romantic attention | minor | Nadine was pestered by Jeremy over and over again with proposition of a sexual nature. |
| human blood types | minor | Dr. Rochelle initially refused to give Mr. Johnson a blood transfusion without first checking his blood type to learn his rh factor among other things. |
| law enforcement | minor | The uniformed police officer Harry was investigating a series of murders the victims of which had been completely dried of blood. |
| master and servant | minor | Jeremy was effectively working as Mr. Johnson's butler. |
| medical occupation | minor | Nadine served as Mr. Johnson's personal, live-in nurse. Her primary duty was to ensure that Mr. Johnson received his daily blood transfusions. We also saw physician Dr. Rochelle and Nurse Oxford working out of the doctor's clinic. |