Joey (1985 film)

Joey
Joey
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Roland Emmerich
Written by	Roland Emmerich; Hans J. Haller; Thomas Lechner
Produced by	Willi Segler; Alena Rimbach; James Melkonian; Executive producer; Klaus Dittrich
Starring	Joshua Morrell; Eva Kryll
Cinematography	Egon Werdin
Edited by	Carl Colpaert; Alan Toomayan; Tomy Wigand
Music by	Paul Gilreath
Production; company	Centropolis Film Productions
Distributed by	New World Pictures
Release dates	November 21, 1985 (West Germany); December 27, 1985 (United States);
Running time	98 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German (Shot in English)

Joey, also known as Making Contact, is a 1985 West German horror-fantasy film from Centropolis Film Productions (now Centropolis Entertainment). The film was co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich.

Plot

The plot concerns a 9 year-old boy named Joey (Joshua Morell) who loses his father, but makes contact with what he believes is his deceased parent via a small phone and is terrorized by a ventriloquist dummy named Fletcher who is possessed by a demon and summons other demons and evil forces to threaten his friends/mother/enemies/city as only the boy must go into the spirit world to destroy this evil in a battle of good vs. evil.^[1] The boy develops the power of telekinesis, which soon gets out of hand.^[2]

Release

Joey was released in North America as Making Contact. The North American version was heavily cut and ran 79 minutes. Joey was subsequently released as a 2 disc DVD set featuring the original 98 minutes version along with the edited North American cut. In 2016, Kino Lorber has announced a Blu-ray with extras to be announced and new high definition transfer.

References

^ Haase, Christine (2007). When Heimat Meets Hollywood: German Filmmakers and America, 1985-2005. Boydell & Brewer. p. 107. ISBN 1-57113-279-1.
^ Mannikka, Eleanor. "Joey (1985)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-06-23.

External links

Joey at IMDb
Joey at Rotten Tomatoes

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[1] Haase, Christine (2007). When Heimat Meets Hollywood: German Filmmakers and America, 1985-2005. Boydell & Brewer. p. 107. ISBN 1-57113-279-1.

[2] Mannikka, Eleanor. "Joey (1985)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-06-23.

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