Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

O2D This movie is boring.How boring is it?So boring that I had to watch it a second time and I still don't remember a lot of it.The plot doesn't make any sense so I guess being boring doesn't really matter.Somehow, the majority of the people on Earth have mysteriously(and instantly) died and there's virtually no cars on the road.That's not the first or last time that premise was used.Of course the handful of survivors manage to find each other and then decide they should all live together.I'm sure you can see where it's going.I can honestly look past the stupid story, I have seen much worse.But it's hard to ignore how mind numbingly boring it is.I gave it three stars but it was hard to not give two.

AaronCapenBanner Terence Fisher, veteran Hammer Film Studios director, directed this strange science fiction tale that sees a returning astronaut shocked to discover the Earth seemingly deserted, and being invaded by clunky-looking robots! He does encounter some survivors, who tell him what they know about the invasion, and so plan a counter-attack to defeat these robots. Even at just over an hour, this is a remarkably slow, tedious film, with cardboard characters and a clichéd, ineffectual storyline. Title is laughable considering what goes on in the film! Was produced by the same British company(Lippert) that had made the equally poor "Curse Of The Fly". Forget it.

Theo Robertson This is a prime example of how to draw an audience in to a cinematic story . People all across the English countryside suddenly fall dead . Cut to opening credits with a creepy film score then cut to a perplexed survivor driving and stopping at a village strewn with corpses . Something dreadful has happened and the audience know they're going to be watching a spine chilling classic of British cinema For reasons unexplained the producers then decide to ruin the film by .... well not explaining anything . As the story continues we're introduced to one note human characters and eventually robotic villains . Who are these robots ? Obviously they were created by a higher alien intelligence . The aliens it seems can then bring the dead back to life in traditional zombie fashion though this is never explained how or why . Nor is it explained the motives of this invasion . In fact the audience spend so much time asking themselves questions any enjoyment of the film becomes totally negated It's obvious that this movie is movie is produced as a simple B movie to be shown as a precursor to a main feature hence the very short running time . It certainly doesn't suffer from a disjointed feel meaning that the lack of explanation and the all too easy method to defeat the robots comes from script level . This is a pity because if the screenplay especially the exposition and characterization had been developed more then it could have been a classic highly regarded Brit sci-fi movie

ferbs54 That admittedly great title is something of a misnomer. In 1965's "The Earth Dies Screaming," our good planet doesn't quite expire with a scream, a bang or even a T.S. Eliot whimper; rather, it is simply put to a quiet death by an alien gas attack. In the film, we meet what appears to be the last seven people left alive, who converge in a quaint village in what we must infer is northern England. There is an American jet pilot (played by Willard Parker, a likable, rugged actor in the Forrest Tucker mode), an attractive, middle-aged woman (Virginia Field, Parker's real-life wife), a weasly cad (the always impeccable Dennis Price), a drunken older couple and a pregnant young couple. This septet has its hands full avoiding the lumbering, helmeted robots that the aliens have sent down, as well as the blank-eyed, reanimated corpses of the once-living! The film features moody B&W photography, typically taut and suspenseful direction by Hammer Studios legend Terence Fisher (although the film in question here is a product of Shepperton), and several gripping sequences. In one, the newly zombified Violet (of the older couple) makes a very jolting nighttime appearance; in another, attractive Peggy plays cat and mouse in a house filled with buzzing robots and the empty-orbed undead. Unfortunately, "The Earth Dies Screaming," with a running time of only 62 minutes, is a bit on the skimpy side, with an inadequately fleshed-out script. We never DO find out the mysterious motivations of Dennis Price's character, or even learn anything about the alien invaders (or even get to SEE them!). Far from overstaying its welcome, the film ends way too suddenly, and will leave most viewers thinking, "WTF? That's it?" Still, what IS on the screen is pretty much dynamite!