The Earth Dies Screaming Fete of Death "The Earth Dies Screaming" is a short, very watchable British scifi flick about robots who take over the world. True, the robots aren't very scary and indigestion will give you more nightmares than the human zombies streeling around with their exophthalmic white eyes, but it's a pretty intense movie. I liked the exciting scene where the lumbering zombies chase one of the surviving women into a house and she desperately tries to escape their clutches. This movie isn't as good as, say, "The Crawling Eye," (another British scifi film) which was made some seven years earlier, but it has its moments and it has a similar feeling of dread throughout it. I never saw this movie on TV and I can't understand why not. It's much better than the average scifi flick.
Just a really short review, barely. Yep, got this one to, and as I said, this is gonna really be short.
Chosen Survivor: Fine. I really think they should have stuck with the original plot--it was more interesting. Unlike everybody in the movie, I saw the 'brain doctor's' point...maybe it should have been tried like that.
The Earth Dies Screaming. Pretty fine Science Fiction about the earth being invaded by robots. Fine idea...but only 64 minutes long. It's like I've always said...if you make a movie and it's crap (most are today) then keep it short! If you made a fine movie, add another thirty minutes to it (not fluff)! But who ever listens to Oldtechno? Anyway, if you like the old Science Fiction from the 40's,50's, this is your cup of tea. I like it!
BYE!
Don't forget the "second feature"! It seems like many of the reviewers of this release have concentrated on "Chosen Survivors" in their comments. I'd just like to put in a plug for "The Earth Dies Screaming" as the movie here that I liked better. (Admittedly, an awful title if one wanted the film to be taken seriously).
A movie directed by Terence Fisher cannot fail to be of interest to genre fans. Dumb title aside, the plot is reminiscent of The Day of the Triffids; I actually find this film as good if not better than the 60's version of that. All in all, a sort of Triffids meets Village of the Damned meets Target Earth. And I can't say enough for the demo-quality black & white transfer. I know I'll be returning to this film often, something I can't say about "Chosen Survivors".
If you like 50's-60's sci-fi, do treat yourself to this set! (Four stars for "Earth", two for "Survivors" is what is behind my overall three-star rating.)
Doomsday Done Right... Another Midnite Movie double feature masterpiece! CHOSEN SURVIVORS concerns a group of eleven men and women chosen (by the government) to be the ones who wait out WWIII. Yep, they get to repopulate the planet! Luckily, our beloved elected officials have thought of everything, sending these folks deep beneath the earth. Once there, they are greeted by a pre-recorded message telling them that the world has been destroyed. Tensions start to build as each person tries to comprehend what has happened. Unfortunately, things go badly, as a massive swarm of vampire bats somehow infiltrate the underground facility, hungry for the red stuff! Richard Jaeckel (Grizzly, Day Of The Animals, The Dark) is the military engineer. Bradford Dillman (Bug, Piranha) is the psychiatrist who just might know something the others don't. Jackie Cooper (Superman 1 and 2) is the slimy corporate executive of the bunch. CS is a nice claustrophobic thriller. THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING is sort of the british version of TARGET EARTH. The movie opens with a train crashing, a plane plummeting from the sky, etc. It seems that some alien force has unleashed poison gas on mankind! Soon, a few survivors find each other and attempt to make sense of it all. Our heroes are hunted by lumbering, annoyingly slow robots. Also, some re-animated zombies w/ eyes like boiled eggs are shambling around. Watch for Dennis Price (Horror Hospital, Tower Of Evil) as a sneaky jerk with selfish plans of his own. Both of these films are quite re-watchable. A terror-ific double bill...
Old style sci-fi Old style sci-fi with the strong, take-charge leading man, and beautiful, intelligent but submissive leading lady. Set in UK, with odd looking robo-badguys that don't instill any real fear. Characters fairly well realized. OK, but not great.
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