
A crack test pilot lands to find the planet has been devastated by some unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.... (Full plot summary below)
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A crack test pilot lands to find the planet has been devastated by some unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.
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| StarburstPaul MountRunning for little over an hour, The Earth Dies Screaming moves at a fair old clip and it certainly doesn't hang about. |
| User Reviewdelysid dNot very frightened by this film but I enjoyed it |
| User ReviewOrlok WStumbled across this quite by accident, watching Tom Waits videos on (What Are You Looking At) You Tube. The TW song Earth Died Screaming is named after it. It's an enjoyable British sci-fi/horror from 1965 with a quite visibly low-budget but the acting and direction (by Hammer veteran Terence Fisher) more than atone for it. Dennis Price plays a selfish cad as he does so often and so well. Willard Parker is mighty fine in the lead; his character continues the grand sci-fi tradition of having a hero called Jeff (see Plan 9 From Outer Space). This Jeff (of the subspecies Nolan) even has heroic eyebrows. The opening tableaux of people succumbing to a gas attack is great and although the rest of the film cannot match up to it, it's still pretty good. The score, by avant garde composer Elisabeth Lutyens, is beautifully haunting too. |
| User ReviewAl MAn entertaining piece of early 60s sci-fi that has some cool alien robots terrorizing an apocalyptic vision of Earth, The Earth Dies Screaming is not an overly original entry in the genre but is not an entirely forgettable example either. |
| User ReviewBrian SPretty thin on story but Terence Fisher does his best to make a good film out of it. This one had to of had some kind of influence on Romero and Russo when they wrote Night Of The Living Dead together. The Earth Dies Screaming has some truly great and creepy moments and does a fine job delivering an apocalyptic feel. Lots of dead scattered bodies fill the streets. And some of the best moments come when the Alien robots are on patrol. The reanimated dead look creepy as hell with their bulging gray eyes! There never is a real explanation for their visit, but then again why do we always feel there should be one!? This is a fine film and it definatly made for a good late evening Autumn movie! |
| User ReviewJonathan SVery low budget but rather amusing sci-fi/horror flick. |