At the Earth's Core

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At the Earth's Core

PG

1976

1h 30m

Fantasy

Adventure

Sci-Fi

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Dr. Abner Perry (Peter Cushing) is an English scientist who has invented a massive drill that can dig deep into the earth. Joined by his adventure-seeking American backer, David Innes (Doug McClure), Perry accidentally discovers an underground civilization of primitive humans who live in fear of telepathic flying monsters. David becomes intrigued by the beautiful native Dia (Caroline Munro), and must rescue her when she is chosen as a human sacrifice.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Doug and the Professor sneak around one strange man-eating vegetable, and there's another one -- which is the original vegetable, photographed from a new angle.

Rated: 1/4

Oct 23, 2004

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

…Kevin Connor's At The Earth's Core is a completely daft and cheerfully dated film that’s really just a romp for fans of Peter Cushing and Doug McClure…nostalgic fun as a lazy Sunday afternoon watch for several generations of viewers….

Rated: 3/5

Nov 7, 2025

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Boasting mediocre acting, some surprisingly entertaining monsters, and unintentionally hilarious fantasy adventure, it's likely the most well balanced of Connor's early films.

Rated: 7/10

Aug 27, 2020

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Stephen Randall

Los Angeles Free Press

It's the type of movie you can send your kids to, but only if you don't much like them.

Oct 31, 2019

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Jesús Fernández Santos

El Pais (Spain)

The movie is shown like a museum fossil without any enthusiasm. [Full Review in Spanish]

Jul 24, 2019

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 2/5

Oct 8, 2005

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David W

One.of my all time favourite quintisentially daft but hugely enjoyable and wholly unplausible Hammer style adventures. It's got two greats of the genre in Cushing and McClure and the almost supernaturally beautiful Caroline Munroe in her pin-up pomp. I simply love the bones of this wonderful sci-fi b-movie nonsense.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/18/25

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Audience Member

Utter trash that comes off as totally amateurish. There's virtually no story here and the special effects are anything but. The only things going for it are Caroline Monro and the great Peter Cushing but even they cant save this mess.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

05/10/25

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Jason T

Everything is awful. The writing, the direction, the 'monsters', the premise. And as garish as all that was, nothing came close to how awful the acting was. It's so bad you can't even appreciate it for how terrible it is.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/04/23

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DanTheMan 2

At the Earth's Core is utterly joyous nonsense, extravagant, colourful and thoroughly preposterous, a typical lavish Jules Verne-style adventure full of youthful wonderment and hilariously dated effects. The movie is a kind of no-talent competition in which the acting, script, direction and camera work vie for last place but remains as upbeat as its exuberant charm allows for. With the great pairing of an overbearingly British Peter Cushing and a surprisingly pudgy Doug McClure battling rubber-suited monsters and subterranean species, it remains a blast throughout, even if the movie seemingly wanted to give more character to Caroline Munro's heaving cleavage than anything else in the picture.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

08/16/23

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Steve D

Too ridiculous to work.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

08/10/23

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georgan g

This one had the worst bad makeup & costumes I think I've ever seen. It's good for a laugh if you like really low budget silly monsters.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Synopsis

Dr. Abner Perry (Peter Cushing) is an English scientist who has invented a massive drill that can dig deep into the earth. Joined by his adventure-seeking American backer, David Innes (Doug McClure), Perry accidentally discovers an underground civilization of primitive humans who live in fear of telepathic flying monsters. David becomes intrigued by the beautiful native Dia (Caroline Munro), and must rescue her when she is chosen as a human sacrifice.

Director: Kevin Connor
Producer: John Dark
Screenwriter: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Milton Subotsky
Production Co: Amicus Productions
Rating: PG
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 16, 2008
Runtime: 1h 30m

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