The Earth Dies Screaming

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The Earth Dies Screaming

Released Oct 14, 1964

1h 2m

Sci-Fi

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An astronaut (Willard Parker) returns from a test flight to find England overtaken by alien-controlled robots which turn corpses into zombies.

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Dennis Schwartz

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Never seems anything more than absurd.

Rated: C+

Jun 30, 2022

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Paul Mount

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Running for little over an hour, The Earth Dies Screaming moves at a fair old clip and it certainly doesn't hang about.

Rated: 8/10

Jan 26, 2018

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nick s

Starts with a bang but quickly fizzles. The budget is low and it shows in the limited sets and effects. The unarmed robots move at a snails pace, as do the human zombies, and neither look particularly alert. The story kind of meanders as if the writer didn't know where to go with it. But at least the pacing was good. Some of the acting was fine too which makes it watchable.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

11/15/24

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Lynton A

I thought this was a fun interesting British movie of the period, enjoyed worth a look.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/04/23

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Audience Member

Only one hour long? Could have sworn was days longer.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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delysid d

Not very frightened by this film but I enjoyed it

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/26/17

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Invasion! - but Let's Not Have a Screaming Fit--The Day Everyone Dropped Dead!!

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Stumbled 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.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Synopsis

An astronaut (Willard Parker) returns from a test flight to find England overtaken by alien-controlled robots which turn corpses into zombies.

Director: Terence Fisher
Producer: Jack Parsons
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Lippert Films
Genre: Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 14, 1964, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 18, 2012
Runtime: 1h 2m

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