The Earth Dies Screaming

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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 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 11/15/24 Full Review Lynton A I thought this was a fun interesting British movie of the period, enjoyed worth a look. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Only one hour long? Could have sworn was days longer. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review delysid d Not very frightened by this film but I enjoyed it Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/26/17 Full Review Audience Member Invasion! - but Let's Not Have a Screaming Fit--The Day Everyone Dropped Dead!! Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member 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 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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