They Came From Beyond Space

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nick s Really no redeeming features. The stilted dialogue was used as a vehicle to explain what was happening to the audience. The storyline was silly and forgettable. The action was half hearted. The movie is about as bad as a fan fiction film made by the socially awkward guy at school. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/02/24 Full Review Monsol E A pretty interesting plot, that struggled with it's pacing. When a bunch of "meteors" fall in a formation, scientists go to examine them, but promptly undergo a change upon contact, leaving the one guy who stayed behind to figure out what's happened. It plays out less as a sci-fi, and more as a spy-thriller, which is neat actually! Especially considering the scientist we follow is just a regular middle-aged guy, trying to do espionage and light-warfare by himself, seemingly without experience. The big reveal as to what alien-stuff going on is a bit silly, but also has a surprisingly warm/fuzzy resolution. It's slow, not particularly visually appealing, and perhaps a tad dumb, but I still quite enjoyed it! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/27/23 Full Review Audience Member We already covered the film that this played double bills with — The Terrornauts — earlier today. And much like that movie, this one has a great poster that advertises a movie I want to see more than the one that I actually watched. Based on Joseph Millard's The Gods Hate Kansas, this was directed by Freddie Francis for Amicus. He claimed that the studio spent all of the budget for this on the aforementioned The Terrornauts, leading to an inferior film. This one is about the Master of the Moon (Michael Gough!) spreading a "Crimson Plague" that wipes out a whole bunch of humanity so that the government will send the bodies of the victims to the moon to hide what really happened to them, at which point he will bring them back to life and use them to fix his spaceship. It's a really complicated plan that gets torn apart at the end by hero Dr. Curtis Temple, who basically tells the Master that if he'd just asked for help, humanity would have done it. This causes one of the most powerful beings in the galaxy to just start crying. Supposedly this was Anwar Sadat's favorite movie. I only have IMDB as a source for this, but I find that absolutely hilarious and have decided that it must be true. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member What could have been a decent Quatermass or Doctor Who adventure lapses too much into silly ideas and not properly executed scenes. Aspects of interest but overall weak. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Decent movie. We enjoyed it, but we like these kind of movies Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member I've really enjoyed director Freddie Francis' work with Hammer Films over the years, and it was intriguing to see him attached to a lower-budget project and see how he'd do, with lesser-quality actors and production values. It's not bad, just lagging in places, and seems a tad too close to Stephen King's 'The Tommyknockers' later on, for comfort (though that could be due to the novel it's from 'The Gods Hate Kansas' rather than the film). The apparently high degree of sexual attraction the two hot ladies in the film have for the protagonist, Dr. Curtis Temple, is hard to believe--unless they simply went for his bankroll or had 'daddy' issues. Although Robert Hutton, who plays him, was only 47 at the time of filming, and the actresses who portrayed his assistant Lee Mason and the girl attendant at the gas station were 36 and of unknown age respectively, he looks at least 55 and that he could be the Mason's father and perhaps the attendant's grandfather. Bad casting in that regard, although they're more than capable for the modest complexity of their parts. I liked the fact that unlike most other science fiction films, the potential of working together with the invasion force as a possible alternative to the tired, seemingly inevitable probability of war with the invading force was explored. Science fiction and horror are extremely popular filmmaking genres that have stood the test of time because they offer us clever avenues as metaphors for examining closely issues that affect society today. The time has certainly come in which people have to stop and intelligently discuss topics that concern us, rather than cling doggedly to our dogma, and to Hell with anyone that dares think any differently than we do. Frankly I feel that it's the only hope that we as a civilization have. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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