Too much of everything

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

best movie i've ever seen.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

This movie is boring.How boring is it?So boring that I had to watch it a second time and I still don't remember a lot of it.The plot doesn't make any sense so I guess being boring doesn't really matter.Somehow, the majority of the people on Earth have mysteriously(and instantly) died and there's virtually no cars on the road.That's not the first or last time that premise was used.Of course the handful of survivors manage to find each other and then decide they should all live together.I'm sure you can see where it's going.I can honestly look past the stupid story, I have seen much worse.But it's hard to ignore how mind numbingly boring it is.I gave it three stars but it was hard to not give two.

What to say? I first saw this on TV sometime in the early 70's and I've always wanted to have another crack at it. Needless to say I jumped at the DVD when it became available. (mine is the Final Cut release). It's one of those low-rent British Sci-Fi/horror films in which our heroes are holed-up in a village pub while the aliens/robots/blobs are on the hunt outside. In this case it's alien robots that have been cooked-up from old vacuum cleaners and medical equipment, but they are a bit scary. Hammer director Terence Fisher does a great job with some terrible acting and almost no budget, and in the end it's one of those films whose charm outweighs its shortcomings.

This plot was done numerous times, where a group of every day people find themselves the last survivors of some sort of invasion. In this case, they were hidden away somewhere through some circumstance (one is a test pilot). Anyway, they find each other among a mass of bodies on the streets of a little town in England. They begin trying to figure out what to do, but have some trouble listening to one another. It turns out there are space men out there in typical garb for their stereotypical sixties roots. They have the ability to touch people and kill them (later they turn into zombies). One of them is more enterprising than the others and the way this finally concludes is a bit much. But it keeps one's attention for a B scifi movie.

Terence Fisher, veteran Hammer Film Studios director, directed this strange science fiction tale that sees a returning astronaut shocked to discover the Earth seemingly deserted, and being invaded by clunky-looking robots! He does encounter some survivors, who tell him what they know about the invasion, and so plan a counter-attack to defeat these robots. Even at just over an hour, this is a remarkably slow, tedious film, with cardboard characters and a clichéd, ineffectual storyline. Title is laughable considering what goes on in the film! Was produced by the same British company(Lippert) that had made the equally poor "Curse Of The Fly". Forget it.