Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent but underrated film

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

If you look past all the plot holes and things that just don't make sense,you still have a terrible movie here. A guy has invented a machine that can send things to the future and apparently future people have these machines and they send stuff back. One guy decides to send his phi beta kappa key into the future(because they are very unimportant) and the future sends back a coin asking for help.When a woman from the future comes through the machine she makes it clear that she can read Greek yet she has no clue what a phi beta kappa key is.The only good thing is that people in the future can rip off a persons face and use it as their own,brilliant.

This is the first time reviewing a movie featured on MST3K, but I do not let Mike and the bots influence my opinion on the movie. I have seen some pretty good movies on that show, and the hilarious riffing just enhanced it. This movie, however, was really bad, like most movies featured on the show.I think the worst thing about this movie is the pacing. Basically a guy finds some statue thingy, which he uses some kind of weird science to determine it's from the future, and then nothing really happens for half the movie. There's nothing wrong with a slow- building thriller, but there's no tension in the first half. Sure we get some pointless subplot about a love triangle or something, but this is a movie obviously marketed as a sci fi thriller. How about some thrills? Those of you patient enough to get to the titular "Terror" will at least be treated with some cool make up effects, which is basically the only reason I gave it a three instead of a one. But other than that, the second half doesn't have much thrills either.But enough of the pacing, let's talk about some of the filmmaking. Like I said before, there's some good make-up near the end. But the person wearing the make up was in a really stupid costume, but I can't really explain much more without ruining the film. There was some on location shooting that appears to be shot at night, without much lighting, so it was too dark to see what was happening at times. There was also lots of padding, with pointless shots of driving and walking, and a couple over long scenes with a scientist and a time machine being, uh, scientist-y. As for the acting, it was wooden, but the average amount of wood you'd find in a b-movie.I would recommend the MST3K episode, but this movie is probably unwatchable without it.

Of all the horror movies that I subjected myself to in the sixties, this was the most terrifying. Werewolves, vampires, Frankenstein or aliens didn't phase me. The "lady from the future" as we call her to this day, scared the crap out of us. If we were out playing at night, she was behind every tree. That vision haunted me until I was somewhere in my 20s. I have not seen the movie since around 63 and it may make me laugh today, but that was the most horrifying creature they ever came up with as far as I am concerned. From the time she exited that water heater with a window until she was sprawled out on that table at the end, all I wanted was for her to be gone.

Scientests living in rural Florida build a teleportation device that brings out a freaky woman from the year 5000 A.D.Admittedly Terror from the Year 5000 is a completely hokey low-budgeter, but it's one of those old drive-in flicks that has an unintentionally funny edge that makes it a riot of a watch. The effects are all very low budget, after all our villain is a weird screeching woman in a sequined suit! The cast is OK, but everything else is a bit silly!Still those that enjoy old schlock flicks will find it a decent laugh.** out of ****