I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

That Christopher Lee wanted to put Hammer Films behind him after two decades of solid service is perhaps understandable given that, as he is reported to have claimed, the quality of parts being offered to him within that stable had steadily deteriorated over the last few years. However, considering that what awaited him outside its boundaries was generally more of the same – only cheaper still and mostly downright exploitative – the choice may not have been a wise one! As it happened, the famed British company was actually on its last legs and, indeed, their last horror outing (before the recent, rather low-key revival) would prove to be the maligned TO THE DEVIL…A DAUGHTER (1976), co-starring Lee in the role of an evil priest.That alone should have spelled disaster for the movie under review as Lee was again called upon to don the habit – in the promising first scene of technological mayhem in a small-town café – not to mention play a dual role, to no evident benefit, this time as the leader of a small alien community (his cohorts, hiding with him inside the safety of a convent, under the guise of nuns!) bent on destroying Earth before its 'excesses' throw the entire Universe in chaos!! That is basically it for this truly lame sci-fi effort – seldom has the impending apocalypse been depicted so dully, uneventfully and unimaginatively! To add insult to injury, the producers managed to recruit a serviceable cast – Sue Lyon (far removed from her signature role in Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA {1962}) and old-timers Dean Jagger, Lew Ayres and Macdonald Carey – but then forgot to give them anything at all worthwhile to do. For instance, the leading lady simply tags along (throwing an occasional, and most unconvincing, hysterical fit) with hero Kirk Scott – whose help is somehow sought by the enemy in getting back home (is that not a tired concept, one which I have always found ludicrous to begin with!) – on his mission to thwart Lee's plans, but she could just as well have stayed home for all the good she does him or his cause! The script, too, does not even attempt to explain itself: coded messages from outer space precede natural disasters occurring here on Earth (are they meant as fair warning before complete annihilation, or just a gratuitous display of the latest – albeit by-now cumbersome – computer machinery?); Lee is confronted with the callous murder of seven innocent people to achieve his aims, and he can only (straight-facedly, mind you) reason thus: "We had no choice – there was a malfunction in the negative velocity!" … come again?! However, what really sinks this is the climax: the protagonists not only never bother to alert the proper authorities about the imminent threat to our planet – but they even turn traitors and, by escaping through a convenient time-warp, join their opponents' ranks (truly a case of "if you cannot beat them…")!

Confused, self-contradicting aliens who really need to Google "cloning" – or at least ask Ed Wood what he thinks it means."What are we going to do now?" the beautiful Sue Lyon asks her stupid husband. "The only thing we can do: go it alone." Well, of course; whenever faced with alien invaders far more powerful than you, the best thing – and the "only" thing – to do is to "go it alone". Ever consider reporting your findings to your superiors, to CIA – to the KGB, for that matter? Of course not – when one is an imbecile one "goes it alone". Here we have a moron with actual SCIENTIFIC evidence that aliens are among us, but he decides to fight them on his own. Well, not quite: he's got his equally ineffectual wife to help him defeat them. And then he wonders why his plan fails and the Earth ends up exploding like a cheap tennis-ball-sized prop! Duh.I also have a bone to pick with this whole "cloning" business. Lee and his nuns are supposed to be clones – and yet one of the nuns briefly shows a lizard-like alien limb. Perhaps the writer of EOTW is confused about the admittedly INCREDIBLY complex term "to clone". It's very likely he thinks that cloning is the process of dressing up as another person – in which case any masked ball would automatically become a clone ball and every Halloween has millions of young clones seeking sweets. These aliens aren't clones; they're merely disguised as humans. That's all. Besides, if they're such adept cloners, then why didn't they simply clone the guards at the science institute? That would certainly be a much more efficient and easier way to attain those whateveritistheywerelookingfors. No, the story isn't particularly well thought out. "Earth is poisoning the universe with its disease, so it must be destroyed". This is the kind of dialogue we've come to love and expect from Ed Wood's movies. In fact, he couldn't have written it any "better" himself. Funnier yet, only 5 minutes after informing the humans that Earth will be annihilated, "cloned" alien Lee tells the dumb scientist and his lovely wife "it's a pity that you cannot come with us, because on our planet your talents are used to build, not to destroy": this, coming from an alien who had just helped orchestrate the destruction of an entire planet, and for no logical reason than some cockamamie vague B-movie pseudo-science theory about "disease spreading throughout the universe". What, like Ed's solarbonite?Made in 1978, but plays out like a low-budget 1957 flick. This is dumb B-movie fare. And slow as hell. Almost nothing happens in the first half-hour. This plot could have been easily compressed into a 23-minute episode of "The Twilight Zone". A very weak episode, I might add, because this much bad logic is rare in that show.To give you an idea how cheesy EOTW is, the last scene has Earth blowing up like a firecracker. Ed Wood could not have done it better than that.

The Earth is destined to be no more thanks to Father Pergado and a bunch of Nuns. Christopher Lee (who has since said that he was duped in to appearing in this by his producers who told him loads of great actors were involved) is Father Pergado and gets to do his usual serious and scary routine. The cast are not too bad, though most have now retired from acting. The film has terrible sound effects (mainly created from pressing keys on an old computer it seems) and it ridiculously pondering at times - showing a scene of the sky, for instance, for what feels like hours at a time. Despite this the story is pretty humorous in a world-is-doomed sort of way and the production is adequate. Interestingly one scene features Albert Band and wife Jackie; Meda Band; Writer Frank Ray Perilli and Charles Band's assistant Bennah Burton. Despite its plodding nature I genuinely wanted to see how it all worked out and thus quite liked it.

I love B science fiction/Horror movies & Christopher Lee is a legend but this was so bad it was actually funny! Acting is bad, soundtrack is bad, extra's bad, sound effects bad, special effects bad & it's very boring! Especially for 1977. Check it out if you want to waste almost 2 hours of your life or just for laughs if you are a die hard movie fan etc. On the good side, the TV screens at the end of the movie with every part of the planet going to hell being destroyed by floods, storms, earthquakes etc & viewed on these screens looked pretty eerie and I thought this was a nice idea for shock value for this scene & freaked me out as a kid visually but it was filmed poorly. Also the movie poster is a creative Idea. I can understand why Christopher Lee did not like being in this movie. I think they can redo this movie as a remake better this time around in this era of movie's in our lifetime. I would like to remake this and maybe use Christopher Lee again! God bless him he is still alive!