This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

*Spoiler/plot- In the year 2889, 1967. A small family has a special rural home and provisions to survive after a nuclear war. After a nuclear war incident the home and family are faced with coping with new people and problems that threaten their survival.*Special Stars- Paul Peterson.*Theme- Teamwork and planning can overcome problems.*Trivia/location/goofs- Remake of a previous good film, 'The Day the World Ended'.*Emotion- I did not enjoy this film after seeing it's original one, 'The Day the World Ended'. The roles and casting were updated from the original film shot in the early 50's to late 60's casting; the stripper became a dancer, the hood became the dancer's manager, the prospector became a local cattleman and so on. As such, the character's were less interesting and therefore boring.*Based On- A Jules Verne short story of the same title.

If the end of the world is as dull as this movie, people will wish that they'll be at ground zero when the missiles drop instead of suffering through the fate of these actors in the making of this movie. The movie centers around a retired Navy man, his pretty twenty-something year old daughter, and a handful of unexpected house guests. They are the human survivors of a nuclear holocaust, only because the lucky location of their home somehow protects them from the nuclear fallout. However, they are menaced by mutants who drunkenly stagger around in the woods, munching on local game animals. When the game animals run out, the survivors suspect that they're next on the menu for the mutants.There's a good deal of tension and bickering among the survivors. The "good" characters are the retired Navy man (John), his daughter (Joanna), and a respectable drop-in guest named Steve. The "bad" characters are Steve's somewhat irradiated brother, an alcoholic neighbor named Tim (who's never far from his jug of moonshine), a stripper (!) and her lecherous manager/boyfriend who takes a liking to Joanna. Other cast include the monster, which looks like a guy wearing a cheap Halloween mask and a tattered business suit.Despite the movie title, don't expect anything at all to look futuristic. Apparently all manner of technological progress and fashion stand still for 922 years in this movie. The hair styles and clothes are very much mid-sixties, the house looks like a nice suburban home from the sixties, and the guns are regular pistols like what you'd expect to see from mid 20th century, not late 29th century.The eye candy of this movie is the innocent character of Joanna, played by pretty actress Charla Doherty. Tragically, Charla Doherty died of complications from alcoholism in 1988 at the age of 41. RIP

I stumbled across this film on Encore Action the other late night, and was surprised to see that it's a complete remake of the original sf film "The Day the World Ended" (1955). Even the dialogue is almost word-for-word. Ironically, this version though colorful just doesn't grab the viewer. The characters seem one dimensional (the original features two-dimension characters). The cast of this film are virtually cardboard cutouts. The cast from the 1955 version featured bit actors like Touch Connors (better known as Mike Conners in recent years) and Richard Denning and they outshone this inept cast completely. I would recommend skipping this version altogether and looking up the original, preferably the wide screen format as opposed to the 16mm print that seems to be running on AMC these days.

This is a very low budget remake of THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED--a film about a tiny group who have somehow survived nuclear annihilation. Considering that it was made by Larry Buchanan, it's no surprise that the film not only stinks but is rather boring. This is the same guy who managed to make MARS NEEDS WOMEN dull--and which a title like this, how could you possibly make it dull?! This is the same director who is seldom mentioned in the pantheon of bad directors but should--producing films that even Ed Wood would be ashamed of making!! The film begins just after a worldwide nuclear war. Practically everyone is dead but a small oasis of life exists all thanks to an explanation that really never made any sense. But, the old guy who explains it all seems to know what he's talking about, as he's got provisions and plans on surviving along with his daughter. However, several survivors straggle in as well as there just isn't enough food for them all AND a couple of the survivors are obvious scum--so obvious that you wonder why anyone would bother to save them! Well, with the help of one of the 'nice' survivors (Paul Peterson from "The Donna Reed Show"), they do their best to conserve the food and fight against mutants (why are there ALWAYS mutants?).Despite mutants and nuclear war and a stripper and her evil (and horny) boyfriend, Buchanan manages to make a film that seems about 20 minutes too long. The pacing is like lead and the film is so cheaply made that there really are never any thrills or excitement. While not among the very worst films I have seen, it's definitely close and only of interest to bad movie fans.This film was recently released along with another Buchanan 'classic'--IT'S ALIVE. Both are excruciatingly terrible films, but somehow IT'S ALIVE manages to provide a small amount of entertainment--something IN THE YEAR 2889 never even comes close to doing.