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Memorable, crazy movie

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Excellent! This is one of those "so bad they're good" films. These aliens are deadly, frying people as soon as they're close to them. Zap! The screen turns white and the victim lies dead. The aliens also look like plastic bags full of marmalade. Normally, I would give this film a very low rating, but it is miraculously saved by having extremely bad special effects, and a cast including Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Kenneth Cope, and Patrick Allen.Lee looks and acts just like a '60s version of Fox Mulder from THE X-FILES - his room's full of scientific equipment, he wears a shirt and tie, and he's hunting aliens. Cushing has only a small, cameo role but as usual his acting is excellent. Kenneth Cope gets to be a baddie when he goes mad, and Patrick Allen is stolid as always.The men in the cast have ever-increasing sweat stains on their shirts, which look sprayed on, while the women get to gradually strip. I guess the producers were pretty desperate for this film to be a success. People overact as they die, which I love. TVs are subjected to a bad '60s animation of what is supposed to be static, and explode, as do beer bottles (I swear I could see the string as someone was yanking the bottles out of their crate). The aliens appear for all of two minutes before a hasty ending. Sure, the film is relatively actionless, but it's just so cheesy you have to love it.

It doesn't have the classy look of the British horror movies of the period. But it is still a somewhat entertaining movie from the Golden age of British horror.The movie builds the atmosphere slowly and the monsters are never really shown. In the end though, the actual form may be a little disappointing to people. Remember we are living in the post-Alien age, so this kind of low budget stuff may not be pleasing to the eye. But still the buildup is worth it. It is also nice to see the sweaty sexy ladies and ahem...sexy men as well. They are drenched throughout. This might just end up as a guilty pleasure because of all these aspects. There are constant sexual elements throughout as well. But not much in terms of explicit nudity as expected.Frankly I thought the characters were sexist. The dialogue in the love triangle section was ridiculous and corny and it really hampers what could have been a fairly good sci fi thriller. I did not enjoy the annoying dialogue. This is like a time capsule and I just couldn't relate to it all. The ending is strange as well which reminded me of some recent American movies with abrupt endings.Anyway I enjoyed it.6/10

This is a fondly remembered sci-fi horror film that appeared regularly on British network TV in the 1980s . It wasn't the first adaptation of John Lymington's novel and was first made as an ITV teleplay in 1960 which has long been forgotten . One can't help believing that ITV produced the adaptation as opposition to the BBC's QUATERMASS serials and on the surface there is something of a QUATERMASS vibe to NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT . There is a major stylistic difference from the works of Nigel Kneale and this film and that is Nigel Kneale is an astonishingly clever and subtle writer where as NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT while being enjoyable as entertainment is incredibly dumb The major problem with the horror genre - and the reason it's held in low regard by critics - is that in order for the plot to progress logic and continuity must be ignored totally . Think for example how many times you watch a vampire movie the heroes wait until after sun set before deciding to enter the vampire's lair to kill the bad guy . Here we see a similar type of stupidity . Suppose you were being menaced by an alien creature that moves at a speed of a snail what would you do ? Run away or stand around waiting to be burned to death or barricade yourself in to a stone shed/cave with no means to escape and wait to be killed ? Guess what the characters in this film do ? Having never read the original source novel I looked up wikipedia to find that in Lymington's book the alien monsters are giant carnivorous spiders which would make for effective and dangerous monsters than the ones seen here which resemble giant fried eggs yolks . It should be remembered that in 1967 there was no way a film company could make convincing giant spiders on screen but even so the aliens do look totally ridiculous when they finally appear at the end of the movie . And again the lack of internal logic and continuity means they remain unseen by everyone except their victims and manage to appear in a room with closed doors and disappear without being spotted after they've killed someone in said room with closed doors . The solution to the alien invasion is also a major cop out That said it's certainly an enjoyable film for an unquestioning unthinking audience . I certainly have a soft spot for this type of dumb SF horror movie which the British film industry sometimes produces . It's not a Hammer production but has Peter Cushing playing an affable gentleman and Chritopher Lee as an abrasive scientist and features familiar British actors seen in film and television from the period

Also known as "Island of the Burning Doomed", "Island of the Burning Damned", and "Will My Ex-Mistress Ruin My Marriage Just Hours Before Aliens Kill Me?" In the first half of NOTBG one wonders whether the love triangle is the sub-plot in an alien-invasion flick or whether the aliens are a sub-plot in a romantic drama. Nevertheless, I actually enjoyed the first half, more so than the second half, with its finale that was a bit too run-of-the-mill B-movie stuff for my taste.NOTBG has a by-the-numbers plot, resembling dozens of similar, low-budget sci-fi invasion movies. However, the cast is excellent, and there is that late 60s feel to the movie that elevates it above a lot of similar crap that was made much later, such as Spielberg's flashy but moronic "War of the Worlds".Predictably, it was going to be something totally banal that kills the aliens in the end, hence prevents an invasion (unless the outer-space blobs are masochists), either water, fire, air or something that basic. This time it was water; rain, to be precise. The last scene has the married couple hugging and jubilating, which I guess also means their marriage is saved – along with all of mankind. Even the hero's mentally-unstable ex-mistress is hinted to have ended up happily, rejoicing with one of the islanders. Perhaps there's a future for the two? She may not cook and clean, but she's a helluva woman in a swimming costume, and very passionate regardless of whether there are aliens about to heat up the temperature.