Nice effects though.

It is a performances centric movie

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

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.

On an isolated island deep in the swamps of...Florida, I think?... Professor Erling and his assistant Victor are tampering with Gods domain, namely the Time Barrier. Behind the closed doors of their basement lab, the two men believe they have been contacted by people from the future, who send them silly looking statues and bowling trophies. Professor Erling's strong-willed daughter Claire decides to send one of the sillier statues to museum curator Bob. Bob somehow manages to carbon date the statue to the year 5000 AD, and discovers in the process that it is highly radioactive. Intrigued, Bob heads down to the swamps for answers. Victor, the uptight lab assistant, has been running his own secret experiments with the time transport thingie in secret and, unbeknownst to the others, has unleashed the Terror From the Year 5000!!! Really, it's just a really ugly chick in a sequined spandex disco suit, but she is very deadly and she wants Victor to accompany her to the future and save her nuclear decimated race of freaks. Fortunately, the astute Claire notices the Terror's hideous silver spike heels and realizes that such shoes can only be FROM THE FUTURE!!! Will they be able to save Victor? More importantly, can they prevent the post- apocalyptic fate that awaits them all? Who cares?This is a silly, senseless film with a threadbare plot and some very laughable moments...like the hilarious plot point of the futuristic pumps. No one is very likable: Claire is stridently annoying, Victor is a wuss, Bob is a dork. Who cares if they live or die? I can't believe that Salome Jens went from this to "Seconds" with Rock Hudson. The script is atrocious and the love triangle is just icky. Stick with the MST3K version. This film is dreadful, embarrassing, boring and just really painfully stupid.

RE: The DVD edition of 1958's "Terror From the Year 5000" recently issued by Incredibly Strange Film Works (ISFW) of Jamestown, MO: Those of you who've been waiting for a pristine-quality DVD edition of this fun Sci-Fi oldie will have to go on waiting. The very fuzzy picture and sound quality (with contrasts so bad that some night scenes are nearly impossible to make out) make this ISFW DVD a big disappointment, especially considering the $24.99 price tag! (The Horror/Sci-Fi fans among you may also remember ISFW's equally unsatisfactory VHS video edition of 1964's "Horror of Party Beach", mastered from a toned-down TV print with all the gore removed!)I'd say that any DVD or VHS video bearing the ISFW logo should be approached with caution.