Simply Perfect

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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.

There's really little to laugh with or at in this ridiculous science fiction film that opens with a promising start as briefly seen extras all of a sudden die suddenly without no apparent reason. Survivors gather together to try and figure out what has been going on, only to be confronted by what appear to be astronauts but definitely are not. Then, when one of the survivors suddenly is killed (after being tapped on the shoulder by one of the supposed aliens), she returns from the dead with ping-pong ball eyes (like a demonic Little Orphan Annie), as do other monsters walking towards the other survivors like Tor Johnson did in "Plan Nine From Outer Space". It doesn't matter that the writer leaves out tons of details and leaves the plot entirely open, it's simply that the film is excessively dull and pointless, much better done in the same year's "The Last Man on Earth" which was the source of "The Omega Man" and "I am Survivor".

Might have been a more accurate title. I've really never understood in these British horror and sci-fi film when all these fantastic things are happening and everyone is so calm about it.The characters being way too calm with the near genocide of the human race aside, this actually is a fairly effective film. The setup is that there is some kind of gas attack and everyone just falls over and dies, save a few characters who happen to be in hermetically sealed situations. So there's a rather effective opening sequence where vehicles crash and people drop dead.The culprits are robots in space suits working for an unseen power. And that's kind of the beauty of the story, you don't know why and it isn't important. The way the characters interact is.Terrance Fisher directed this, and he was one of those directors who could do a lot with a very little, as we would see with many of his Hammer films. He is able to make the hokiest monsters this side of Doctor Who look threatening with music, pacing, camera work and actor reactions. Big budget directors have done far less with far more.

Best Title Ever Saw this film last night and it goes down as a classic noir horror.During the early 60s the Brits make a bunch of truly great horror films which all featured an American hero and great black and white photography. 'These Are the Damned,' 'Bunny Lake Is Missing' just to name a few.'The Earth Dies Screaming' follows a rather typical end of the world zombie horror film. All over England people instantly drop dead. On the quite earth the few survivors start linking up and all realize they survived due to their isolation from the general air during the presumed gas attack.Is the gas attack, natural, foreign, or alien? Are the survivors generally innocent bystanders as they claim or is one of them a spy? To make matters worse the survivors soon encounter killer bullet proof robots in space suits. Even worse and scarier than the robots themselves are their victims whom come back as zombies.At only 60 minutes the film moves at a much faster pace than other quiet earth films. And the scenes are very intense and terrifying. They really do a great job of keeping you on the edge of your seat by their presentation. The zombies may just look like dumb sleep walkers but in the proper presentation they come across as truly terrorizing.Great musical score and photography.

That admittedly great title is something of a misnomer. In 1965's "The Earth Dies Screaming," our good planet doesn't quite expire with a scream, a bang or even a T.S. Eliot whimper; rather, it is simply put to a quiet death by an alien gas attack. In the film, we meet what appears to be the last seven people left alive, who converge in a quaint village in what we must infer is northern England. There is an American jet pilot (played by Willard Parker, a likable, rugged actor in the Forrest Tucker mode), an attractive, middle-aged woman (Virginia Field, Parker's real-life wife), a weasly cad (the always impeccable Dennis Price), a drunken older couple and a pregnant young couple. This septet has its hands full avoiding the lumbering, helmeted robots that the aliens have sent down, as well as the blank-eyed, reanimated corpses of the once-living! The film features moody B&W photography, typically taut and suspenseful direction by Hammer Studios legend Terence Fisher (although the film in question here is a product of Shepperton), and several gripping sequences. In one, the newly zombified Violet (of the older couple) makes a very jolting nighttime appearance; in another, attractive Peggy plays cat and mouse in a house filled with buzzing robots and the empty-orbed undead. Unfortunately, "The Earth Dies Screaming," with a running time of only 62 minutes, is a bit on the skimpy side, with an inadequately fleshed-out script. We never DO find out the mysterious motivations of Dennis Price's character, or even learn anything about the alien invaders (or even get to SEE them!). Far from overstaying its welcome, the film ends way too suddenly, and will leave most viewers thinking, "WTF? That's it?" Still, what IS on the screen is pretty much dynamite!