Kronos
by Kurt Neumann
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Actor: Barbara Lawrence, George O'Hanlon, Jeff Morrow, John Emery, Morris AnkrumDirector: Kurt Neumann
Brand: Image Entertainment
Producer: Kurt Neumann
Producer: E.J. Baumgarten
Producer: Irving Block
Writer: Irving Block
Producer: Jack Rabin
Producer: Louis DeWitt
Writer: Lawrence L. Goldman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 78 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-08-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Kronos
Movie Review: It tried so hard to be serious...
Summary: 3 Stars
The premise is somewhat laughable, but it's definitely different. If you like cheese, this is a whole block of it.
Warning, spoilers. Let's skip to the end of the movie. The vastly powerful robot is on the very outskirts of Los Angeles. It's attacking the city. The Scientists have concocted a brilliant plan (made of solid, pulsing pseudoscience, which they happen to have a great deal of), and put it into action. It causes the robot to self-destruct. And when it self-destructs, it's a big event, involving footage adapted from a large nuclear blast.
Did they forget the robot was on the outskirts of LA? Millions, presumably, killed? Apparently they did, because the scientists are all smiles and looking forward to trotting back to their lab, with not one word about the apparently epic casualties. In a movie that tried so hard to be serious, you'd think they would have spared LA, or at least noticed it was gone...
With holes in the plot you could stomp a mega-robot through, enough pseudoscience to choke a glowing alien spirit, and an alien horror that really should have been called The Art Deco Menace, you can't go wrong with this one, for a 3$ rental.
Summary of Kronos
Scientists at a "Top Secret" atomic research laboratory are taken over by strange fantastic control devices launched from an orbiting space ship inhabited by a hostile super-intelligence from beyond the stars. Simultaneously, a gigantic flying saucer crashes in the Gulf of Mexico and Kronos, a giant metallic monolith monster, emerges. Unstoppable, it slashes across the countryside, draining the earth of all it's electrical energy and beaming it into space. Kronos, a weapon so perfect in design it absorbs a direct hit by a Hydrogen bomb and becomes that much more powerful! Atomic age excitement! Atomic age thrills! All in out-of-this-world "Regalscope" format for the first time on DVD.Astronomer and all-around scientific hero Jeff Morrow (he of the stone face, Cro-Magnon brow, and heavy voice of dire intonation) discovers a new celestial body that suddenly changes course and slams into the Pacific Ocean off the Mexican coast. Meanwhile a mysterious white light takes over the body of lab director John Emery, who becomes the eyes and ears of the UFO when it emerges days later as a skyscraper-sized robot. Morrow and his crew--including his beauty-with-brains girlfriend, Barbara Lawrence; wisecracking sidekick, George O'Hanlan; and computer, SUSIE, which whirs and blinks but offers little real help--leap to the rescue, but not before the Mexican air force takes on the giant in a scene reminiscent of King Kong. Director Kurt Neumann, best known for the original The Fly, gives this low-budget sci-fi thriller an impressive scope, sending the striking, austerely designed giant robot (a walking battery with piledriver legs) marching across a B&W widescreen frame like a relentless tank and punctuating the drama with an impressively chilling A-bomb blast. Though hardly a classic, this is one of the more interesting alien invasion movies of the paranoid 1950s. --Sean Axmaker
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