Target Earth
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Movie Reviews of Target Earth
Movie Review: Great 50's Science Fiction!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has all the great 1950's cheesy, science fiction shlock. The corny robot monster is worth the price of the DVD! If you love B movies, you must get this one!Movie Review: I remember
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember watching this when I was about 8 years old. Scared the day-lights out of me. I get a kick out of reviewing these old films.Movie Review: DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Purchased for disbled brother. Quick shipment, great price. Would purchase other movies in the future. He loved the movie...Movie Review: Independent psychological film just happens to resemble sci-fi
Summary: 4 Stars
Story opens on a scene from the air zeroing in on L.A. and slowing down to silently show an unconscious woman (Kathleen Crowley); beside her is a half empty bottle of sleeping pills.
The story is of a hand full of people who wake up to find the city is empty of humankind that is live human kind, they must piece together the missing parts to the puzzle they must learn to cooperate with each other and huddle together.
Soon they will realize that they are at ground zero on "Target Earth."
The film has all the feel and dialog of an old twilight zone episode, However the actors of frontline majors. Virginia Grey was in over 140 movies and programs including "Bachelor in Paradise" (1961). Richard Denning was in "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954).
The whole movie was made on a shoestring budget so they only had one robot (Steve Calvert the head bartender at Cerro's nightclub) that they tinkered together in a garage. The car (Oldsmobile convertible) with the dead uh...err... battery belonged to the producer (Herman Cohen.) And they used a buddy in the police forces to stop the traffic for the empty street shots. All shot in seven days, mostly in the deserted L.A. streets on a Sunday morning.
One of the most horrifying parts of this movie was that they were forced to drink warm beer.
Kronos
Movie Review: A Classic 1950s Sci-Fi Flick - Cheesy But Entertaining
Summary: 4 Stars
This film terrified me when I first saw it at the age of 9, but I doubt it will terrify anyone who has been raised in the era of sophisticated special effects. Nonetheless, it is a short (75 minutes), entertaining, and fun movie that captures the mood generated by the 1950s flying saucer scares.
The story centers on Nora and Frank, two strangers who've been left behind while the city was evacuated in response to an unknown (to them) threat. The eerie opening music creates the mood as Nora wakes from the stupor of an attempted suicide via sleeping pills. Alarmed to discover that both her rooming house and the entire city (as seen through her window) seem to be deserted, she gets dressed and goes off in search of someone.
With overhead photography worthy of Hitchcock, we follow Nora through the streets as she stumbles upon a dead body and eventually meets Frank, an out-of-town businessman who was also left behind after being mugged and knocked out the previous evening. They join forces, and eventually meet up with a drunken, bickering couple in an abandoned nightclub.
Together the four go outside, determined to find a way out of town. It is then that they have their first encounter with the invaders, robots from space armed with a deadly heat ray. Here is where you have to suspend judgment about the primitive special effects, but the rest of the movie is fast-paced and suspenseful, right up to the end.