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End of the World
USA 1977
produced by Charles Band, Albert Band (executive)
directed by John Hayes
starring Christopher Lee, Sue Lyon, Kirk Scott, Dean Jagger, Lew Ayres, Macdonald Carey, Liz Ross, Jon Van Ness, Kathe Cunha, Mary Daugherty, Evelyn Lipton, Jane Wilbur, Pat Wylie, Roscoe Born, Simmy Bow, John Dennis, Frank Leo, George Soviak, Gene Walker, Ron Carter, David Gold, John Hayes
written by Frank Ray Pirelli, music by Andrew Belling, electronic music programming by Joel Goldsmith
review by Mike Haberfelner
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NASA communications scientist Andrew Boran (Kirk Scott) has just
received weird messages from outer space, messages that seem to predict
earthquakes. And he has found that these messages receive replies - from
earth. But instead of letting him continue his researches, his superiors
send him off on a lecturing trip ... which comes in quite handily, because
this way Boran and his wife Sarah (Sue Lyon) can inconspicuously
investigate the place the signals from earth answering the alien message
came from ... and they find - a convent, run by benign father Pergado
(Christopher Lee), who more than invites them to investigate all they
want. Boran and Sarah find nothing suspicous in the convent, but when
Boran later checks in on the messages to and from outer space, he finds
his visit to the convent reported - so he and his wife return to the place
... and are taken captive. You see, father Pergado and his nuns are aliens
who are stranded on planet earth. Planet earth though is doomed because
the interplanetary council (or something) has decided to blow her up
(hence the predictions of the natural disasters). Thus our aliens want to
desperately leave the planet, but their time warp drive is damaged, and
only a crystal from NASA could fix it ... and thus our alien friends have
lured Boran and Sarah to the convent. Boran and Sarah try to escape but
find the aliens' superhuman powers to strong for them. So Boran breaks
into the (incredibly low security) NASA headquarters to steal the crystal. With
the crystal attached to their time warp drive, the aliens leave the earth,
which is slowly falling apart all around the convent - but as a farewell,
Pergado invites Boran and Susan to accompany him to his planet ... which
they do, just before the world explodes. Rather boring low
budget science fiction film that has little to offer outside from the
expectedly competent performance by Christopher Lee and some almost
inspired electronic musical tracks. The rest is just too much pointless
dialogue, less than great chases, an underwhelming finale (Boran breaking
into NASA headquarters) and a virtual lack of special effects to fatten
things up a bit. Not really good.
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
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a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
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all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
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