Starring Richard Denning, Kathleen Crowley, Virginia Grey, Richard Reeves, Robert Roark
Directed by Sherman A. Rose
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
Four strangers find themselves in an evacuated city with no way to flee it, and soon discover that an alien army has taken it over and is stalking them.
A low-budget but effective chiller from producer Herman Cohen, made before his cycle of teen horror films, I've been fond of the picture for a number of years, due to its compelling story, and appealing cast of characters. Denning, Crowley, Grey, and Reeves, as the four principals, are easy to root for, and their plight is well-accentuated by Paul Dunlap's effective score. Although budgetary limitations require some still frames of the empty city and the use of military stock footage, and the likely use of one alien construct to stand in for hundreds, the human drama is suspensefully paced and well-directed, making it easy to see why elements of the story made it into later films like Day The World Ended and The Earth Dies Screaming.
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