Starring Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro, Warren Mitchell
Directed by Quentin Lawrence
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
The presence of a mysterious cloud near a mountain where mountain climbers have perished persuades a United Nations agent that a terrible experience from his past is happening again.
I love this picture, a terrific science fiction thriller adapted from Peter Key's television serial, and very well-scripted by Jimmy Sangster, better known for his Hammer horror film screenplays. The mountain scenes, augmented by matte paintings and climbing shots that look authentic, give credibility to the alpine setting, and the cast gives fine performances, with Tucker a soft-spoken but natural hero, Munro a fascinating psychic with hypnotic eyes, and Mitchell a convivial but concerned scientist who's simply wonderful in his role. Suspense is built steadily throughout the picture, heightened by Henry Richardson's sharp editing and Stanley Black's otherworldly music score, and when the film's creatures are finally revealed, they look wonderfully creepy and unsettling, rendered by effects that hold up surprisingly well today.
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Thursday, June 6, 2013
They Came From Beyond Space (1967)
Starring Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Zia Mohyeddin, Bernard Kay, Michael Gough
Directed by Freddie Francis
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
When a team of scientists investigate a group of meteorites that landed on Earth, their bodies are taken over by alien minds that direct them to construct a secret installation.
Based on a novel by Joseph Millard called "The Gods Hate Kansas," the setting is updated for this film to Cornwall, England making that title obsolete. The plot is very reminiscent of the British television serial Quatermass 2, which was also made into a film with the same title, both of which are better than this movie. There are some effective scenes in which the aliens take control of their human bodies and a plague spreads from one victim to another, effectively directed by Francis. I also liked Hutton in the lead role, but the film is rather flatly photographed and unfortunately has a low-budget look and feel the filmmakers can't overcome.
Directed by Freddie Francis
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
When a team of scientists investigate a group of meteorites that landed on Earth, their bodies are taken over by alien minds that direct them to construct a secret installation.
Based on a novel by Joseph Millard called "The Gods Hate Kansas," the setting is updated for this film to Cornwall, England making that title obsolete. The plot is very reminiscent of the British television serial Quatermass 2, which was also made into a film with the same title, both of which are better than this movie. There are some effective scenes in which the aliens take control of their human bodies and a plague spreads from one victim to another, effectively directed by Francis. I also liked Hutton in the lead role, but the film is rather flatly photographed and unfortunately has a low-budget look and feel the filmmakers can't overcome.
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