GamerTab That was an excellent one.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Victor Knudsen So, I think I have this thing with watching old low-budget sci-fi films. I could spend a whole day watching some of these flicks from the 50's and 60's. "The Earth dies Screaming" is a UK produced science-fiction film released in 1964. As most of this kind of films it follows a very easygoing storyline; After an alien attack some survivors gather up in a small village in England. Even though it is a very weak-kneed story is was not as bad as you think. In the Late 50's and 60's production companies, Hammer and Amicus produced a large number of films like this one. "The Earth Dies Screaming is not a Hammer or an Amicus film, but it still captures the same tone and mood as them. This is not a coincidence because of the director, Terence Fisher, has worked on tons of Hammer's films. "Horror of Dracula" (1958) and "The Curse of Frankestein" (1957) is possible his most famous of all of the numerous films he has directed. Though it was cheesy, it fits in the perfectly right mood of a classic hammer film. With a running time of 62 minuts it is a fun horror/sci-fi film to watch.

Scott LeBrun This decent sci-fi / invasion flick stars token American "name" Willard Parker as Jeff Nolan, a test pilot working in England who discovers that most humans (that he can see, anyway) have been decimated by an alien force (likely a gas attack, as he surmises). He runs into a few other survivors, and they must dodge the robotic characters that are silently stalking around the streets of an eerily quiet country village.Canadian born writer Harry Spalding ("The Watcher in the Woods", "Chosen Survivors") concocted this minor, yet diverting little movie. Film director Terence Fisher, known primarily for his work with the famed Hammer Studios, derives an enjoyable amount of tension from the set-up, even though the automatons don't come across as particularly threatening. (For one thing, they move quite slowly.) The storytelling and the filmmaking are very much to the point - "The Earth Dies Screaming" has no filler and clocks in at barely over an hour long. Some of its tension comes from the fact that one of the humans is an antsy, selfish twit well played by Dennis Price.The whole cast is good. Parker is an efficient, no-nonsense hero, the kind of guy whom you'd be inclined to follow in crisis situations such as this. Virginia Field, Thorley Walters, Vanda Godsell, David Spenser, and Anna Palk all have appeal as the various people whom he encounters. Poor Walters is kind of a tragic character, when you realize that he has to lose somebody he loves more than once.Incidentally, the title is not that accurate but, as people have pointed out, "The Earth Dies Screaming" does sound better than "The Earth Dies Sleeping".Seven out of 10.

jvance83 As a 10 year old, I saw this with my friends as a Saturday matinée at the local theater and it nailed my sci-fi preferences right on the head. We played this one out in the neighborhood in numerous scenarios having a deliciously creepy time dealing with "the guys with the globby eyes", whom we found preferable to the robots as scare factors. I ran across a pirate-copy DVD on-line a couple of years back and couldn't resist. Not surprisingly, the DVD quality stank, but the movie held up remarkably well. It would certainly earn no awards for excellence in any category, but carried a remarkably good atmosphere, particularly the scenes at the village inn. If I could find a better copy, I would most definitely make the investment.

JoeB131 Might have been a more accurate title. I've really never understood in these British horror and sci-fi film when all these fantastic things are happening and everyone is so calm about it.The characters being way too calm with the near genocide of the human race aside, this actually is a fairly effective film. The setup is that there is some kind of gas attack and everyone just falls over and dies, save a few characters who happen to be in hermetically sealed situations. So there's a rather effective opening sequence where vehicles crash and people drop dead.The culprits are robots in space suits working for an unseen power. And that's kind of the beauty of the story, you don't know why and it isn't important. The way the characters interact is.Terrance Fisher directed this, and he was one of those directors who could do a lot with a very little, as we would see with many of his Hammer films. He is able to make the hokiest monsters this side of Doctor Who look threatening with music, pacing, camera work and actor reactions. Big budget directors have done far less with far more.