Solidrariol
Am I Missing Something?
Ogosmith
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Sarita Rafferty
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
soulexpress
Did you know that the Earth's crust and upper mantle are hollow, with beautiful stalactites and stalagmites, not to mention flat floors graded just right for people to walk on? Did you also know that our planet's core temperature is cooler than its surface? I didn't either, until I saw this exercise in scientific accuracy.Dr. Jeremiah Morley, a world-renowned geologist, is convinced that nuclear war is imminent. (He never explains why he believes that, nor does it occur to anyone to ask.) He and his team of experts design an earth-burrowing vehicle called a Cyclotram, which Morley describes as "a submarine with the ability of a tractor." (I think it looks like a Studebaker, but never mind.) Using the Cyclotram, they will drill hundreds of miles into the earth in the hope of locating an underground environment where humans could survive an atomic holocaust. Not sure how the Cyclotram can do that with no apparent cooling system, but whatever. Oh, and while we're on the subject: the vehicle's drill bit is entirely too small to make holes big enough for the Cyclotram to fit through. The filmmakers knew at the time that their science was wrong; they just didn't care.Besieged by noxious gasses and magma, the team soon finds its numbers dwindling but vows to continue drilling into the earth. By the time they stop, they've gone 1,640 miles underground—a journey that would take approximately two years in real life. Nothing here indicates that the journey took anywhere nearly that long, especially since the Cyclotram could not have held enough provisions to sustain seven people for two years.UNKNOWN WORLD spends its 75-minute running time doing nothing. Since this is ostensibly science fiction (more like anti-science fiction), one might think there would be cheesy-looking monsters in the Earth's core for the Morley Expedition to fight. But no. That would make things potentially interesting, and we certainly can't have that. Factor in the lousy acting typical of low-budget '50s sci-fi, and you have a pointless endeavor ideal for young couples at the drive-in to ignore as they make out in the car (possibly a Studebaker).
bnwfilmbuff
Dull outing about a group of scientists and a financier embarking on a journey to find a refuge to escape what they have determined to be near certain nuclear holocaust by drilling into the earth. Reminiscent of "At The Earth's Core", this has none of the charm of that movie. Instead it focuses on a lot of pseudo scientific mumbo jumbo. The group goes down in a special vehicle called a Cyclotram but it doesn't do much. Much of the movie appears to be shot in a cave. There is the requisite conflict between the financier and one of the scientist. Nothing happens in this. Bad waste of time.
arfdawg-1
This is not as bad a picture as some of the other reviews suggest.I'm not saying it's a great movie, but it IS surprisingly well done for being made with no money.It's an odd movie in that it's not really the kind of sci fi you'd expect. There are no monsters or other creatures.It a straightforward story about finding a alternative place to live in case of nuclear war.It does drag a bit, but it's worth a watch.The plot.Dr. Jerimiah Morley becomes convinced that the world is headed to an inevitable worldwide nuclear war. He organizes an expedition made up of a team of expert scientists and an atomic-powered rock-boring vehicle called a "cyclotram" to find a subterranean environment where holocaust survivors could live indefinitely. When funding falls through, independently rich adventurer Wright Thompson underwrites the project under the condition that he be allowed to go. As the group goes deeper beneath the Earth's crust, personalities clash, tempers flare, and the dangerous journey claims the lives of several expedition members. When they come upon an enormous underground expanse with its own ocean and phosphorescent light, it appears that their goal has been achieved.
moycon
First Incredible Petrified World (See my review), and now Unknown World. It's safe to say that after watching both of these flicks, not a whole lot happens under the earth's crust. After about 6 or 7 tries and a couple chapter skips I was finally able to make it through this movie. There are a few scientists who are members of the Society To Save Mankind (or something similar) that invent a machine to go 1,000 miles into the earths interior to escape the inevitable doomsday brought on by nuclear weapons.First off there is a corkscrew on the front of this machine, one would assume for boring into the earth, however, the corkscrew is about 1/8 the size of the rest of the vehicle behind it, so other than making neat little holes here and there, I dunno what good it would do someone trying to bore through the earth. As luck would have it, there is pretty much a 1,000 mile flat road from the surface of the earth down. Seems it's inside an inactive volcano. (Why these folks didn't just take a pickup truck instead of a vehicle that goes like 3 miles an hour, I dunno) So the scientists and a young chiseled chinned rich boy who funded the mission for his own kicks, start their slow decent.The majority of the movie shows the vehicle driving on a downward slope at an extremely slow rate. Kinda like the movie. Every now and again something very exciting happens, like the group gets thirsty and don't have water and has to find some. Other exciting bits include climbing down a rock. I don't want to give away the ending, but the CORE looks a lot like the surface, except you can't procreate down there for some reason, so every decides to head back up. I think the moral was the grass isn't always greener? Or maybe it's that doesn't matter what we do now that we have nuclear weapons we're all screwed.I would recommend this movie if you are suffering from insomnia. It put me to sleep within 10 minutes more than once and is prefect for those nights when you just can't seem to get any sleep. Zzzzzz
