End of the World

1977 "There is everything to look forward to...except tomorrow"
3.1| 1h28m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 01 August 1977 Released
Producted By: Charles Band Productions
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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After witnessing a man's death in a bizzare accident, Father Pergado goes on a spiritual retreat, where he encounters his alien double bent on world conquest.

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John Hayes

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Charles Band Productions

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End of the World Audience Reviews

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
UnowPriceless hyped garbage
Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?
FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
jacobjohntaylor1 This is not a good movie. This is awful. It is not scary. It has an awful story line. The title give away the ending so it has an awful ending. Do not see this movie. Aliens are trying to end world because they do like. Because people are always each other. Better kill all the people so they do not like them slaves. This is one of worst science fiction movies ever. Do not see it.
MARIO GAUCI That Christopher Lee wanted to put Hammer Films behind him after two decades of solid service is perhaps understandable given that, as he is reported to have claimed, the quality of parts being offered to him within that stable had steadily deteriorated over the last few years. However, considering that what awaited him outside its boundaries was generally more of the same – only cheaper still and mostly downright exploitative – the choice may not have been a wise one! As it happened, the famed British company was actually on its last legs and, indeed, their last horror outing (before the recent, rather low-key revival) would prove to be the maligned TO THE DEVIL…A DAUGHTER (1976), co-starring Lee in the role of an evil priest.That alone should have spelled disaster for the movie under review as Lee was again called upon to don the habit – in the promising first scene of technological mayhem in a small-town café – not to mention play a dual role, to no evident benefit, this time as the leader of a small alien community (his cohorts, hiding with him inside the safety of a convent, under the guise of nuns!) bent on destroying Earth before its 'excesses' throw the entire Universe in chaos!! That is basically it for this truly lame sci-fi effort – seldom has the impending apocalypse been depicted so dully, uneventfully and unimaginatively! To add insult to injury, the producers managed to recruit a serviceable cast – Sue Lyon (far removed from her signature role in Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA {1962}) and old-timers Dean Jagger, Lew Ayres and Macdonald Carey – but then forgot to give them anything at all worthwhile to do. For instance, the leading lady simply tags along (throwing an occasional, and most unconvincing, hysterical fit) with hero Kirk Scott – whose help is somehow sought by the enemy in getting back home (is that not a tired concept, one which I have always found ludicrous to begin with!) – on his mission to thwart Lee's plans, but she could just as well have stayed home for all the good she does him or his cause! The script, too, does not even attempt to explain itself: coded messages from outer space precede natural disasters occurring here on Earth (are they meant as fair warning before complete annihilation, or just a gratuitous display of the latest – albeit by-now cumbersome – computer machinery?); Lee is confronted with the callous murder of seven innocent people to achieve his aims, and he can only (straight-facedly, mind you) reason thus: "We had no choice – there was a malfunction in the negative velocity!" … come again?! However, what really sinks this is the climax: the protagonists not only never bother to alert the proper authorities about the imminent threat to our planet – but they even turn traitors and, by escaping through a convenient time-warp, join their opponents' ranks (truly a case of "if you cannot beat them…")!
McCaskey This movie was not as bad as many of the critics whom filled out the IMDb.com review suggest.Its main flaw is it take a long time to develop, and there are Dominique like voids of dialogue where the actors must carry the scene with body language.Christopher Lee portrays the main antagonist, a priest who was kidnapped then cloned by aliens who seek to both destroy the Earth (so its diseases cannot spread across the galaxy) and to return to their home planet, in which there is no war, disease or famine.None of the other actors did a particularly good job. Dean Jagger, whom portrays the male protagonist is okay at best, and the female lead is played by Sue Lyon. She is not the best actress of her time, and cannot carry her silent scenes very well compared to Lee or Jagger.Not that Lee or Jagger did exceptionally in this case, but it is a LOT to ask of an actor to carry a silent scene.The plot is very "Twilight Zone", the special effects and sound effects seem to come straight out of the old television Star Trek series.A scene where Jagger removes a contraption the aliens need to return home, in fact, looks almost 100% like the scene that Star Trek 2 the Wrath of Khan would sue when Spock is attempting to fix the ship's warp drive. Eerily similar.Some shots are very Kubrickian featuring drawn back and isolated shots.The story is fair to good, if not very slow to develop.This film lacked about 2 to 3 'steps' to make it a success, but its not a bad way to spend a couple hours.
Cristi_Ciopron Your mind will not be satisfied by this no—budget doomsday thriller; but, pray, who's will? A youngish couple spends the actual end of the world in the hidden laboratory of some aliens masquerading as Church people.Small _apocalyptically themed outing, END OF THE WORLD has the ingenuity and the lack of both brio and style of the purely '50s similar movies. And it's not only that, but EOTW plays like a hybrid—not only doomsday but convent creeps as well. The villain of the movie is a well—known character actor.This wholly shameless slapdash seems a piece of convent—exploitation, that significantly '70s genre which looks today so amusingly outdated. Anyway, the convent's secret laboratory is some nasty piece of futuristic deco! Christopher Lee is the pride of End of the World; but the End of the World is not at all his pride!