SnoReptilePlenty
Memorable, crazy movie
BoardChiri
Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
Roxie
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
MartinHafer
AIP and 2.5 statue 5200 ad Florida swamps future---medallion asking for helpCurrently, "Terror From the Year 5000" has an abominably low score of 2.5. This would indicate that this is a truly horrible film...but it isn't. Now I am not saying it's a good movie, but the picture clearly is suffering from "Mystery Science Theater 3000" syndrome. In other words, when a film is made fun of my the show, huge numbers of the viewers of the show go online and bombard IMDb with scores of 1. If you look at the bottom 100 films on IMDb, you'll also see that nearly all of the American films from the 1950s, 60s and 70s were skewered on that TV show as well. Often, much worse films manage to stay off the list simply because of exposure. So, if you are looking for a film as wretched as "Plan 9 From Outer Space" or "Robot Monster", well, you should keep looking.The film is about a weird experiment going on in the middle of nowhere in Florida. Why this odd location? Because the project requires so much energy it would tend to interfere with the equipment of folks living nearby. And what IS this huge power draw for....well, to make contact with folks from the future! Eventually, they are able to bring objects from the year 5200! And, a bit later, they get a medallion that is begging for help! So is this future trying to contact us? And, is this a good thing? Now I am not going to say that this is a great film. The 'monster' is silly but there are much worse examples from the era. Overall, an okay movie but certainly not an awful picture. The acting and direction are competent...not really good, but competent.
kapelusznik18
****SPOILERS**** It's not just the mutant human beings of the year 5200 AD that need to be saved but those of us watching this turkey that takes the cake in being one of the worst horror or anything else movie ever released. I have to say that Salome Jens in her motion film debut is as hot as Kryptonite as the woman from the future when she takes on the appearance of the nurse that's sent to the off shore Florida island to care for the stricken from radiation Victor, John Stratton, whom she in fact infected with that deadly illness. It's Victor who played fast and loose with his girlfriend Claire, Joyce Holden, father Prof. Howard Lering's, Frederic Down's, time machine that brought this deadly calamity upon himself.As for Salome or the woman from the future her task was to bring the at first young and viral Victor back to the future to do, in finding no other word to call it, stud duty to replenish the by then dying off human race.You see after thousands of years of nuclear testing the radiation of those atomic teats has mutated the human DNA causing mutations that got to the point where one out of five babies being born were seriously defected and mutated. Now Solome or future women in her being brought back to the year 1958, the year that the film was released, was or is going to change all that.****SPOILERS*** Miss. Jens, a gem of a woman, was seen throughout the entire movie, not counting her impersonation of a nurse, in a tight fitting and sexy looking jumpsuit covered with what looked like dozens of shiny rhinestones who's reflection of whatever light was available made it difficult to see her. In fact Solome was so obviously strange and sinister looking that it was unusual that no one in the cast realized what she was really up to until, for Victor, it was too late. One of Salome's victims was the island handy man Angelo, Fred Harrick, who in what seemed like him trying to pick her up and make conversation with her ended up being radiated to death instead. The final scenes had Victor finally realized that he's being used by Solome, who hypnotized him, to do her not his bidding and caused him to revolt against her and finally put an end to all this back and forth to the future hysterics.
Gafke
On an isolated island deep in the swamps of...Florida, I think?... Professor Erling and his assistant Victor are tampering with Gods domain, namely the Time Barrier. Behind the closed doors of their basement lab, the two men believe they have been contacted by people from the future, who send them silly looking statues and bowling trophies. Professor Erling's strong-willed daughter Claire decides to send one of the sillier statues to museum curator Bob. Bob somehow manages to carbon date the statue to the year 5000 AD, and discovers in the process that it is highly radioactive. Intrigued, Bob heads down to the swamps for answers. Victor, the uptight lab assistant, has been running his own secret experiments with the time transport thingie in secret and, unbeknownst to the others, has unleashed the Terror From the Year 5000!!! Really, it's just a really ugly chick in a sequined spandex disco suit, but she is very deadly and she wants Victor to accompany her to the future and save her nuclear decimated race of freaks. Fortunately, the astute Claire notices the Terror's hideous silver spike heels and realizes that such shoes can only be FROM THE FUTURE!!! Will they be able to save Victor? More importantly, can they prevent the post- apocalyptic fate that awaits them all? Who cares?This is a silly, senseless film with a threadbare plot and some very laughable moments...like the hilarious plot point of the futuristic pumps. No one is very likable: Claire is stridently annoying, Victor is a wuss, Bob is a dork. Who cares if they live or die? I can't believe that Salome Jens went from this to "Seconds" with Rock Hudson. The script is atrocious and the love triangle is just icky. Stick with the MST3K version. This film is dreadful, embarrassing, boring and just really painfully stupid.
pmsusana
RE: The DVD edition of 1958's "Terror From the Year 5000" recently issued by Incredibly Strange Film Works (ISFW) of Jamestown, MO: Those of you who've been waiting for a pristine-quality DVD edition of this fun Sci-Fi oldie will have to go on waiting. The very fuzzy picture and sound quality (with contrasts so bad that some night scenes are nearly impossible to make out) make this ISFW DVD a big disappointment, especially considering the $24.99 price tag! (The Horror/Sci-Fi fans among you may also remember ISFW's equally unsatisfactory VHS video edition of 1964's "Horror of Party Beach", mastered from a toned-down TV print with all the gore removed!)I'd say that any DVD or VHS video bearing the ISFW logo should be approached with caution.
