Christopher Lee, the main selling point of this movie, said, "Some of the films I've been in I regret making. I got conned into making these pictures in almost every case by people who lied to me. Some years ago, I got a call from my producers saying that they were sending me a script and that five very distinguished American actors were also going to be in the film. Actors like José Ferrer, Dean Jagger, and John Carradine. So I thought "Well, that's all right by me". But it turned out it was a complete lie. Appropriately the film was called End Of The World."
The film opens with a shaken Lee as a Catholic priest trying to get to a phone call. All hell breaks loose and a diner is destroyed, with the owner blinded by coffee before being killed and the pay phone being blown up. Turns out that Father Pergado is due to be replaced by the alien Zindar. Good start. And it was the trailer, filled with science fiction machines and evil nuns that got me interested in this picture!
Professor Andrew Boran discovers radio signals that predict natural disasters. He and his wife investigate, discovering that they come from a convent where aliens have taken over. The aliens want him to join them, as the Earth is too diseased to exist.
The leads are wooden and only seem to want to have sex with one another, yet there are no love scenes. They're utter failures at being heroic and simply move the plot along to its conclusion, where we learn that the Earth is filled with glitter. It blows up real good!
There are some ridiculous moments, such as Lee's true form and seeing nuns operate supercomputers. Seriously, if I just read the description of this movie, it'd sound like everything I love. But seeing the execution leaves a lot to be desired.
The film opens with a shaken Lee as a Catholic priest trying to get to a phone call. All hell breaks loose and a diner is destroyed, with the owner blinded by coffee before being killed and the pay phone being blown up. Turns out that Father Pergado is due to be replaced by the alien Zindar. Good start. And it was the trailer, filled with science fiction machines and evil nuns that got me interested in this picture!
Professor Andrew Boran discovers radio signals that predict natural disasters. He and his wife investigate, discovering that they come from a convent where aliens have taken over. The aliens want him to join them, as the Earth is too diseased to exist.
The leads are wooden and only seem to want to have sex with one another, yet there are no love scenes. They're utter failures at being heroic and simply move the plot along to its conclusion, where we learn that the Earth is filled with glitter. It blows up real good!
There are some ridiculous moments, such as Lee's true form and seeing nuns operate supercomputers. Seriously, if I just read the description of this movie, it'd sound like everything I love. But seeing the execution leaves a lot to be desired.