BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Ginger 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.

Steven Handler Warning, this review contains spoilers.This British made Sci-Fi movie boasts a snappy title, which may be the best part of this film. Aliens attack earth. A small group of survivors hold up in an English village. Their de-facto leader, a test pilot, is played by Willard Parker. Alien invaders wearing what looks like a retro biohazard suit roam the streets. Although unstoppable by pistol and rifle fire, the aliens are not invincible and are shattered to pieces by blunt force trauma from automobiles. I found the acting, stiff, and the film's pace too slow. The dialog was predicable. The mix of survivor characters includes the hero test pilot, a pregnant woman, and a male survivor who drinks too much. Tossed in for good measure the earthlings killed by the aliens, later come to life, controlled by the aliens to do their bidding. So there you have it, a predictable plot, stiff acting, stilted dialog, all packed into a film that is about an hour long. I probably won't be seeing this one again. In fact, I'd like to see the title changed from "The Earth Dies Screaming" to "The Viewers Die of Disinterest".

henri sauvage Okay variation on the "What Happened to Everybody?" sf genre. Though it loses steam about two-thirds of the way through, it starts off well enough, creating a fairly eerie and desolate atmosphere as a small group of survivors copes with the usual issues, after a mysterious event has killed off most of the human race.The actors are competent enough, although Dennis Price is sadly wasted in his role as "Taggart", the obligatory rotter. (Am I the only one who thinks of Slim Pickens and "Blazing Saddles" whenever I hear that surname?) As always, the aliens -- actually, they're robots who for some inexplicable reason wear spacesuits, complete with backpacks and helmets -- have an easily exploitable Achilles heel. Their ability to revive the dead as mindless zombies is rather creepy, though how the zombies are supposed to see where they're going when their eyes have supposedly "turned to gray goo" is a bit hard to fathom. (Those contacts look really uncomfortable.) Worth a look, though it's not up to Terence Fisher's usual standard.

Hitchcoc This plot was done numerous times, where a group of every day people find themselves the last survivors of some sort of invasion. In this case, they were hidden away somewhere through some circumstance (one is a test pilot). Anyway, they find each other among a mass of bodies on the streets of a little town in England. They begin trying to figure out what to do, but have some trouble listening to one another. It turns out there are space men out there in typical garb for their stereotypical sixties roots. They have the ability to touch people and kill them (later they turn into zombies). One of them is more enterprising than the others and the way this finally concludes is a bit much. But it keeps one's attention for a B scifi movie.

Theo Robertson This is a prime example of how to draw an audience in to a cinematic story . People all across the English countryside suddenly fall dead . Cut to opening credits with a creepy film score then cut to a perplexed survivor driving and stopping at a village strewn with corpses . Something dreadful has happened and the audience know they're going to be watching a spine chilling classic of British cinema For reasons unexplained the producers then decide to ruin the film by .... well not explaining anything . As the story continues we're introduced to one note human characters and eventually robotic villains . Who are these robots ? Obviously they were created by a higher alien intelligence . The aliens it seems can then bring the dead back to life in traditional zombie fashion though this is never explained how or why . Nor is it explained the motives of this invasion . In fact the audience spend so much time asking themselves questions any enjoyment of the film becomes totally negated It's obvious that this movie is movie is produced as a simple B movie to be shown as a precursor to a main feature hence the very short running time . It certainly doesn't suffer from a disjointed feel meaning that the lack of explanation and the all too easy method to defeat the robots comes from script level . This is a pity because if the screenplay especially the exposition and characterization had been developed more then it could have been a classic highly regarded Brit sci-fi movie