gamera99
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Post by gamera99 on Aug 23, 2017 19:47:27 GMT -5
Here is the non-MST3K version of Terror from the Year 5000 - now briefly on YouTube - these tend to not last long.
In case someone else would like to see it.
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Post by CrowTrobotfan92 on Aug 23, 2017 22:02:35 GMT -5
I actually checked it out as soon as I saw it was up.
Movie was eh. Too bad it never even got a VHS release though.
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Post by zombiewhacker on Aug 24, 2017 1:12:21 GMT -5
BTW, the actress who played the mutant, Salome Jens, would decades later play the female changeling/Dominion leader on Star Trek: Deep Space 9.
Which makes her, I guess, a terror from the year 2400, as well.
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Post by gorncaptain on Aug 24, 2017 1:56:42 GMT -5
I did a double take when I recognized her name from DS9. I did kind of like the premise of this one. The face stealing business is pretty unsettling. A remake with a better script and an actual budget might actually work.
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Post by zombiewhacker on Aug 24, 2017 16:30:08 GMT -5
Not being glib here, but more face stealing might have helped!
That was easily the creepiest moment in the movie (and totally freaked me out as a kid), but it happened way late in the story, as if the makers knew they had only one good idea so they saved it for the end of the film.
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Post by continosbuckle on Aug 27, 2017 0:17:38 GMT -5
I always felt that the music in this film was fairly well done and contributed mightily to the stories I've heard about people being creeped out and scared when they watched this movie as children years ago. It did a great job of setting the portentous and foreboding tone.
Two bits of trivia I'd heard about Terror From the Year 5000:
1. It was the first film in history to show a time machine. Time travel had been shown in earlier films, but this was the first one to have a machine that did it.
2. The young guy who played the scientist earlier in the film, the "Now THERE'S an interesting sample!" guy, was in a couple films in bit parts and was building something of a career. He apparently dated a young woman that Howard Hughes had a thing for and was told to leave her alone. He did not. He shortly thereafter turned up dead in a ditch on the side of a road outside Los Angeles.
Probably makes the film even more uncomfortable.
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