What's this about?

Lately, it seems like many of the movies/shows are just a rehash or reboot of things that have already been done. And so I started to dive into the past. It's been fun, but I find myself losing track of which ones I’ve seen and whether or not I enjoyed them. Sometimes the titles themselves just don't tell me enough to remember.

I wouldn’t have voluntarily watched a lot of these movies when I was younger. It’s strange how interests change. That goes for what I read, too. I have another blog that explores books. I’m mostly reading older fiction and memoirs, and some of the books have led me to movies/shows and vice versa. In those cases, I may post the book review over here as well.

There will be spoilers, which is different than my book reviews. That’s mostly because I want to have enough information to help me remember what I’ve seen. I’m getting older. The brain doesn’t cooperate like it used to. What can I say? The gray hairs are catching up with me!

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

The Earth Dies Screaming - 1964

This was another movie that ended up on my list, because it was Armageddon-looking fun.

Jeff drives into a quaint English town and finds dead bodies everywhere. Eventually, he comes across a few other survivors, and they figure out that aliens have attacked Earth with gas, and only those that were protected from the gas have survived. The aliens have slow-moving robots lurking around, so they have to be careful! Will they be able to save humanity?!

To be honest, I'm not really sure. This movie had some of the weirdest stuff in it. I don't understand why anyone would purposely walk up to one of the robots and then stand there and let it zap you. And for some reason, that enabled the aliens to reanimate the dead and use them as slaves. What?

Eventually, Jeff and the crew are able to defeat the slow robots (that should never be a threat) by downing a tower that's been transmitting orders. The thing is, what about the aliens themselves? Shouldn't they be doing something? Or they just wanted to destroy humanity with a gas and then throw out some robots for fun? What's the point? Anyway, at the end, Jeff loads up the small group of survivors onto a passenger jet and hopes others will see it and head south. Or something.

Wow, this one was bad. I thought the premise was really cool when it first started. Everyone is dead from an unknown threat. What a cool idea! And then it got real weird. FYI, no one should die from those robots. No one. I can't say this was entertaining, because it was so stupid. The threat was so nonexistent, since the aliens were not really there. It was just the stupid robots. Just another hour of my life I'm never getting back.

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