This is not a good movie. This is awful. It is not scary. It has an awful story line. The title give away the ending so it has an awful ending. Do not see this movie. Aliens are trying to end world because they do like. Because people are always each other. Better kill all the people so they do not like them slaves. This is one of worst science fiction movies ever. Do not see it.

End of the World (1977) 1/2 (out of 4) Father Pergado (Christopher Lee) is desperately trying to do research on aliens that he believes are on Earth. Before long another couple join the search and soon it turns out that the Father will be going up against Zindar (also played by Lee).John Hayes' END OF THE WORLD has the title that would make one think that they were walking into a disaster movie but it's actually a science-fiction movie and a really awful one at that. Apparently Lee wasn't too fond of this movie either as he was apparently lied to about it. With that said, it's obvious that there wasn't any sort of budget here as the entire thing has a very cheap feel and in all honesty, the screenplay is incredibly bad and almost on the level of PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE.There are many problems with this movie but the biggest is the fact that I'm sure everyone was wanting to do a "big" movie but didn't have the money for it. The problem with the screenplay is that it has a good opening and then everything else that follows is just pure boredom. I mean, the entire investigation that eats up the majority of the running time just isn't all that interesting and I'd argue that there's not an ounce of suspense or anything else for that matter. You're basically just sitting there watching this stuff and wishing you were anywhere else.The film does have an impressive cast but I think it's fair to say that everyone was just hoping that their check wouldn't bounce. Lee is decent in the film but you really can tell that he'd rather be somewhere else. Sue Lyon and Kirk Scott play the main investigators and don't bring much energy the picture. Lew Ayres appears during one scene so it appears he was just paid for a day's work. You've also got Dean Jagger in a small role. Good, solid names but they just don't add much.END OF THE WORLD is a really awful movie but the ending is so bad you pretty much have to see it to believe it. I won't spoil it here but it's almost worth sitting through the rest of the picture for.

That Christopher Lee wanted to put Hammer Films behind him after two decades of solid service is perhaps understandable given that, as he is reported to have claimed, the quality of parts being offered to him within that stable had steadily deteriorated over the last few years. However, considering that what awaited him outside its boundaries was generally more of the same – only cheaper still and mostly downright exploitative – the choice may not have been a wise one! As it happened, the famed British company was actually on its last legs and, indeed, their last horror outing (before the recent, rather low-key revival) would prove to be the maligned TO THE DEVIL…A DAUGHTER (1976), co-starring Lee in the role of an evil priest.That alone should have spelled disaster for the movie under review as Lee was again called upon to don the habit – in the promising first scene of technological mayhem in a small-town café – not to mention play a dual role, to no evident benefit, this time as the leader of a small alien community (his cohorts, hiding with him inside the safety of a convent, under the guise of nuns!) bent on destroying Earth before its 'excesses' throw the entire Universe in chaos!! That is basically it for this truly lame sci-fi effort – seldom has the impending apocalypse been depicted so dully, uneventfully and unimaginatively! To add insult to injury, the producers managed to recruit a serviceable cast – Sue Lyon (far removed from her signature role in Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA {1962}) and old-timers Dean Jagger, Lew Ayres and Macdonald Carey – but then forgot to give them anything at all worthwhile to do. For instance, the leading lady simply tags along (throwing an occasional, and most unconvincing, hysterical fit) with hero Kirk Scott – whose help is somehow sought by the enemy in getting back home (is that not a tired concept, one which I have always found ludicrous to begin with!) – on his mission to thwart Lee's plans, but she could just as well have stayed home for all the good she does him or his cause! The script, too, does not even attempt to explain itself: coded messages from outer space precede natural disasters occurring here on Earth (are they meant as fair warning before complete annihilation, or just a gratuitous display of the latest – albeit by-now cumbersome – computer machinery?); Lee is confronted with the callous murder of seven innocent people to achieve his aims, and he can only (straight-facedly, mind you) reason thus: "We had no choice – there was a malfunction in the negative velocity!" … come again?! However, what really sinks this is the climax: the protagonists not only never bother to alert the proper authorities about the imminent threat to our planet – but they even turn traitors and, by escaping through a convenient time-warp, join their opponents' ranks (truly a case of "if you cannot beat them…")!

This movie was not as bad as many of the critics whom filled out the IMDb.com review suggest.Its main flaw is it take a long time to develop, and there are Dominique like voids of dialogue where the actors must carry the scene with body language.Christopher Lee portrays the main antagonist, a priest who was kidnapped then cloned by aliens who seek to both destroy the Earth (so its diseases cannot spread across the galaxy) and to return to their home planet, in which there is no war, disease or famine.None of the other actors did a particularly good job. Dean Jagger, whom portrays the male protagonist is okay at best, and the female lead is played by Sue Lyon. She is not the best actress of her time, and cannot carry her silent scenes very well compared to Lee or Jagger.Not that Lee or Jagger did exceptionally in this case, but it is a LOT to ask of an actor to carry a silent scene.The plot is very "Twilight Zone", the special effects and sound effects seem to come straight out of the old television Star Trek series.A scene where Jagger removes a contraption the aliens need to return home, in fact, looks almost 100% like the scene that Star Trek 2 the Wrath of Khan would sue when Spock is attempting to fix the ship's warp drive. Eerily similar.Some shots are very Kubrickian featuring drawn back and isolated shots.The story is fair to good, if not very slow to develop.This film lacked about 2 to 3 'steps' to make it a success, but its not a bad way to spend a couple hours.