The Day Time Ended is a late 70's sci-fi b-movie that tells the story of a family who find themselves dealing withseveral close encounters and who are (Complete with their house) ripped through space and time repeatedly.Consisting of the usual quality cgi and some stop motion creatures the idea behind the movie is sound but the execution is pretty disastrous.The plot is a mess and is more than slightly difficult to follow, for this reason caring about characters felt like a chore and the whole movie missed its mark badly.I see what they were going for I truly do, but somewhere along the way somebody suffered with writers block and out popped this half baked effort.The Good:A couple of interesting ideasThe Bad:Plot makes very little senseNothing flowsThings I Learnt From This Movie:Aliens can vaporize metal in a second but take several minutes to get through a wooden door

(15%) A low budget Charles Band production that plays a bit like ET, only 100% worse. The script is awful, the acting wouldn't be out of place in a early afternoon soap opera, and the effects are as shoddily put together as a giveaway toy. But then again it isn't all bad. You can for instance make it until the end without wanting to die, and the movie's shortfalls can be mocked which is a lot more entertaining than the movie itself. The plot doesn't really make a whole lot of sense, and when a eight inch brown alien starts prancing around a little girls bedroom it becomes clear that this really, really, really isn't going to get much better any time soon. This ins't worth a look, but to claim it as the worst ever is a touch too harsh.

According to the opening credits for "The Day Time Ended", four writers are credited with developing the story and writing the screenplay. And none of them apparently were able to make the movie's story make much sense. I'm not sure even if you can call what's in the movie a story - much of the movie seems to be just a series of random supernatural events, and even the resolution at the end doesn't answer what the intents of the creators of the events are. Though the problems of the movie go beyond the bad script. Director John 'Bud' Cardos makes much of this theatrical movie have the feel of a made-for-TV movie of this period. Is there anything positive to say about this movie? Well, some of the special effects aren't bad for a movie that had a pittance of a budget. But I'd rather have a good script with bad special effects than a movie with good special effects and a bad script.

While watching John 'Bud' Cardos's The Day Time Ended (1979), I couldn't help but think of Tobe Hooper's (i.e. Steven Spielberg's) Poltergeist (1982): replace aliens with ghosts and you have eerily similar movies. A series of inexplicable, supernatural events; a family moving into a recently built house in the desert; the young daughter disappearing into a vortex only to be followed by her desperate mother: it's all there (my somewhat crack-pot theory posits that Poltergeist was payback from Spielberg, whose 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' was clearly ripped-off by Cardos for The Day Time Ended).Of course, Cardos's movie is—to put it mildly—nowhere near as good as either Close Encounters or Poltergeist: the random script feels as though it was written on the fly, the special effects are ambitious (given the budget) but still shonky, and the acting is mediocre at best (watch the reaction shot of Dorothy Malone when she answers a knock at the door from a surprisingly polite, poorly animated, stop-motion monster—it's hilarious!). After much preposterousness featuring dazzling lights in the sky, battling beasts, and malevolent machines, none of which makes any sense, the film conveniently reunites the entire family with no explanation whatsoever and leaves them heading for a futuristic alien city (where, for all they know, the inhabitants are hideous monstrosities with a taste for human flesh!).