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.

As a 10 year old, I saw this with my friends as a Saturday matinée at the local theater and it nailed my sci-fi preferences right on the head. We played this one out in the neighborhood in numerous scenarios having a deliciously creepy time dealing with "the guys with the globby eyes", whom we found preferable to the robots as scare factors. I ran across a pirate-copy DVD on-line a couple of years back and couldn't resist. Not surprisingly, the DVD quality stank, but the movie held up remarkably well. It would certainly earn no awards for excellence in any category, but carried a remarkably good atmosphere, particularly the scenes at the village inn. If I could find a better copy, I would most definitely make the investment.

Terence Fisher, veteran Hammer Film Studios director, directed this strange science fiction tale that sees a returning astronaut shocked to discover the Earth seemingly deserted, and being invaded by clunky-looking robots! He does encounter some survivors, who tell him what they know about the invasion, and so plan a counter-attack to defeat these robots. Even at just over an hour, this is a remarkably slow, tedious film, with cardboard characters and a clichéd, ineffectual storyline. Title is laughable considering what goes on in the film! Was produced by the same British company(Lippert) that had made the equally poor "Curse Of The Fly". Forget it.

Solid movie of its type, a 1960s British-made, low-budget, sci-fi drama that plays like a stage production and stars a veteran American actor to appeal to the U.S. market. In this case, the lead is Willard Parker of "Texas Rangers" TV fame, and Thorley "Doctor Watson" Walters is one of his costars. Parker plays a test pilot who returns to earth one day to find almost everyone dead. He stumbles upon a few other survivors, who were all shielded in various ways at the moment of doom. The handful of survivors holes up in a hotel in a small town and fight an army of alien robots that have come to conquer our planet. Most of the film is interaction among the survivors. There are no special effects and little action. And yet, in the hands of masterful director Terrence Fisher, the film is atmospheric and reasonably suspenseful. The robots are just plain silly, but everything else works. Reminiscent of "Village of the Damned," and in fact apparently used footage from that long-ago classic. See it.