Terror from the Year 5000

1958 · 70 min · EN · 3.8 (27 votes)

Dir. Robert J. Gurney Jr. · Starring Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, Frederic Downs, John Stratton, Salome Jens, Fred Herrick · Music Richard DuPage

“From Time Unborn… A Hideous She-Thing!”

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Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be "traded" for analogous future objects by intelligent life. And on the sly, Victor's been trying to get a living visitor. Does the future need help, or is the present in danger?

VIBE

A delightfully oddball B-movie where scientific ambition clashes with primal desires. Expect quirky experiments, swampy isolation, and a touch of radioactive weirdness that feels both charmingly dated and genuinely unsettling.

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