A once in a lifetime cast mostly just stand about talking in this drab, garrulous cross between 'The Thing' and 'The Day of the Triffids' more redolent of the fifties than the sixties (including the large number of actors in Washington offices dressed as naval top brass looking concerned).
Not as awful as the title would promise (the original novel by Murray Leinster was called 'The Monster at World's End') and therefore not as much fun. Photographed in colour by master cameraman Stanley Cortez, it occasionally looks good but - saddled with far too much talk and a noisy score trying to make what's happening seem more dramatic than it ever is - rarely sounds it.
Not as awful as the title would promise (the original novel by Murray Leinster was called 'The Monster at World's End') and therefore not as much fun. Photographed in colour by master cameraman Stanley Cortez, it occasionally looks good but - saddled with far too much talk and a noisy score trying to make what's happening seem more dramatic than it ever is - rarely sounds it.