Well, not really bad for an evening's entertainment. If you can digest a mixture of outdated horror effects, pseudo psychological insights combined with a plot that verges on the incredible ... astonishingly enough, you'll consider this movie as fairly amusing. The fact that "The Day.."succeeds in keeping our attention focused on the developing story is obviously due to the great acting by Natassja Kinski and Randy Quaid. Miss Kinski is not only a natural talent but a very beautiful lady who seems to become more attractive as the years go by: her appearance always seems to blend perfectly with her actual age. It remains a mystery why one has not seen her more frequently in top-class productions.Randy Quaid needs no renewed appraisal: he has a remarkable presence and performs equally convincingly in both comedy and drama. It's sometimes difficult however not to picture him as cousin Eddie in "Christmas Vacation", certainly in this movie when at a certain moment he appears on the deck in front of his house with Christmas illuminations in the background. Bobby Edner gets away with a kind of "Sixth Sense" imitation and as for the monster who is very threatening and bloodthirsty at the beginning and in profile definitely resembles a Tyrannosaurus Rex, well, at the very end he obviously winks at the child but also at us, the audience, as if to convey the message: "Please do not take all of this too seriously!"
Review of The Day the World Ended
