Terror from the Year 5000 (1958)

User Rating:

1.9/10   

Director:

Robert J. Gurney Jr.

Writers:

Robert J. Gurney Jr. (writer)
Henry Slesar (story)

Release Date:

January 1958 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Tagline:

From Time Unborn ... A Hideous She-Thing!

Plot:

Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past...

Plot Keywords:

Time Machine | Statuette | MST3K | 5000s | Time Travel

Cast

Ward Costello	...	Dr. Robert Hedges
Joyce Holden	...	Claire Erling
Frederic Downs	...	Prof. Howard Erling
John Stratton	...	Victor
Salome Jens	...	The Visitor / nurse
Fred Herrick	...	Angelo
Beatrice Furdeaux	...	Miss Blake
Jack Diamond	...	Radiologist
Fred Taylor	...	Lab technician
Bill Downs	...	Joe the bartender
William Cost	...	Dr. Blair

Also Known As:

Cage of Doom
Terror from 5,000 A.D.
The Girl from 5,000 A.D.

Runtime:

66 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Dade County, Florida, USA

Company:

La Jolla Productions

Trivia:

Nationally released as the second part of a double bill with The Screaming Skull (1958).

Goofs:

Factual errors: Although the narrator claims the first satellite launched by "man" was in 1958, it was actually the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 that was first on October 4, 1957. Interestingly, the first *American* satellite, Explorer I, was indeed launched on January 31, 1958 (February 1 in GMT).

Quotes:

Narrator: In the year nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, Man launched the first satellite and pierced the space barrier.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Terror from the Year 5000 (#9.7)" (1997)

Good movie, bad DVD presentation

RE: The DVD edition of 1958's "Terror From the Year 5000" recently issued by Incredibly Strange Film Works (ISFW) of Jamestown, MO: Those of you who've been waiting for a pristine-quality DVD edition of this fun Sci-Fi oldie will have to go on waiting. The very fuzzy picture and sound quality (with contrasts so bad that some night scenes are nearly impossible to make out) make this ISFW DVD a big disappointment, especially considering the $24.99 price tag! (The Horror/Sci-Fi fans among you may also remember ISFW's equally unsatisfactory VHS video edition of 1964's "Horror of Party Beach", mastered from a toned-down TV print with all the gore removed!)

I'd say that any DVD or VHS video bearing the ISFW logo should be approached with caution.