Even if it was cheap, there were big bloopers that could have been avoided and weren't. You can do cheap an good. Or cheap and careless. How come the completely naked alien woman had a heavy noticeable make-up? And that's the beginning. Just a little brain and those stupid mistakes that required not money, just common sense- would have been adverted. How about when "every car in the town is paralyzed" and you can see far away a car racing through the street? Just to point the camera in a different angle. The robots were cool, even if almost they didn't move, and even if they were anthropologically useless in form (why such a machine had legs?). The actress was beautiful, obviously not a great performance and worst direction. The plot was bordering with a teenager script, but could have been forgiven if the long list of easily correctable mistakes were fixed.
Review of The Day the Earth Stopped
