The Day Time Ended (1979)

Aliens visit the solar-powered house of a middle-class family, and the house is suddenly sucked into a time warp that transports it back to prehistoric times.

Director:

John 'Bud' Cardos

Writers:

Wayne Schmidt (screenplay), J. Larry Carroll (screenplay by)

Stars:

Jim Davis, Christopher Mitchum, Dorothy Malone

1 nomination.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Jim Davis	...	Grant
Christopher Mitchum	...	Richard (as Chris Mitchum)
Dorothy Malone	...	Ana
Marcy Lafferty	...	Beth
Natasha Ryan	...	Jenny
Scott C. Kolden	...	Steve (as Scott Kolden)
Roberto Contreras	...	Gas station attendant (as Roberto Contréras)

Storyline

Aliens visit the solar-powered house of a middle-class family, and the house is suddenly sucked into a time warp that takes it back to prehistoric times.

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Plot Keywords:

black and white oxford saddle shoes | girl in kneesocks and saddle shoes | girl in very short dress or skirt | girl in a notably short outfit | time warp | 

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Taglines:

THEIR LIVES BECAME A LIVING HELL

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Genres:

Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

PG

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1980 (UK)

Also Known As:

Earth's Final Fury

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Charles Band Productions, Vortex Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

79 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Metrocolor) (uncredited)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Closing credits: The events, characters and firms depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual firms is purely coincidental.

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Goofs

When the "Vacuum Cleaner of Doom" flies through the living room window, the curtains are partially open. Later, when Steve goes downstairs to get Jenny's doll, the curtains are closed (no one in the family could have closed them, since they've all been hiding in the upstairs bedroom).

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Quotes

[first lines]
Grant Williams: [narrating] Hello? Hello? Can you hear me? Can anyone hear me? I don't know where I am. I don't know where I am in time. I don't know what century I'm in. There's a message that must get through if anyone can hear me. When I was out among you, I always believed, as you do, that time exists in a sequential pattern - one day following another; one year after another; each century following the previous one... but it's not like that at all. I can tell you that now, because I know, ...

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Connections

Referenced in Best of the Worst: The Vindicator, Cyber Tracker, Robot Jox, and R.O.T.O.R. (2013)

User Reviews

Well, There Goes Another Hour and a Half of My LIfe

As others have said, this is a film without a plot. It's one of those things where you put a family in a house in a remote place and start doing things to them. There are all sorts of things but nothing is ever explained. There is a big fight between two claymation monsters, but what do they have to do with the swirling lights that keep showing up, or the gunlike thing that points at people. We meet a couple of little creatures at the beginning but then we never see them again. And what does a triple-nova have to do with anything? The closing statement by grandpa is made without any knowledge of anything. And where are they going? And why them? And where is everyone else? I know it has something today with a time vortex, but the principle characters just bumble around. They don't really learn anything. Or do they? They don't bother to tell us.