I think viewing this film as a 60s piece and a Saturday night creepy film genre, it's impact for me was pretty strong. Pluses for me:
Theme song. Soo bad it's good I thought. I hope the film's shown enough that some garage band picks up on the song and re-records it. How did it go? Slash, slash, crash, crash, kill, kill. Very beat.
Motorcycle gang. I loved seeing a group of Brit bikes tooling around and there was a unique Triumph model amongst.
Viveca Lindfors. Hot. I thought her character and the relationship with the head scientist was complicated and interesting to think about. Plus, her studio with her nuclear aftermath looking figures was a nice cinematic touch, imo.
The experiment with the children. Grim, and given this was the era of the Cuban missile crisis, a too close to reality premise.
The ending. I can't believe more people didn't comment or said that the couple escapes?!? The fact that ALL the people who try to help the children, good or bad characters, die, I thought was a very dramatic touch and not very early 60s thing to do. Grim but the right way to end the film.
The biker story could have been better integrated, and could have been a part of the film all the way through, but I think the pluses of this film for me outweigh its weaknesses.
Theme song. Soo bad it's good I thought. I hope the film's shown enough that some garage band picks up on the song and re-records it. How did it go? Slash, slash, crash, crash, kill, kill. Very beat.
Motorcycle gang. I loved seeing a group of Brit bikes tooling around and there was a unique Triumph model amongst.
Viveca Lindfors. Hot. I thought her character and the relationship with the head scientist was complicated and interesting to think about. Plus, her studio with her nuclear aftermath looking figures was a nice cinematic touch, imo.
The experiment with the children. Grim, and given this was the era of the Cuban missile crisis, a too close to reality premise.
The ending. I can't believe more people didn't comment or said that the couple escapes?!? The fact that ALL the people who try to help the children, good or bad characters, die, I thought was a very dramatic touch and not very early 60s thing to do. Grim but the right way to end the film.
The biker story could have been better integrated, and could have been a part of the film all the way through, but I think the pluses of this film for me outweigh its weaknesses.