Tuesday, May 11, 2021

The Day Time Ended (1979)

The makers of this film obviously had budget for special effects and were going to use as many as possible, no matter if it made sense to the plot (such that there is). The result is a bit of a mess though not without charm. 

A nice middle class family arrive home at their funky modern house in the desert, all solar panels and modern art (and to be fair it looks amazing). However, weird things start happening. Strange lights at night appear at night, these third encounters involve stop motion monsters and time warps.

Grant (Jim Davis) waves a pistol around rather ineffectually as one of the aliens, the family encounters, looks like a flying teasmade and stops bullets in mid air and vaporise them. However, the teasmade is stopped by a wooden interior door. Little Jenny (Natasha Ryan) isn't afraid of the aliens and leads the family into a time warp into the future...

The film doesn't make much sense, after a night of having their lives turned upside down and being menaced by monsters, they all seem cool about being seemingly marooned in the far future in a strange land. In fact apart from a mild case of awe and minor terror they don't seem that freaked out about anything. The alien antics, which randomly switch from monster attacks to time warps and UFO light shows, are also hard to explain. The film is nonsense with little plot but entertaining fun all the same.