Terror from the Year 5000

Terror from the Year 5000 (1958)

From Time Unborn… A Hideous She-Thing!

Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be "traded" for analogous future objects by intelligent life. And on the sly, Victor's been trying to get a living visitor. Does the future need help, or is the present in danger?

Date of release
1958-10-30
TMDB
3.8 / 10 (27)
Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
Science Fiction, Horror
Director
Robert J. Gurney Jr.

Casting

Interesting facts

Terror from the Year 5000 is a 1958 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film, produced by Robert J. Gurney Jr, Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson, and Gene Searchinger. Directed by Robert J. Gurney Jr, it stars Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, John Stratton, Salome Jens, and Fred Herrick. The screenplay is based (uncredited) on the short story "Bottle Baby" by print/TV/film writer Henry Slesar that was published in the science fiction magazine Fantastic. American International Pictures released the film in August 1958 in a double feature with The Screaming Skull.

Production

Some facts on the production of Terror from the Year 5000 include:

Outdoor shots were filmed in and around Dade County, Florida.

The working title of the film was The Girl from 5000 A.D.

This is the first feature film credit for theater/film/TV actress Salome Jens.

The film is one of the earliest editing credits for Dede Allen, who went on to a career editing such feature films as The Hustler, Bonnie and Clyde, Dog Day Afternoon, and Reds.

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