Day the World Ended (Roger Corman 1955)
Posted on November 26 at 17.42, 2006 by Eric Mahleb
Roger Corman is one of Hollywood’s most amazing personalities and a producer’s favourite case study.
Throughout the 60’s and 70’s, he was churning out films by the dozens, drawing on an ability to discern and understand public taste, trends and fears. His films cost very little to make but generated fairly high returns. He can easily be considered the father of the B movie and continues to influence a large group of filmmakers, producers, and studio execs. He also happens to have given Coppola, Scorcese, Bogdanovich and many others, at the dawn of their careers, a chance to practice, experiment and direct by using his cameras or left-over film stock from his productions.
The Day the World Ended is one of his better films, meaning that it must have taken him 2 weeks to shoot instead of 2 days. The film depicts a post nuclear world where, in addition to struggling to find non-contaminated goods and resources, survivors must also deal with some annoying and incredibly cheap looking mutated animals…
This is all terribly and poorly done and it is hard to think of Corman in a good light when watching this pile of nonsense….
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One Response to “Day the World Ended”
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Jon Ramster Says:
January 2, 2007 at 0.34Funny review: I realise how important Corman is, but I’ve only ever seen one film directed by him that was better than terrible.