‘Attacked …by a creature from Hell!’
Day the World Ended is a 1955 sci-fi horror film produced and directed by Roger Corman. Rick (Richard Denning) is a heroic scientist who, among others, must face off against a mutant monster (Paul Blaisdell) after an atomic war destroys human civilisation.
The film was remade in 1967 as In the Year 2889 by Larry Buchanan with the dialogue repeated almost entirely verbatim. The film is referred to in a 2001 horror film of almost the same title, The Day the World Ended.
Plot:
Following an all-out atomic war, which has destroyed most (if not all) human civilisation, the Earth is left contaminated with radioactive fallout. The apparent single exception is a box canyon, surrounded by lead-bearing cliffs, in which former Navy Commander Jim Maddison lives with his daughter, Louise, in a home stocked with supplies against just such a holocaust.
Into this natural bomb shelter come stumbling several survivors, who just by chance were inside the canyon when the war occurred. After initially refusing to admit the others, Jim relents when his daughter pleads with him and appeals to his humanity.
Among the survivors are a geologist, Rick (Richard Denning), who just by coincidence happens to specialize in uranium mining, and a small-time hood, Tony (Mike Connors), with his “moll” Ruby, on their way to San Francisco…
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