‘You’ll be paralysed with fear…’
Target Earth is a 1954 sci-fi horror film about two strangers who must face giant robots from Venus that in deserted Chicago.
Directed by Sherman A. Rose from a screenplay by Bill Raynor, AIP’s James Nicholson and Wyott Ordung (Monster from the Ocean Floor), based on the 1953 short story “Deadly City” by Paul W. Fairman. It was Herman Cohen‘s first production.
The movie stars Richard Denning (The Creature from the Black Lagoon; The Black Scorpion), Kathleen Crowley (Curse of the Undead), Virginia Grey (Black Zoo; Unknown Island; House of Horrors), Richard Reeves and Whit Bissell (I Was a Teenage Frankenstein; Creature from the Black Lagoon).
Even though a “robot army” is mentioned several times, the production crew only constructed one robot which was used for all scenes. The film’s story is based in Chicago but was actually filmed in Los Angeles. Street scenes were filmed during early mornings when the streets were empty.
Plot:
Chicago is seemingly deserted. A small group of people who have been overlooked during a mass evacuation band together to face an invasion of robot-like beings from the planet Venus…
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Choice dialogue:
“I came to about noon, the only thing I had left was… a headache”
“In the meantime we gotta play hide and seek with a bunch of zombies from Mars, or wherever they come from?”
Budget:
$85,000 (estimated)
Technical specs:
1 hour 15 minutes
Black and white
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