This is a prime example of how to draw an audience in to a cinematic story . People all across the English countryside suddenly fall dead . Cut to opening credits with a creepy film score then cut to a perplexed survivor driving and stopping at a village strewn with corpses . Something dreadful has happened and the audience know they're going to be watching a spine chilling classic of British cinema
For reasons unexplained the producers then decide to ruin the film by .... well not explaining anything . As the story continues we're introduced to one note human characters and eventually robotic villains . Who are these robots ? Obviously they were created by a higher alien intelligence . The aliens it seems can then bring the dead back to life in traditional zombie fashion though this is never explained how or why . Nor is it explained the motives of this invasion . In fact the audience spend so much time asking themselves questions any enjoyment of the film becomes totally negated
It's obvious that this movie is movie is produced as a simple B movie to be shown as a precursor to a main feature hence the very short running time . It certainly doesn't suffer from a disjointed feel meaning that the lack of explanation and the all too easy method to defeat the robots comes from script level . This is a pity because if the screenplay especially the exposition and characterization had been developed more then it could have been a classic highly regarded Brit sci-fi movie
For reasons unexplained the producers then decide to ruin the film by .... well not explaining anything . As the story continues we're introduced to one note human characters and eventually robotic villains . Who are these robots ? Obviously they were created by a higher alien intelligence . The aliens it seems can then bring the dead back to life in traditional zombie fashion though this is never explained how or why . Nor is it explained the motives of this invasion . In fact the audience spend so much time asking themselves questions any enjoyment of the film becomes totally negated
It's obvious that this movie is movie is produced as a simple B movie to be shown as a precursor to a main feature hence the very short running time . It certainly doesn't suffer from a disjointed feel meaning that the lack of explanation and the all too easy method to defeat the robots comes from script level . This is a pity because if the screenplay especially the exposition and characterization had been developed more then it could have been a classic highly regarded Brit sci-fi movie