World Without End

Holy crap! Didn’t Ed Wood by any chance write the script? No one can deny it its primacy as one of the first films about time travel, but if H.G. Wells saw it, he would probably break down in shock. This is one of those silly and yet so unintentionally ridiculous sci-fi movies. It mixes a space-time paradox, survival horror, the "lost civilizations" genre – so popular in the 30s and 40s – and at the end the filmmakers give us a Rambo-like action set piece with a bazooka vs. primitive one-eyed savages with flintlocks. The few effects are truly terrible (the plush giant spiders in particular stand out), the dialogue is silly, the women from the future in miniskirts are beautiful, the sets are drab. (25.12.2012)