Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Journey to the Center of Time (1967)

aka Time Warp

How bad is it? Poor special effects and a plot that's impossible to follow.
Should you see it? Yes, but not because it's so-bad-it's-good

What teenage boys remember of this film
This movie treads the exact same ground as "The Time Travelers" and "Time Tunnel," but does it with a smaller budget. Scientist,s including ubiquitous trash-film hero Scott Brady, have an accident with a time machine, which sends them alternately 5000 years in the future, where Lyle Waggoner and other aliens are trying to take over the world, and to prehistoric times, where stock footage dinosaurs are the peril. The film ping-pongs back and forth so much, with so much repeated footage, that all continuity is lost. As a young boy, I was most impressed with the huge-breasted actress who played an alien - this was her only film - though a second viewing 20 years later left me wanting more to see than that.

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