rodrig58 The movie begins with the "end" and ends with "the beginning". It would have been better to hold on and Mr. Corman did not start at all. When I was little I played with my fingers in the dark and in the light of a bulb I got figures of animals, snake, rabbit, etc. on the walls. I also think they have done so to get the shadow of the "monster" on the wall in this awkward movie. The most natural is the donkey, but he dies first. Only after an hour and six minutes we see the "monster", a man with a carnival mask, all ridiculous. Pathetic! If you decide to watch it, you will want it to end faster.

Rainey Dawn I am a sucker for the post-apolitical, last people of earth types of films and Day the World Ended (1955) is one of them. This one I find really good. It's suspenseful, eerie, claustrophobic, intense and just an all around good sci-fi horror film. I really enjoy this one.There are 7 people who believes they maybe the last people on earth. 2 women and 5 men are alone in the world - one of them has half mutated after the atomic explosion that left them trying to survive in the contaminated climate. What they don't know is the fact there is a complete mutant - a monster hunting them down. Will they all survive?The movie mainly focus on the 7 characters: how they are surviving, how it's effecting their physical and mental health, their relationships with one another and their unawareness of the mutant monster lurking about makes the film more intense.We don't see the mutant monster until the end of the film and that is fine by me... it's the character interactions and their survival that makes this film worth watching.I'll plug two good films in the vein of this film: 'The Last Woman on Earth' and 'The Last Man on Earth'.9/10

Scott LeBrun The low budget sci-fi / horror / drama "Day the World Ended" is pretty good as Roger Cormans' low budget genre efforts go. It's well acted overall and well photographed; do try to see this in widescreen if you can. It's largely dependent on its acting and writing to carry it through a long stretch in which there's no real scary stuff. That's saved for the end. Corman is wise to keep his monster off screen until then, and fortunately when the reveal finally happens, the work by Paul Blaisdell ensures a fairly interesting creature, certainly better looking than, say, the thing in "It Conquered the Earth".The movie features a decent ensemble cast with stolid, handsome Richard Denning ("Creature from the Black Lagoon") as the hero Rick, Mike Connors ('Mannix') as hot headed, creepy antagonist Tony, Paul Birch (Cormans' "Not of This Earth") as homeowner Jim Maddison, pretty Lori Nelson ("Revenge of the Creature") as Jims' nubile daughter Louise, sexy Adele Jergens ("Armored Car Robbery") as Tony's gal pal, Raymond Hatton ("The Hunchback of Notre Dame" '23) as aged gold hunter Pete, Paul Dubov ("Shock Corridor") as infected man Radek, and Corman regular Jonathan Haze as an unnamed victim. Blaisdell himself plays the monster.The actors play a disparate group of people who gather at Jims' home after nuclear devastation has made most other places dangerous; Jim lives in a valley that offers some protection. They find that surviving is tough, but making things worse is Tony, who gets the hots for Louise. They also become concerned about the daytime activities of Radek, who frequently disappears into a contaminated area. And eventually the monster shows up...Devotees of genre efforts from this decade and followers of Cormans' career should find this to be agreeable entertainment. Even though the scares only start coming toward the end, the filmmaker manages to keep you watching and involved. Certainly you wait hoping for the rotten Tony to get his comeuppance. There may be moments that inspire more laughter than anything, but taken as a whole the movie is fun.Seven out of 10.

bkoganbing If you were to pick folks to hopefully populate the world again as the new Adams and Eves the group from Day The World Ended would not be selected as a typical gene pool. But they are an interesting crew to entertain us for 79 minutes in a typical Roger Corman low budget film.This futuristic look after the Apocalypse was shot on a shoestring and it shows, but Corman was a master at stretching things. A valley where Paul Birch and his daughter Lori Nelson have their ranch seems to have escaped the holocaust and some folks have arrived there for shelter that include an escaped convict Michael Connors and his moll stripper Adele Jergens, geologist Richard Denning, old prospector Raymond Hatton, and a strange man who has a taste for the radiated flesh of the dead animals around played by Paul Dubov.Birch has a lot of supplies stored away probably he would be considered a survivalist today, but this is not a crew to think of the larger picture. Both Connors and Denning make a play for Nelson and Jergens is feeling rather frustrated. And there are some nasty mutant beings hanging around, but strangely not entering the valley.Day The World Ended is a bit better than some of the low budget science fiction from the Fifties. The characters if not original are indeed entertaining. Roger Corman could stretch a dollar better than most.