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Terror from the Year 5000
“From Time Unborn… A Hideous She-Thing!”
3.8 / 10• 1958• 1h 10m•NR• English
Science FictionHorror
Storyline
Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be "traded" for analogous future objects by intelligent life. And on the sly, Victor's been trying to get a living visitor. Does the future need help, or is the present in danger?
Cast & Crew
Ward Costello
Dr. Robert Hedges
Lead
Joyce Holden
Claire Erling
Frederic Downs
Prof. Howard Erling
JS
John Stratton
Victor
Salome Jens
Future Woman / Nurse
FH
Fred Herrick
Angelo
BF
Beatrice Furdeaux
Miss Blake
What People Are Saying
2.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Robert J. Gurney Jr.'s vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Terror from the Year 5000 is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
