LouHomey From my favorite movies..

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Hitchcoc The Earth has a fertility problem. Due to some sort of plague, most of the inhabitants are about to die off. Apparently among all those slinky young women in their short skirts, there is only one who needs to mate and continue the race. Most of the people in the future are deaf mutes but they are able to use telepathy. There are a group of scientists who are trying to figure out how to return to an earlier time and stop the plague. Robert Clarke is an astronaut who has somehow gone through a time warp and finds himself in the enviable position of stud muffin. The rest are slowly mutating into bald people who are very dangerous. Also, poor Robert wants to return and change things in the past, but there are leaders who see him as the only hope here and now. Anyway, the whole thing is dull and silly. The ending does have a bit of creativity.

unbrokenmetal I didn't expect much, but it's actually pretty good. 'Beyond the Time Barrier' tells us about a test pilot in 1960 who takes a rocket plane into space for a short flight - but when he returns to the airbase, it's deserted. A futuristic city is nearby, and he finds he is in the year 2024. He learns about the people of the future, what problems they have, and what caused the destruction of the old world as he knew it. He would like to return to his own time and prevent the catastrophe, but this is a difficult task...It's a movie made in 1960 and looks like it with dated design and effects. The story has a few weak points, especially time travel with a plane, simply flying a bit faster, is unconvincing. But there are a couple of good ideas (e.g. predicting the damage to the ozone layer instead of the usual nuclear war topic) and it's well directed, without any tedious or silly scenes to stretch the running time. Good sci-fi entertainment for its age.

Wizard-8 I wasn't expecting too much when I popped the DVD of "Beyond The Time Barrier" into my DVD player - I thought I would be getting standard 1950s low budget sci-fi. But I was somewhat surprised. While I would not call this a GREAT movie, it is not without merit. For starters, it runs at an acceptable length, without one scene that is pointless. (Though the movie could have spent more time at the start developing the character of the hero - we learn next to nothing about him before his travelling in time.) While the movie is low budget, the limited funds are generally spent well, with some eye-catching sets and some well-chosen locations. The script has some interesting ideas here and there, and it interestingly ends the movie on a note that's not completely happy - quite unlike most other sci-fi films of this period. Fans of 1950s low budget sci fi films will probably enjoy this the most. Others will probably find it a fairly painless way to pass 75 minutes.

bkoganbing It's always interesting to watch futuristic films made in the past and see how they turn out. The plague of cosmic rays foretold in Beyond The Time Barrier has not occurred and it's already 2011 and it started in 1971 according to the film and Robert Clarke returns in 2024. Still though the cause of the plague is destruction of the atmospheric barrier which is the ozone layer though not called that in the film and in that sense the film is curiously relevant though they got the immediate cause wrong.Robert Clarke plays a Chuck Yeager like test pilot who breaks the time barrier and arrives in a world where some folks are living in a hermetically sealed dome near what used to be White Sands Air Force base. The rest are mutants who are sterile, mute or both. The head of the group inside the dome, Vladimir Sokoloff decides to use Clarke with his healthy sperm as the savior of civilization if he'll only mate with his daughter Darlene Tompkins.The film spared every expense in the making it looks like it was shot with an old Bell&Howell home movie camera. Still it's an interesting bit of work and you can't expect all that much from American-International Pictures unless Roger Corman is involved somewhat and even that's a dubious proposition.