Tuesday, July 24, 2012

The Time Travelers (1964)

American International Pictures
Directed by Ib Melchior
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
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A group of scientists working on a "time machine" open a window, literally, to the future, which they step through only to have it close behind them. They find a post nuke civilization populated by mutants living above ground in a scorched desert environment while a handful of others live below ground. They are desperately building a spaceship to take them to a new planet. The new arrivals are welcomed, but it is too late to bring them along to the new home. So, they rebuild their time machine, which takes them back to the present, but the timing is slightly off. They end up in a time loop, and we watch the whole movie over and over and over again.... Some interesting concepts, but the mutants and androids are campy, and so are the after-hour antics of the girls in the future, making it difficult to accept as legitimate science fiction.

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