Doomsday Machine (1972)

★★★★★ · me likey space muffins · splue · 2011-05-06

BREAKFAST MUFFINS 1 egg 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar 1 heaping teaspoon baking 1 cup sweet milk powder 1^ cups flour Butter size of a walnut Sift the dry ingredients together and add the beaten egg in milk and the melted butter; place in well greased muffin pans and bake fifteen minutes in a quick oven.

★★★★ · Note bad at all! · Albert Schlef · 2010-11-02

This movie is not bad. Quite good, actually. I was expecting it to be one of them bad sci-fi movies from the '70s, but this one is watchable!

★★★ · Don't call me comrade! · manhog · 2011-05-04

This movie has it all! Scary dialogue! One of the guys from M*A*S*H! Lots of interesting announcements over a variety of public address systems! Physical examinations! Gravity-defying sandwiches! "Home-made" water! Space misogyny! Actually, it's not that good. But! At least watch the first five minutes for the scene where the undercover super spy throws a cat over a wall. Classic cinema!

★★★ · Project Finished by Another Filmmaker · Mystic550 · 2010-11-03

You're right Skybandit, it is basically 2 movies. According to a review at IMDb the project was started in 1967 under the title "Armageddon 1975". The project was scraped, shelved and never finished. Around 1972 an amateur film maker got the film and added about the last 10 minutes.

★★ · Amazing Mess of stock shots. · drbotanus · 2012-07-03

It appears that a couple of days were shot on this film before they ran out of money. Thats an old story in Hollywood, but, luckily for us all, it was picked up by David L. Hewitt and cobbled together with real NASA footage, special effects from Hewitt's Wizard of Mars and, incredibly, tons of stock spaceship shots from Toho's Gorath! Characters are traveling in a spacecraft unaware that the Earth is facing imminent doom and then only to find that the planet they have been chosen to settle and "start over" will make human's sterile from radiation poisoning. The sets are dreadful. The lighting…

★★ · I'd like to know the behind te scenes story to this movie. · vonnoosh · 2013-09-18

CLEARLY this movie was a patch up job and it isn't a good one. The opening looks like it was made during the height of the (impossible to look good) 1970's to mid to later 1960's (I think '67) with everyone looking like they were from that period. The ending is right out of Bill Rebane's Monster A GoGo (another patchup job of a movie) with a voice over basically telling the ending. The original actors had to be long gone by the time they got around to filming an ending (1972?) so they had people in space suits with voiceover communication trying (in vain) to sound like the original cast…