Night of the Big Heat (Island of the Burning Damned) (1967)
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The famed British horror trio of Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and director Terence Fisher brought John Lymington's sci-fi novel Night of the Big Heat to the screen in this slow-moving shocker. The plot concerns a small British island where alien protoplasm creatures are attempting to raise… More The famed British horror trio of Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and director Terence Fisher brought John Lymington's sci-fi novel Night of the Big Heat to the screen in this slow-moving shocker. The plot concerns a small British island where alien protoplasm creatures are attempting to raise the temperatures to match those of their home planet. The result is a winter heat-wave so intense that most of the island's residents go up in flames. Lee and Cushing are among the few survivors able to battle the malignant extraterrestrial scourge. Fisher proves once again that his deliberately paced directorial style is better suited to Gothic horror than to what should be fast-moving sci-fi. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
- Directed By
- Terence Fisher
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- May 1, 1967 Wide
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
This film should be liked most by fans of either Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing...
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Cast
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Patrick Allen
as Jeff Callum
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Sydney Bromley
as Old Tramp
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Kenneth Cope
as Tinker Mason
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Peter Cushing
as Dr. Vernon Stone
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Thomas Heathcote
as Bob Hayward
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Percy Herbert
as Gerald Foster
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Sarah Lawson
as Frankie Callum
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Christopher Lee
as Godfrey Hanson
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William Lucas
as Ken Stanley
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Jane Merrow
as Angela Roberts
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Jack Bligh
as Ben Siddle
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Anna Turner
as Stella Haywood
