Terror from the Year 5000

Terror from the Year 5000

From Time Unborn… A Hideous She-Thing!

1958 · 70 min · ★ 3.8 · Science Fiction, Horror

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?

Directed by Robert J. Gurney Jr. · Written by Robert J. Gurney Jr.

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Ward Costello Dr. Robert Hedges
Joyce Holden Claire Erling
Frederic Downs Prof. Howard Erling
John Stratton Victor
Salome Jens Future Woman / Nurse
Fred Herrick Angelo
Beatrice Furdeaux Miss Blake

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