At the Earth's Core

Peter Cushing's enjoyably wacky performance and Caroline Munro's ample assets elevate this otherwise ho-hum sci-fi cheesefest.

It's tragic that only a year after this classic was made, Peter Cushing had been reduced to such amateur fare as Star Wars.

Science be damned, and all the better for it. When they first walk into The Earth's Core, all bets are off. The creatures are terrible but fun, the acting is awful but amusing, Caroline Munro is hot but smoking hot and the telepathic pterodactyls are telepathic pterodactyls. Telepathic pterodactyls. What are you waiting for?

Two British dudes journey to the center of the Earth, where they find a race of humans being enslaved by giant telepathic bird creatures and their troglodyte underlings. It's deliciously weird but the execution falls well short of the potential of the cool premise. The action is lackluster, the effects are really corny, and the hero is a bit of a lummox. At least Caroline Munro is hot in a small role, and Peter Cushing is actually pretty darn funny.

There is some charm to the lovely retro production design and strange goings on, but in action it's tedious and uninspiring. Cushing at least acts admirably silly.

Hello. I'm Doug McClure. You might remember me from such films as, "The Man Who Understood Women" and "Because They're Young". Although my latest film, "At the Earth's Core", is a rollicking, sleeveless, sexy good time, remember kids: the Hollow Earth Theory is no laughing matter. I'm legally obligated by the terms of my parole to remind all you young whippersnappers out there: there's nothing to look into here. You live at the zenith of civilization. Enjoy the show.

Bad but in a pretty painless way. A fun watch when it is not focused on slowly advancing the dumb plot. More important than plot is fighting those evil bird things.

Terrible in every way. Not helped by a weak MST3K episode. I hoped Peter Cushing would be fun but he just played an annoying caricature. MST3K: 50

Weird as hell. The soundtrack is spooky and sounds like a very extended psychedelic rock intro..but it really sells the film. Mcclure may not be the hero we want...but he's the hero we get anyway. Cushing is hilarious and way over the top. I didn't mind the dated effects and as i let myself get into the mindaltering soundtrack i actually found some of the psychic pterodactyl bits effective and tense(which has just convinced most anyone reading this to disregard all i say but whatever)

Peter Cushing is trying his best to save this one, but the animatronic dinosaur birds move at a rate of no miles per hour, the barbarian is using a mace made out of foam, and the hero is a sleeveless disco Bilbo Baggins. Amusing enough to riff and enjoy, though.

A doctor who film in all but name.

Der Doktor hat schon ein paar lockere Sprüche drauf. In der Hohlwelt angekommen: "Das kann unmöglich Rhondda Valley sein." Beim Ausrüsten der Eingeborenen mit Pfeil und Bogen: "Robin Hood und seine Spießgesellen sind gar nichts dagegen, was, David?" David beim Zweikampf anfeuern: "Vergiss deine vornehme Erziehung!" Zum Monstrum: "Sie können mich nicht hypnotisieren. Ich bin nämlich Engländer."

No idea why a legend like Peter Cushing would have agreed to star in this storyless movie.

I like the monsters.

Mst3k 7/10

This movie has sets and props and... something vaguely like characters... I mean, Peter Cushing's there, he's always fun, and... no... actual story? Oh, it does have weird colonialist impulses and really confusing sexism. (Does it ever matter that she's a princess?) And... yeah, it keeps forgetting to explain the story we're theoretically in, or why we should care. ...I like the lurid colors? The sound effects for the telepathy are cool? ...there's just not much *here*.

Oddly enough, it leaves enough depths of badness unexplored that at its best it comes across as a rather charming B movie. Don't get me wrong, it's quite bad, but rarely boring. Cushing's character is a blast, and... well, it's what you'd expect of a dumb Tarzan spinoff.

Pretty funny.

Dire, unadulterated and relentless drivel.

Peter Cushing is hilarious!

This fantasy was Amicus Pictures's followup to their success _The Land That Time Forgot_ and is dumb but entertaining, with outlandish monsters and a funny performance by Cushing as the daffy professor.

The last gasp of the "19th-century science fiction" subgenre. I must say I don't miss it. I enjoy Peter Cushing's performance as an upper-class twit ("You can't mesmerize me! I'm British!") as I never saw him turn in an overtly comic performance before. Unfortunately, the movie as a whole is pretty routine

Lame movie with real bad SFX.