Night of the Big Heat

  • Science Fiction
  • Horror
  • Thriller
5/1/1967
94

Searing Terror! Burning In Its Intensity!

While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to blame.

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  • Wuchak

    Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and a slut are burning up off the coast of Britain

    A sultry woman (Jane Merrow) travels to Fara, an Island in Northern UK, to work as the secretary of an author (Patrick Allen). The latters naïve wife (Sarah Lawson) runs the Inn where everyone stays, including a polite man (Peter Cushing) and a standoffish scientist (Christopher Lee). Its the middle of the winter yet temperatures are rising to well over 100 degrees and people are turning up dead. Whats going on?

    Island of the Burning Damned, aka Night of the Big Heat (1967) was made by the same short-lived company that released the similar Island of Terror a year earlier, both featuring Peter Cushing and director Terence Fisher. It walks the balan...

    April 2, 2020
  • Geronimo1967

    Or perhaps it ought to be called "Night of the Slow Burn"? It's all set on a sweltering island whose residents can't quite figure out why it's so hot there yet snowing on the adjacent mainland. That question might be answered by visiting, and rather grumpy, scientist "Hanson" (Christopher Lee) who is staying at the local pub owned by writer "Jeff" (Patrick Allen) and his wife "Frankie" (Sarah Lawson). Just to add to the mystery, a new secretary arrives and it's fairly clear that "Angela" (Jane Merrow) and her boss have some extra-curricular history so the temperature is rising metaphorically too. "Hanson" has a theory - but it's so very fantastic that nobody believes him until the local doctor "Stone" (Peter Cushing) goes to investigate som...

    December 8, 2024

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