Close up, the monsters look like sections of rough concrete wall and the decision to film them in closeup is only one example of the total lack of talent or effort with which the picture is made.the movie is a kind of no-talent competition in which the acting, the script, the direction and the camera-work vie for last place." More recently, in more positive vein, BFI Screenonline said, "Extravagant, colourful and thoroughly preposterous, At the Earth's Core is utterly without pretension but has the exuberant charm of the best of its decade." Īmongst contemporary critics, however, The New York Times was not impressed: "All the money used to make 'At the Earth's Core' seems to have been spent on building monsters with parrotlike beaks that open, close, and emit a steady squawling as if someone were vacuuming next door. The film was popular, becoming the 18th most profitable British film of 1976. The film premiered at the Marble Arch Odeon in London on 15 July 1976. Some worked better than others – but we were experimenting and trying something different." Release Needless to say it was very cramped and the stunt guys had to take frequent breathers. We had a somewhat bigger budget thanks to the success of ‘Land.’ The beasts were specially designed so that small stunt guys could work inside the suits in a crouched position and on all-fours. Kevin Connor later recalled, "we tried to get the beasts bigger so as to interact better with the actors – more one on one. The film was made following the success of The Land That Time Forgot.
David falls for the beautiful slave girl Princess Dia ( Caroline Munro) but when she is chosen as a sacrificial victim in the Mahar city, David and Perry must rally the surviving human slaves to rebel and not only save her but also win their freedom. They are captured by the Mahars, who keep primitive humans as their slaves through mind control. Abner Perry ( Peter Cushing), a British Victorian scientist, and his US financier David Innes ( Doug McClure) make a test run of their Iron Mole drilling machine in a Welsh mountain, but end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic flying reptiles, the Mahars ( Pterodactyls with parrot-like beaks), and full of prehistoric beasts and cavemen. The original music score was composed by Mike Vickers.ĭr. It was filmed in Technicolor, and is based on the 1914 fantasy novel At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first book of his Pellucidar series, in token of which the film is also known as Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core. The film was directed by Kevin Connor and stars Doug McClure, Peter Cushing and Caroline Munro. $1.5 million or $400,000-$500,000 Īt the Earth's Core is a 1976 British-American fantasy- science fiction film produced by Britain's Amicus Productions.
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