The Cremators (1972)
An additional film on the same Retromedia disc as Octoman, apparently because it was made by the same director. My bet is this was the only way anyone would actually buy this turgid sci-fi mess.
The plot is basic - An alien life form arrives in backwoods town USA in the form of a large fireball and rolls over people to consume their energy leaving them as ash on the ground.
Although it has potential, after all it's not a story line too far removed from The Night of the Big Heat. The Cremators is so poorly executed with pacing all over the place as well as shoddy editing and an extremely dull script that seems to be a few short sequences of the fireball lazily rolling over someone intercut into long, deathly dull scenes of two scientists gawping into test tubes, with seemingly hundreds of shots of microbes on a slide.
The movie poster shown below is easily the best thing about the film meaning The Cremators is a serious case of i've watched this so that you don't have to. |