BlazeLime
Strong and Moving!
StunnaKrypto
Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
Benedito Dias Rodrigues
Edgar Rice Burroughs is one of my favorite writers among Jules Verne and H. G. Wells,they wrote so many adventures who inspired movie makers around the world,this adaptation is kitsch but very entertainment in my youth time when l saw this picture by first time,this kind of fantasy mix with Sci-fi and adventure made my life more pleasant and enjoyable,so until now l've a expected to see more exiting movies like this,Doug Mcglure made more three movies from Burroughs's novel adaptation...all them wonderful!!! Resume: First watch: 1984 / How many: 4 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7
Rainey Dawn
Refreshing to see Peter Cushing in something outside of the standard horror or mystery genre. He is absolutely charming as Dr. Abner Perry.Dr. Perry and his assistant, David Innes, has just finished building their huge Iron Mole drilling machine. Their adventure begins promptly as they quickly burrow down into the Earth's Core. They step out of the machine and find themselves in a beautiful fantasy jungle - but watch out for that giant dinosaur bird guys! They find themselves captured and enslaved with other humans (cavemen) by strange dominating creatures/monsters. Humorously, these humans or cavemen speak English! How great for our two travelers - now they have help to figure out what's going one and might help them to find a way out of there!This one is just simply fun - no other way to word it. It's a terrible movie but has a certain silly charm to it that is appealing.6.5/10
gavin6942
A Victorian era scientist (Peter Cushing) and his assistant (Doug McClure) take a test run in their Iron Mole drilling machine and end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic bird and full of prehistoric monsters and cavemen.Although probably dated today (2015), this is still a fun film with some silly monsters and a plot that makes no real sense. Especially if one tries to think about it from a scientific point of view, and how gravity and air pressure would function (not to mention language). There are also some questions about whether or not the film is sexist, particularly since Caroline Munro more or less stays silent and looks pretty, but that is a whole other discussion.Cushing is great here (as always) and really shows his range as a vocal actor. He also has what is probably the best line in the movie, explaining why he cannot be mesmerized. Doug McClure is a good hero, though by the time he ended up with Amicus his prime years were behind him. Of course, being that this was the final Amicus film, their prime years were behind them, too.
Coventry
Those who thought that the center of our planet Earth only existed of rock, clay and lava should urgently reconsider! The Earth's core apparently is a vividly adventurous place, full of telepathic prehistoric monsters and even an entire civilization of primitive human beings, including some very hot and scantily dressed specimens like Caroline Munro! Professor Abner Perry (Peter Cushing, more British than afternoon tea) and his engineer/sponsor David Innes drill-dive underground in their gigantic mechanical mole and make a lot more scientific discoveries that they bargained for! "At the Earth's Core", based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is a totally preposterous but irresistibly charming B-movie with good old-fashioned campy effects, gloriously over-the-top acting performances and whack plot-twists. I've seen practically all movies in which Peter Cushing starred, but I never saw him overact so badly. That means that also he knew exactly what type of movie this was going to become: a totally undemanding, energetic and joyously entertaining piece of kitsch that you simply cannot detest. Stories about flying reptiles hypnotizing and sacrificing humans to their gods, lumpish guys in hilarious pterodactyl suits, man versus reptile battles, Munro wandering around in a furry bra and Cushing yelling lines like "You can't mesmerize me, I'm British"… What's there to detest, seriously? And even though the costumes and effects may look extremely cheap, the sets and decors are established with craftsmanship and great eye for detail, like for example the interiors of the Kevin Connor directed three more movies based on the writings of Burroughs, namely "The Land that Time Forgot", "The People that Time Forgot" and "Warlords of Atlantis". I haven't seen those yet, but I won't hesitate to pop them in during a next rainy Sunday afternoon.
