one of the best films ever made about terrornauts

Very low budget,and public access TV level special effects mar what is a quite talky and well acted "hard" SF story. Quite British, the tea lady is vital to science.

It's pretty clear what from the outset what kind of film this is going to be - it's a sixties sf movie with Charles Hawtrey in it, after all. It's hammy, camp and cheap with an absurd plot and variable acting - but it's hugely entertaining nonsense, if you're in the mood for that kind of thing.

Not everything needs to be 2001 or Solaris...

Trippy, fun, cut-price space ham for fans of Space Invaders and Charles Hawtry! "But Joe!, You need that telescope!" Fire!!

The Terrornauts is an old Amicus film that has all the production values of a vintage Dr. Who episode. Cheap, that is. It's a rather bizarre science fiction story, but not without entertainment value. Being a big Carry On fan, I was rather surprised to see Charles Hawtree in a sci-fi movie. The acting is just so-so. Apart from Hawtree, the only other actors I recognized were Zena Marshall (Miss Taro in Dr. No) and – in a bit part at the end – André Maranne (Sergeant François Duval in several of the Pink Panther films). Special effects by Les Bowie, who seemed to work on anything from shoestring budget productions to big budget films like Superman, The Movie. This is definitely one of the former. OK as a bit of sixties nostalgia, if you can dig the really cheap look.

Sci-Fi tat from Amicus Productions that is so cheap it makes their two 60s Dalek movies look like Avatar in comparison. If you've always wanted to see a movie that whisks Charles Hawtrey and Patricia Hayes off into outer space, then this is the movie for you. If not, then I can't think of anyone else to recommend this rubbish to.

Not enough sci-fi films feature a tea lady.

I love a good starships-on-strings-wobbly-rolling-robots-bath-cap-headed-aliens-single-digit-budget-special-effects-spartan-control-room-with-no-labels-on-the-panels movie. The best part--the Cockney-accented accountant and tea-servant who both become part of the team that travels in the spacecraft. From the same production house who brought you the Dr. Who movies. While maybe not in the same so-bad-it's-good league as Plan 9 From Outer Space, it's ranked as one of the worst films from Amicus.

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Slightly better than They Came From Beyond Space, but only because it's so weird and kind of fun. The sets are about on par with Dr Who at the time (which makes sense because I think a lot of these are recycled from the two Amicus Dr Who films) and the creatures are...um...well, they're better than an inflatable chair, I guess.

This was played as a double feature with TCFBS and it was considered one of the worst double features to ever exist. I can see why. I'm a little surprised Amicus survived these. They would go back to horror soon...but there's a drama first.

Oh dear.

A shockingly bad, nonsensical sci-fi film with a ludricously lazy plot and atrociously cheap production design. Nothing makes sense, and it commits the gravest sin of all: being very, very boring.

Sci-Fi tat from Amicus Productions that is so cheap it makes their two 60s Dalek movies look like Avatar in comparison. If you've always wanted to see a movie that whisks Charles Hawtrey and Patricia Hayes off into outer space, then this is the movie for you. If not, then I can't think of anyone else to recommend this rubbish to.

From the sublime (A Canterbury Tale) to the ridiculous - The Terrornauts - pretty awful b movie fare (but there is something that connects the 2 movies - Charles Hawtrey)

Pretty dreadful in every department but it’s terribly watchable. The shoddy effects and set design create a laughable backdrop to the actually quite interesting story. 

British sci fi b movie of the 60s in all the best and worst ways. Including a fantastic poster that is nothing like the movie!

So bad it's almost good.

This is klunky as hell but the last 15 minutes of this are brilliant. The spaceship battle at the end is just like watching one from a Buster Crabbe "Flash Gordon" seriel, complete with swimming cap plus random wires for space helmets. This film also features the best paper moons special effect ever. Usually you can see matte lines around such things but in this film it genuinely looks like 2 paper moons in the sky. Extraordinary.

In the film a group of scientists (with an auditor and a tea lady!) are kidnapped and taken into outer space aboard a spaceship. The special effects often would have embarrassed Ed Wood and how Charles Hawtrey and Patricia Hayes ended up in this film is something I would like to know. I suspect their agents got an earful for getting them involved with it. The film often left me scratching my head at what was going on! Not one to see again.

Not enough sci-fi films feature a tea lady.

An Amicus production (one of my fave british 60s-70s horror film companies), this sci-fi film is terrible. The end makes really no sense. I kinda liked it. The title “terrornauts” is wildly misleading, if only it’d been saved for something cool!

If Victoria Wood had written a parody science fiction film it might have been this. With Patricia Hayes and Charles Hawtrey on board it has an Acorn Antiques quality about it. In space. The model work is heaven. Rainy day afternoon fun.