Like most such low budget films, the producers wisely went with people who did a lot of TV work, as they were used to shooting on a very fast schedule. The two leads were also genre vets. Crowley had starred in the fun robot-invasion flick Target: Earth Franz, for his part, starred in several such films amongst all his other work.
Sadly, Flame Barrier would easily prove his worst sci-fi movie. Even more promising were the names behind the camera. The story and co-scripting were by George Worthing Yates, most famous for providing the admittedly somewhat altered story for Them!
Past that the level of film he worked on often plummeted pretty severely. He ended up scripting several, on the high end, Ray Harryhausen movies, and on the lower one, Bert I. The two worked on several other quite good genre films right in a row, collaborating on most of them, including The Monster the Challenged the World , The Vampire and The Return of Dracula But my hopes were for naught.
Although The Flame Barrier was produced in the middle of those much more enjoyable films, it proved, as Tom warned, a rather tepid stinker. I held out for hopes for about 20 or even thirty minutes, because I threw in the towel. Even Bert I. The husband was tracking a fallen satellite through the jungle. While tracking him down, the trio discover a Read all Carol Dahlmann enlists the Hollister brothers to help locate her missing husband. While tracking him down, the trio discover an unusually strong acid killing animals and people.
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The husband was tracking a fallen satellite through the jungle. While tracking him down, the trio discover an unusually strong acid killing animals and people. I only watched the whole movie because I am a fifties' science fiction film freak, and never saw this one.
It's terrible! Fortunately they don't bite As cheapie sci-fi horrors go, the pointlessly entitled "The Flame Barrier" is watchable and slightly memorable especially the head sticking out of the blob. Crowley and Brown deserve credit for their casual and competent handling of the chimpanzee. A few good shocks, but a plot loaded with loose ends.
I have an original poster for this double bill hanging in my living room. I first saw this film as a kid on T. It was frequently shown on "Supernatural Theater.
On the plus side: I will admit the film does have a few good shocks. One character suddenly burns to death and turns into a skeleton for reasons that that are never adequately explained and the shot of the dead scientist body embedded in protoplasmic mass are pretty effective.
The cast is good and the direction involving enough that you forget half the film consists of the cast cutting through brush. However, the script has the feel of having been written very quickly. The film wraps up leaving the viewer with more loose ends than an old dish rag.
When the explorers find the satellite and protoplasmic mass, they also find the monkey that was sent up in satellite still alive. Why did the protoplasmic mass not devour it or destroy it with its radiation when the monkey was in the satellite with it? As the previous reviewer here pointed out, this blob stays in one place and much of the plot depends on this.
Yet, before the cast even encounters the blob, they encounter charred skeletons, a blood soaked Indian village, and then there is the Indian guide who was never near the blob encased satellite, who suffers from radiation burns and then mysteriously burns up down to a skeleton. Perhaps the satellite brought something else back with it that the adventurers didn't encounter? Perhaps more likely this film was rushed into production before the writers had time for a re-write to tie up all the loose ends.
Like "Monster of Green Hell", much of this movie is taken up with a long African safari. The three principal characters argue, struggle and search mainly for a reason to continue. Natives provide it several times just as the party is ready to turn back. The acting is good and the continuing ambivalent relationship between the rich woman and the safari leader continues to warm up.
There is no real special effects until they reach the location they sought after. The final scene is the only one that qualifies as science fiction.
A good movie but light on science fiction.
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