While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties. Directed by Terence Fisher. Best Horror Movies. The inhabitants of a remote village on Salisbury Plain are stricken by a sudden intense heatwave, and discover that it is the result of hideous aliens who are plotting to invade the planet. Movie & TV guides. The main characters are a former novelist named Richard Callum and his wife Frankie, who own a pub called the White Lion. January 11, 2021 . Night of the Big Heat is short on monsters but long on well-developed characters and carefully constructed suspense. Conclusion: Night of The Big Heat (1967) Film Review. The only thing against this is that 'Night of the Big Heat' is too long to be read in one sitting, (unless one pulls an all nighter!). It's an old tradition dating back to 'The 1001 Nights'. With a title sounding like a 70's bad porno, "Night of the Big Heat" continued my British horror/sci-fi extravaganza. An old staple of late night BBC TV back in the 1990s, Night of the Big Heat is a dopey old sci-fi horror directed by the patchy Terence Fisher on one of his rare late career non-Hammer assignments. There are no approved quotes yet for this movie. Reading aloud gave rise to 'Frankenstein' and also most of Dickens' corpus. If ever I get a job as a night time radio presenter, I will read this on Halloween. With Lee Montague, Melissa Stribling, Sally Bazely, Bernard Cribbins. The boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. It’s a film that makes the most of the resources they had to play with. It’s I decent science fiction horror brought up a notch or two by inspired casting. With Christopher Lee, Patrick Allen, Peter Cushing, Jane Merrow. Plot summary. Plot summary. Only a stand-offish visiting scientist suspects aliens are to blame. Night Of The Big Heat| Episode 258. It works that the "big heat" wasn't shown until the final few minutes of the film, showing up just time to be destroyed. Worth watching because of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, but the rest of the cast do a good job too. I love this movie. It's not a classic of the genre, but it's not bad, either. The main characters are a former novelist named Richard Callum and his wife Frankie, who own a pub called the White Lion. In Night Of The Big Heat, he is the villager who has to be baffled about the unseasonal heat and listen to the explanations of others. Watching Cushing in his three scenes it is obvious why most of the time he had the main part and the other actors had to settle for being the villagers. Night of the Big Heat, now wonderfully restored to blu-ray by Odeon Entertainment, was one such joining of top talent. Top 200 of all time Jim and Mark take a look at 1967’s “Night Of The Big Heat,| also released as “Island Of The Burning Damned,” starring Christopher Lee, Jane Merrow, Peter Cushing, Patrick Allen, Sarah Lawson and William Lucas. Directed by Cyril Coke. Night of the Big Heat is a science fiction novel written in 1959 by John Lymington.It tells the story of an unnamed British island that is experiencing a bizarre and stifling heatwave. Much like almost all non-Hammer horror films made around that time, it's cast like a Hammer film and it's as stupidly entertaining as most of them. Night of the Big Heat (Island of the Burning Damned) Quotes. Time Out says. Night of the Big Heat is a science fiction novel written in 1959 by John Lymington.It tells the story of an unnamed British island that is experiencing a bizarre and stifling heatwave. Film, Science fiction. Night of the Big Heat. Such joining of top talent old tradition dating back to 'The 1001 Nights ' one. 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