The Day the World Ended
| The Day the World Ended | |
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DVD cover | |
| Screenplay by |
Max Enscoe Annie deYoung |
| Story by | Brian King |
| Directed by | Terence Gross |
| Starring |
Nastassja Kinski Randy Quaid Bobby Edner |
| Theme music composer | Charles Bernstein |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
Lou Arkoff Colleen Camp Stan Winston |
| Cinematography | Mark Vargo |
| Editor(s) | Stephen Mark |
| Running time | 91 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Creature Features Productions |
| Distributor | Columbia TriStar Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | Cinemax |
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The Day the World Ended is a 2001 American science fiction/horror television film and is the fourth in the Creature Features series broadcast on Cinemax. It stars Nastassja Kinski, Randy Quaid, and Bobby Edner.
While not being a direct remake of the 1955 film with a similar title (Day the World Ended), it utilizes the original film by showing segments on a TV seen within the story and showing that the VHS video box cover as part of the child's interest in aliens. Some scenes were filmed in Wrightwood, California.
Plot
This film finds an alien, who is misunderstood, bent on hunting down and devouring people. A school psychologist, Dr Jennifer Stillman (Nastassja Kinski) investigates the death of a student's mother and finds that the boy (Bobby Edner) believes he is the son of the being. His earthling father (Randy Quaid) is also a doctor, who has the boy in his care and holds that it is all in the boy's imagination.
Cast
- Nastassja Kinski as Dr. Jennifer Stillman
- Randy Quaid as Dr. Michael McCann
- Bobby Edner as Ben Miller/McCann
- Harry Groener as Sheriff Ken
- Lee de Broux as Cook Harlan (as Lee DeBroux)
- Stephen Tobolowsky as Principal Ed Turner
- Debra Christofferson as Nurse Della Divelbuss
- Nik Dressbach as Buzzcut
- Brandon de Paul as Frankie Carter
- Kate Fuglei as Waitress Carlita
- Neil Vipond as The Judge
- Brian Steele as The Creature
- David Getz as Deputy #1
- Kathryn Fiore as Maggie Miller
- David Doty as Nice Guy
- Samantha Sansonetti as Crosswalk Child #1