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The Day the World Ended is a american film of genre Science fiction released in USA on 23 november 2001 with Nastassja Kinski
The Day the World Ended (2001)
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Add to a movie listThe 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.
Synopsis
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.Actors
Nastassja Kinski
(Dr. Jennife Stillman)
Randy Quaid
(Dr. Michael McCann)
Bobby Edner
(Ben Miller)
Stephen Tobolowsky
(Ed Turner)
Harry Groener
(Sherrif Ken)
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