The Day It Came To Earth, in which a corpse is revived by a meteor. Very cheap, 1970s sort-of-pastiche of 50s grade-Z scifi with a hopeless monster and terrible performances. Having just checked BBC Genome it would appear that my long-standing memory of having watched this on the BBC and thinking "what is this shite doing on the BBC" is somehow a false one. Could it have turned up on Channel 4 in the early 80s? The only alternative I can think of is that I rented a pre-code VHS (the BBFC certified release was in 1996 and it certainly wasn't as late as that that I saw it).
Incidentally, the DVD I'm watching it on is a Grindhouse Double Feature from Frolic Pictures. It's paired with Tender Dracula. The programme starts with Lonely Water (quite an odd choice for a US disc), followed by trailers for The Witching (AKA Necromancy) and The Beast in the Cellar. After the first feature there is an intermission bumper and trailers for The Bloodstained Shadow and The Slayer.
The Day It Came To Earth, in which a corpse is revived by a meteor. Very cheap, 1970s sort-of-pastiche of 50s grade-Z scifi with a hopeless monster and terrible performances. Having just checked BBC Genome it would appear that my long-standing memory of having watched this on the BBC and thinking "what is this shite doing on the BBC" is somehow a false one. Could it have turned up on Channel 4 in the early 80s? The only alternative I can think of is that I rented a pre-code VHS (the BBFC certified release was in 1996 and it certainly wasn't as late as that that I saw it).
Incidentally, the DVD I'm watching it on is a Grindhouse Double Feature from Frolic Pictures. It's paired with Tender Dracula. The programme starts with Lonely Water (quite an odd choice for a US disc), followed by trailers for The Witching (AKA Necromancy) and The Beast in the Cellar. After the first feature there is an intermission bumper and trailers for The Bloodstained Shadow and The Slayer.