Paul Blaisdell, Monster Maker: A Biography of the B Movie Makeup and Special Effects Artist. : CS1 maint: uses authors parameter ( link) 'The Weird and Wacky World of Larry Buchanan'. The Films of Larry Buchanan: A Critical Examination. In the Year 2889 was released on DVD by Retromedia Entertainment in 2004, packaged as a double feature with Buchanan's 1969 film 'It's Alive!'. I don't want to know a damn thing about them. I was absolutely spellbound.It's just absolutely unbelievable that they (remade) those. I sat there.staring at it, and i just couldn't believe it. He said 'I recognized some of the dialogue coming out of the actors' mouths because it was a direct steal from Day the World Ended. He hadn't been told that all of his old AIP films had been remade in Color. ĪIP's 1950s special effects technician Paul Blaisdell, who handled the effects in the original AIP film Day the World Ended, happened to come across the film while channel surfing on a Saturday afternoon. All promotional materials, including the original listing in TV Guide, have the title as Year 2889, but the on-screen credits give the correct title.

In the Year 2889 was completed and released in 1967 as a made-for-television movie. (The film however did not follow the Jules Verne story at all.) The screenplay was written for Buchanan by Harold Hoffman. Īlthough not set in the year 2889, In the Year 2889 's title is borrowed from a short story of the same title by Jules Verne and his son, Michael Verne. AIP commissioned low-budget cult film auteur Larry Buchanan to produce and direct this film as a color remake of Roger Corman's 1956 film Day the World Ended. The film stars Paul Petersen, Quinn O'Hara, Charla Doherty, Neil Fletcher and Hugh Feagin. In the Year 2889 (also known as Year 2889) is a 1969 American made-for-television horror science fiction film from American International Pictures about the aftermath of a future nuclear war.

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