The Day Time Ended
“Their Adventure Began...”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 62, rated by 1 admin.
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A desert home becomes the meeting point for aliens, strange creatures and an increasingly unreliable universe. The family can barely finish reacting before the next spectacle turns up. Treat this as a supernatural show-and-tell: the imagery is the attraction, and the explanations are largely elsewhere.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 5.5/10
- Plot
- 9/10
- Effects
- 4.5/10
- Dialogue
- 5.5/10
- Rewatchability
- 6.5/10
“Lovely desert property. Occasional disturbances in spacetime.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 62
Synopsis and movie facts
Deep in the desert, a rural American family is forced to endure a night of inter-dimensional, extra terrestrial terror when a UFO appears over their home.
- Released
- 1980
- Directed by
- John "Bud" Cardos
- Running time
- 80 min
Starring
- Jim Davis as Grant Williams
- Christopher Mitchum as Richard
- Dorothy Malone as Ana Williams
- Marcy Lafferty as Beth
- Natasha Ryan as Jenny
- Scott C. Kolden as Steve
- Roberto Contreras as Gas Station Attendant
Research behind this pick
Researched . Explore the film references and reviews below.
- Film reference · themoviedb.org
TMDB identity and credits retrieved on 2026-11-10: The Day Time Ended (1980), directed by John "Bud" Cardos. The importer rechecks identity, poster, synopsis, release date, runtime, genres and cast against live metadata.
- Review · millionmonkeytheater.com
The review finds the events difficult to make sense of and discusses the modest effects resources; the distinctive appeal is the succession of unexplained encounters. Full review text consulted on 2026-11-10.
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