In the Year 2889
About In the Year 2889
A nuclear war has killed most of the people on Earth. Seven survivors shut themselves in a valley house and watch the radiation. Outside the mist, irradiated mutants are getting hungry. Inside, the seven turn on one another.
Cast & crew
More about In the Year 2889
Larry Buchanan produced and directed it for American International Pictures, and he edited it. Harold Hoffman wrote the screenplay from the script of Roger Corman's Day the World Ended. Lou Rusoff is credited as a writer on the earlier film's material. Robert C. Jessup photographed it. It runs 80 minutes. It is the fifth Azalea picture. AIP used a Jules Verne title it already had registered. The story is not Verne's. A television listing gives 19 January 1969. On-screen credits read In the Year 2889. Ads often said Year 2889.
Themes
Making
AIP handed Buchanan the Corman script and had him reshoot it in color for television. The new title was one the company had filed for a Verne project it never made.
Reviews
Paul Gaita, writing for AllMovie, called it threadbare and blandly executed, and said the pacing and the performances were more professional than Buchanan's earlier films.
Look
Robert C. Jessup photographed the valley house and the mist outside it.
Preservation
A print survives. Retromedia issued a DVD in 2004.
Notes
- Paul Petersen, Quinn O'Hara, Charla Doherty, Neil Fletcher, Hugh Feagin, and Bill Thurman are billed.
- Edwin Tobolowsky produced it with Buchanan.
- A timed copy runs 79 minutes 46 seconds.
- Retromedia put it on DVD in 2004, paired with Buchanan's It's Alive!
Scenes
- The seven bar the house against the mist.
- Mutants move in the radiation outside.
Influenced by
- Day the World Ended
Also available
- Internet Archive (InTheYear28891967)
- Wikimedia Commons (In the Year 2889.ogv)
- Retromedia DVD (2004), paired with It's Alive!
