Terror in the Midnight Sun
Seen it?1959 | 73 min | Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Horror
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With almost no lasting buzz and soft box office, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Tailor-made for fans of giant monsters and bigger battles and fans of stories set among the stars. The scale is huge: humanity is very much the underdog. Shelve it next to The Thing from Another World or Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Much of it plays out in space, so the scale is part of the thrill.
- The mood
- Scary.
- The pace
- Keeps the tension tight, at 1 hr 13 min. Done before bedtime.
- What might put you off
- Made in 1959: an older pace and style.
- Skip it if you like your stories firmly grounded in the real world.
After a herd of reindeer are mysteriously found dead following a meteor crash in a remote part of Lapland in northern Sweden, soldiers and a geologist are called out to investigate.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Box office & staying powerBelow par
$150K worldwide; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 5K people sought it out in the past year
Trailer
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Cast & crew
Directed by Virgil W. Vogel
- Barbara WilsonDiane Wilson
- Sten GesterErik Engström
- Robert BurtonDr. Frederick Wilson
- Bengt BlomgrenCol. Robert Bottiger
- Åke GrönbergDr. Henrik
- John CarradineNarrator (US Re-Edit)
- Gösta PrüzeliusDr. Walter Ullman
- Brita BorgSinger (uncredited)
- Doreen DenningAnna (uncredited)
- Ittla FrodiGirlfriend in Volvo (uncredited)