Terror from the Year 5000

Terror from the Year 5000
Theatrical release poster
designed by Albert Kallis,
artwork by Reynold Brown
Directed byRobert J. Gurney Jr.
Written byRobert J. Gurney Jr.
Henry Slesar
Produced byRobert J. Gurney Jr.
Samuel Z. Arkoff
James H. Nicholson
Gene Searchinger
StarringWard Costello
Joyce Holden
John Stratton
Salome Jens
Fred Herrick
CinematographyArthur Florman
Edited byDede Allen
Music byRichard DuPage
Release date
  • 1958 (1958)
Running time
66 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Terror from the Year 5000 (a.k.a. Cage of Doom in the UK) is a 1958 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film, produced by Robert J. Gurney Jr, Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson and Gene Searchinger; directed by Robert J. Gurney Jr, and starring Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, John Stratton, Salome Jens and Fred Herrick. The screenplay is based (uncredited) on the short story "Bottle Baby" by print/TV/film writer Henry Slesar that was published in the science fiction magazine Fantastic (April 1957). American International Pictures released the film as a double feature with either The Screaming Skull or The Brain Eaters.