The Quiet Earth

In a tour-de-force sci-fi story with only three main characters, Kiwi director Geoffrey Murphy creates an interesting dynamic nuanced with shades of mysticism. When scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) experiments with a radical new power source -- a band of energy that would circle the planet -- ...more

With a premise that invariably recalls the various screen incarnations of Richard Matheson's novel -I Am Legend, Geoff Murphy's The Quiet Earth (originally released in New Zealand in 1985) also concerns the unraveling routines of a single human living among the suddenly abandoned remains of society, but it follows its doomsday logic to a place more cerebral and chilling than the ever-present menace of night-walking zombies. The title says it all, and that very absence of noise is what makes the ...more