Best Horror Movies. An old staple of late night BBC TV back in the 1990s, Night of the Big Heat is a dopey old sci-fi horror directed by the patchy Terence Fisher on one of his rare late career non-Hammer assignments. Only a stand-offish visiting scientist suspects aliens are to blame. Movie & TV guides. Directed by Terence Fisher. It's not a classic of the genre, but it's not bad, either. Night of the Big Heat is a science fiction novel written in 1959 by John Lymington.It tells the story of an unnamed British island that is experiencing a bizarre and stifling heatwave. If ever I get a job as a night time radio presenter, I will read this on Halloween. It’s I decent science fiction horror brought up a notch or two by inspired casting. I love this movie. It works that the "big heat" wasn't shown until the final few minutes of the film, showing up just time to be destroyed. Time Out says. Film, Science fiction. Directed by Cyril Coke. Night of the Big Heat, now wonderfully restored to blu-ray by Odeon Entertainment, was one such joining of top talent. Much like almost all non-Hammer horror films made around that time, it's cast like a Hammer film and it's as stupidly entertaining as most of them. There are no approved quotes yet for this movie. While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties. The boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Conclusion: Night of The Big Heat (1967) Film Review. Worth watching because of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, but the rest of the cast do a good job too. The main characters are a former novelist named Richard Callum and his wife Frankie, who own a pub called the White Lion. Watching Cushing in his three scenes it is obvious why most of the time he had the main part and the other actors had to settle for being the villagers. With Lee Montague, Melissa Stribling, Sally Bazely, Bernard Cribbins. Night of the Big Heat is short on monsters but long on well-developed characters and carefully constructed suspense. It’s a film that makes the most of the resources they had to play with. Plot summary. In Night Of The Big Heat, he is the villager who has to be baffled about the unseasonal heat and listen to the explanations of others. January 11, 2021 . With a title sounding like a 70's bad porno, "Night of the Big Heat" continued my British horror/sci-fi extravaganza. Jim and Mark take a look at 1967’s “Night Of The Big Heat,| also released as “Island Of The Burning Damned,” starring Christopher Lee, Jane Merrow, Peter Cushing, Patrick Allen, Sarah Lawson and William Lucas. Night of the Big Heat. With Christopher Lee, Patrick Allen, Peter Cushing, Jane Merrow. Plot summary. The main characters are a former novelist named Richard Callum and his wife Frankie, who own a pub called the White Lion. 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