The Earth Dies Screaming is a 1964 British science-fiction and horror film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Willard Parker, Virginia Field and Dennis Price.

A small group of survivors gathers in the local hotel bar, led by an American jet test pilot, Jeff Nolan.

[citation needed] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Once the fog of preliminary developments begins to disperse, robot-controlled eyeless zombies soon reveal themselves as the menace to Man.

The robots and mindless humans are effective enough, but tritely used; the acting is substandard; and the only surprise is that Elizabeth Lutyens was commissioned to write the musical score.

"[5] Boxoffice wrote: Willard Parker, who will be remembered for his sternfaced emoting in umpteen westerns over the decades, is teamed with his wife, Virginia Field, and Britain's Dennis Price in a brisk-paced science-fiction melodrama, very much within the mold and manner of all that has been accepted by the mass market.

... Parker, as an experimental test pilot back on earth after a terrible onslaught by unknown factors has wiped out practically everybody, brings compactness and conviction to his portrayal, and there is able enough support from Miss Field and Price.

Veteran horror director Terence Fisher hit the bottom of the alien-invasion barrel with the first in his off-Hammer sci-fi trilogy that continued with the better Island of Terror and Night of the Big Heat.

Test pilot Willard Parker returns to England and finds the entire population wiped out by robots that kill by touch and then reanimate their victims as eyeless zombies.

[10] British band UB40 released the single "The Earth Dies Screaming" (catalogue: Graduate GRAD 10) in 1980, which spent 12 weeks in the UK chart, peaking at number 10.