END was one of those 1950s sci-fi quickies that briefly played the nation's drive ins and then were resurrected on TV a few years later, to play endlessly to fill time. Peter Graves is a scientist battling giant grasshoppers, which are shown climbing photos of the Chicago skyline and otherwise are poorly matted into some live action scenes, so they appear to be the ghosts of grasshoppers. I suspect some of the fightin' army sequences were also used in the same director's AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN and COLOSSAL BEAST, which used the same poor matte special effects. You know the scene in ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT WOMAN where Alison Hayes picks up a photo of a car? That's the level of the special effects going on here. Minus the comely Ms. Hayes. Skip it. Even the MST3K version doesn't help much.
Review of Beginning of the End
