Fantafestival 2023


Il meglio del cinema fantastico internazionale: anteprime, incontri e retrospettive.

World premieres, meetings and movie retrospectives. The best of national and interational production in the fantastic genre compete for the golden bat given by Fantafestival.

Il progetto, promosso da Roma Culture, è vincitore dell'Avviso Pubblico Estate Romana 2020-2021-2022 curato dal Dipartimento Attività Culturali ed è realizzato in collaborazione con SIAE.

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Day the World Ended (1955) was the fourth film directed by Roger Corman. Rick (Richard Denning) is a heroic scientist who, among others, must face off against a mutant monster (Paul Blaisdell) after an atomic war destroys human civilization. Chet Huntley of NBC, who later formed The Huntley-Brinkley Report, narrates.

The film is referred to in a 2001 horror film of the same title, The Day the World Ended.