Yikes! indeed. The board was acting weird earlier, wouldn't load... so, I thought I already posted this. Quite sure, but here it is anyway:
The Night of the Big Heat - Brit. 1967 - already, before the credits roll, we see an oscilloscope explode, as a satellite dish rotates and a techie twiddles knobs. It's just a frequency monitor, like a CRT TV... it shouldn't blow up like that, but it does. Then we see a guy setting up photography gear in the woods, to take pictures when a rope is moved or something, and we see a girl in a sportscar roaring along the road a few times. Our photog leaves and an old woods hobo comes out and inspects everything, takes a newspaper and walks off. We still have no idea what's going on. When the girl's car overheats, she stops and hears a high-pitched sound. So does our hobo, who is set up in a cave, but the sound comes in after him and he apparently expires while grabbing his head and screaming.
We learn that the Island of Fara is having exceptionally high temperatures. Our cast is there, they end up in the Swan pub complaining about the heat. The noise reappears, but no idea what it is yet. A giant insect? Well, a flock of sheep have been killed. Our photog character is a recluse in a room full of electronics. The telephone is acting up but nobody is worried yet. Now a TV blows up. There's a big romantic subplot happening as the terrible sound causes a guy to drive off the road, he rolls once and explodes, pretty unlikely. Now something glowing comes down in a field. Photog admits he thinks we have an invasion by beings from another planet going down. Beer bottles explode in the pub, they have to smash them all. Pub guy attacks and molests cargirl, she scratches him and whacks him on the noggin with a metal box, he staggers and kicks furniture around as he runs off, we know he will be next to die. He is, and even though he's armed with an acetylene torch, the sound comes, we see the door opening, he screams, grabs his head and is burnt to cinders like the others by whatever it is that we haven't seen yet. Now the Doc gets burnt up at the gravel pit, the mainland is not alerted, this looks bad for the whole world, unless photog can come up with something. Meanwhile the heat is causing mild overacting. But, photog sees a woman burn up at the gravel pit, with her is Patches the dog who has been trying to warn people all throught the movie about something evil. Patches survives this flick.
Aha, now we get the intro scene of the oscilloscope blowing up, the ETs have cut off communication with the mainland. But, this base is where the ETs are attracted to, they've transported in through the satellite. And they are heating the planet up like an egg in a microwave. Finally - at 1:23 we see a glowing orange glob-thing on a rock on the beach, while our remaining cast attack the ETs using Very pistols and dynamite, during a thunderstorm. A whole box of TNT goes off as a brain-glob creature zaps Foster with that awful noise they make. Orange globs surround them in the gravel pit, there's no hope left, until the ridiculous cheezy ending suddenly ends all conjecture about anything, and the Earth is saved. Good performances by everyone save this movie to some degree. *spoiler >>> of how the ETs are done away with? - it rains.
The End.