EDITOR’S NOTE: The Bubble was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, October 6, 1979 at 1:00 a.m. It played as Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth. 

Tony (Johnny Desmond) flies Mark (Michael Cole) and his pregnant wife Catherine (Deborah Walley) through a storm which causes them to land. She gives birth as the men wander the city, finding it filled with all sorts of odd buildings and technology, as well as drugged out people. It’s all covered by a dome that keeps people from leaving, other than the shadow that keeps appearing over the town that pulls people into the sky.

As Tony is taken away, Mark starts to dig under the dome before he’s caught. He gives a speech about being free, just in time for it to rain and the aliens to go away.

The Bubble came out in 3D in 1966, years after the first of the fad, and had twenty minutes of pure popping out at the camera moments that got cut from the 2D version of this. This was made in Space-Vision 3-D, the same process that was used for Andy Warhol’s Dracula. It was directed and written by Arch Oboler, who also directed and wrote the 3D movie Bwana Devil and The Twonky.

You can watch this on YouTube.