The Cult Cinema Classics channel has added In the Year 2889. It’s instructive (if a slog) to watch the difference between a B movie and a Z movie, and nothing illustrates this like watching one of Larry Buchanan’s remakes of one of Roger Corman’s cheapies from the 1950s. I always summed up Corman by saying, he was willing to do anything to make his movies the best that they could be, as long it as it didn’t cost another nickel. Admittedly, Buchanan might have had even less money to make this package of remakes, but he certainly lacked any passion or sense of fun about them either. And hey, at least Day the World Ended had a bit of a name cast, at least for a certain very refined movie-watching demographic: Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Mike Connors, Paul Birch, and Jonathan Haze. Anyway, if you can bring yourself to, give it a look.
