Planet of the Apes (1968) | 2025 Electric Film Series

FMASU’s Electric Film Series returns to The Electric Theater on May 20th with a FREE screening of a legendary sci-fi adventure from the 1960s that you won’t forget. At the very least, it’s a film punctuated by an epic twist ending that had audiences absolutely gobsmacked; 

“Planet of the Apes” (1968)

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The great Charlton Heston stars as an astronaut who awakens from extended hyper-sleep to find himself marooned on a planet ruled by apes. And on this particular planet (Lake Powell is a stand in for stretches of the film), make no mistakes; Humans are certainly the minority. This is a sci-fi epic filled with social commentary and grand adventure in equal measure. And leave it to co-writer Rod Serling (the mastermind behind “The Twilight Zone”) to pull the rug out from under moviegoers by way of that aforementioned ending. Beyond that, Heston is all charisma as George Taylor…