It! The Terror From Beyond Space [1958 film]
by Edward L. Cahn
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In 1973, the first manned expedition to Mars is marooned. By the time a rescue mission arrives, only the leader of the expedition is left alive. He is accused of murdering his crew and is taken into custody. As the rescue ship returns to earth, the real killer, a life-devouring monster that has stowed aboard, begins attacking the crew. The remaining crew must find some way to stop it before the ship returns to a panic-striken Earth.Tags
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Beautifully atmospheric, claustrophobic, genuinely creepy monster flick, an obvious ancestor of Ridley Scott's "Alien." Decent acting, the monster is obviously a guy in a suit, but the film does what it needs to do-- suspends your disbelief an puts you on that ship. One of my favorite Fifties Sci-Fi flicks.
2021 movie #201. 1958. With a plot that sounds like "Alien", it could have been decent. But it's not. Hilariously terrible. In one scene they try to kill the monster on the spaceship with a bazooka. Spoiler alert: it doesn't work. Neither did the hand and gas grenades, or pistols
Inspiration for the original script of Alien by O'Bannon.
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- It! The Terror From Beyond Space [1958 film]
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