Written by Wyott Ordung, John Croydon and Charles F. Vetter
Directed by Robert Day
Starring Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards and Robert Ayres
USA, 1959
This clumsily titled slice of sci-fi horror follows the misadventures of an astronaut who returns from space as a monster on a killing spree. Only his square-jawed military brother can hunt him down and stop him.
My little synopsis above is more tongue in cheek than this movie is, by a lot. The unique thing about this paranoid 50s thriller is how deadly serious it is. All the space stuff up front seems plausible, and the solution in the end manages to be bother science-based, while also involving an emotional sacrifice and some character growth. You could accuse this short flick of being a little dry and a little slow, but you can’t accuse it of not being the real thing.
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