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Plot Summary
In this interstellar cautionary tale, brash U.S. Navy test pilot Dan Prescott, hungry for fame, rockets himself beyond Earth’s atmosphere, only to become encrusted with cosmic dust and return a blood-drinking monster.
Customer Reviews
Horrible movie
I love Criterion and I love great movies. But I also I love movies so bad they're good. This movie has no redeeming factors. You'd just be wasting 1:20 of your life. BIG letdown by Criterion and Apple for carrying it.
One of my earliest sci-fi favorites
This is another one of those films that I fondly remember watching on the weekend "Creature Features" and I found it to be good and scary. As with another film I recently rated, this is a film I used to search the TV listings and channels for, and once in a great while, I was lucky enough to find it.
Today, this movie is not so scary, but I still really enjoy watching it. There's something cool about a movie that's about an astronaut who prematurely chooses to break the bonds of earth to become the first man in space only to be punished by becoming a monster, permanently encrusted in weird stony skin of cosmic dust, his breathing labored as he tries to walk and he must feed on blood to stay alive. What more could you want?
Decent production value and acting, probably better than many other 50's sci-fi movies. I guess the Criterion Collection couldn't dig up the original trailers, so we end up with the unedited movie clip that someone (who the heck is in charge of this?) chooses as a trailer.
Thanks to iTunes and the Criterion Collection, I no longer have to hunt around hoping to catch this movie on TV. I can now rent it any time or just buy it outright. I'll be searching for more of these gems here.
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- $19.99
- Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Released: 1958
- © 1958, renewed 1986 Almagamated Productions, Inc.