IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE
- IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE
Film (1958). Vogue/United Artists. Dir Edward L. Cahn, starring Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, Kim Spalding. Screenplay Jerome BIXBY. 69 mins. B/w.
In this largely mediocre film there are good, tense moments. The crew of a spaceship returning from Mars discover that "something" has stowed away: a monster which attacks crew members (for their blood and soft parts) and stores their bodies in the ship's ventilation system as future snacks. The survivors are slowly forced to retreat, section by section, as the seemingly invulnerable creature takes over the ship. An effective build-up of suspense takes place so long as the monster is kept vague and shadowy. The ending (the crew don spacesuits then asphyxiate the monster by draining the craft of oxygen) is one of several plot similarities to the later ALIEN (1979), but I!TTFBS itself cannot claim great originality, being reminiscent of A.E. VAN VOGT's (uncredited) "The Black Destroyer" (1939).
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