I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
Genre: Scifi / Thriller
Duration: 78 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Gene Fowler Jr.
Stars: Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott and Peter Baldwin
IMDb score:
6,3 (3.193)
Releasedate: 1 October 1958
I Married a Monster from Outer Space plot
"Shuddery things from beyond the stars, here to breed with human women!"
Aliens have mixed in with the population undetected and are slowly starting to take the place of real humans. The first victim is a young man who is about to get married. His wife has no idea who her husband really is.
Actors and actresses
Bill Farrell
Marge Bradley Farrell
Sam Benson
Helen Rhodes
Dr. Wayne
Max Grady - Bartender
Officer Hank Swanson
Officer Schultz
Police Capt. H.B. Collins
Harry Phillips
Reviews & comments
Vinokourov
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- 3143 messages
- 2909 votes
Nice and changeable this SF horror. The plot twists are not that compelling. The difference between day and night is not always clear either. But other special effects look reasonable to picobello. Especially the way in which the aliens died was very terrifying. In short, still a very nice movie.
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Donkerwoud
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- 8238 messages
- 3739 votes
None other than Stephen King drew attention to this nostalgic horror pulp via his Facebook page. Mainly because he found the title intriguing. It's an amusing rip-off of contemporaries like 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1956) and other classic invasion movies. This title has many single men making sarcastic remarks about the institution of marriage and a tragic romance between a human and an alien. The robotic acting is wooden and static, but it is precisely the surreality of it that contributes to the dryly comical atmosphere that the print seems to be about. Or maybe it's my nostalgia that makes it all seem a lot more comical in the present day. The few encounters with the alien race in their natural form rarely become scary due to the extremely cheesy effect that shows the transition from human to alien. Fortunately, this predictable nothingness works towards a most charming climax. It even elicits some sympathy for those damned aliens on their breeding mission
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clubsport
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- 3409 messages
- 6713 votes
I thought it was an amusing alien invasion story, not nearly as strong and oppressive as invasion of the body snatchers but it still has its charms.
The effects are (even for that time) not really strong, but we can leave that to our imagination.
Furthermore, the story is a bit weak, in which it is particularly noticeable that Marge does not use the knowledge she gains from the aliens to identify them.
The ending is surprisingly innovative.
A tight 3 stars seems like the maximum to me.
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