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Science Fiction, Horror 80 min
Rotten Tomatoes81%Metacritic68IMDb
Fantastic sights leap out at you!
Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
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When a fireball blazes through the sky then leaves a smouldering crater in the desert, local writer “Putnam” (Richard Carlson) decides that he and girlfriend “Ellen” (Barbara Rush) have to hop on their friend’s helicopter and explore the scene. Thing is, when he gets to the bottom of the rubble he could swear he saw something. Before he can get any corroboration, a rockfall buries the site and with the army as disbelieving of his subsequent assertions as every one else, it doesn’t look like anyone is going to be digging anything up. It’s when they are driving back into town and encounter the telephone repair guys “George” (Russell Johnson) and his pal “Frank” (Joe Sawyer) that they get their first real clue that something is amiss. Is it benign? Is it malevolent? Is it all just their imagination amidst the Joshua trees and creepy crawlies of the desert? There can’t have been much cash to spend here, so Jack Arnold has wisely decided not to try to dumb the thing down with cheap visual effects and endless latex. Nor does it turn into one of those militaristic exercises where the potential visitors are surrounded by tanks and Howitzers. The idea that there could be visitors to this pl
Read the whole review on TMDBBecause you don't understand it, you want to kill it. An alien ship crashes into the desert, at first it's thought to only be a meteorite, but small time scientist Richard Carlson gets to view the stricken ship before it is totally buried beneath the collapsing crater it created upon its crash landing. Nobody believes Carlson, but soon the aliens start taking on human form and it's then that everyone else must sit up and take notice before it's deemed too late. It Came From Outer Space stands as one of the better sci-fi pictures to come out of the Cold War 1950s. Based on the Ray Bradbury story "The Meteor", the story leans heavily on anti-conformist themes and confidently trumpets something different to ourselves actually having the damn right to be different, and that is something I can personally truck with. As with most of the other films from the sci-fi/alien genre, "it" perfectly captures the paranoia of the people, the sense of mistrust befitting the atomic age, the fear of the desert never more evident than it is here. Directed with some style from genre guru "Jack Arnold" ("This Island Earth"/"The Incredible Shrinking Man"), the film was originally shot in 3D, and though s
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