Whole this film take this little time getting to the good stuff, once it does, it really gets going. A mission to Mars doesn't find a group of females who have started their own civilization (guarded by a spooky giant spider (as in "Missile to the Moon"), but it finds some sort of fungus that when it attaches itself onto the astronauts causes an effect that threatens to destroy the universe should it get back to Earth. Wait till you see how it grows, moving along might Lucy Ricardo's bread coming out of the oven, and there's a lot more than yeast in this potential plague. It has the potential to cover a whole person's body, leading to the whole spaceship nearly covered in this messy organism.
William Leslie and Dolores Faith are the stars of this Z grade science fiction film which is actually pretty good considering the low-budget it was made on. Special effects involving this fungus are genuinely creepy, and the one victim overtaken by it has a look that has to be seen to be believed. There is also evidence that it has a bit of mind control as well, making various members of the crew paranoid about others activities aboard. Back at mission control, it seems like the only way to stop this fungus from coming to Earth is to destroy the space ship and everyone on it, and that's a gruesome plan nobody really wants to have to go through with. So you've got some interesting science fiction elements and human interest, creating lots of tension. Definitely not a classic, but worth seeking out.
William Leslie and Dolores Faith are the stars of this Z grade science fiction film which is actually pretty good considering the low-budget it was made on. Special effects involving this fungus are genuinely creepy, and the one victim overtaken by it has a look that has to be seen to be believed. There is also evidence that it has a bit of mind control as well, making various members of the crew paranoid about others activities aboard. Back at mission control, it seems like the only way to stop this fungus from coming to Earth is to destroy the space ship and everyone on it, and that's a gruesome plan nobody really wants to have to go through with. So you've got some interesting science fiction elements and human interest, creating lots of tension. Definitely not a classic, but worth seeking out.