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It! The Terror from Beyond Space
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Jerome Bixby (screenplay)
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Release Date:
August 1958 (USA) more
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It Breathes. It Hunts. It Kills! more
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The first manned expedition to Mars is decimated by an unknown life form...which stows away on the rescue ship. full summary | add synopsis
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THis movie scared the hell out of me in 1960 more (75 total)

Cast

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Marshall Thompson ... Carruthers
Shirley Patterson ... Ann Anderson (as Shawn Smith)
Kim Spalding ... Van Heusen
Ann Doran ... Mary Royce
Dabbs Greer ... Eric Royce
Paul Langton ... Calder
Robert Bice ... Purdue
Richard Benedict ... Bob Finelli
Richard Hervey ... Gino
Thom Carney ... Kienholz
Ray Corrigan ... It
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Also Known As:
It! The Vampire from Beyond Space
The Terror from Beyond Space
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69 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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The mask of the monster suit was altered considerably. When Ray Corrigan was fitted for the monster suit, the mask was initially too tight. Paul Blaisdell, the maker of the monster suit, had to remove and rebuild the monster's lower jaw so the mask would fit better. Unfortunately, Corrigan's chin stuck out through the opening made in the mask. Blaisdell made up Corrigan's chin to look like the monster's tongue. The mask's original eyes (large and catlike, a Blaisdell trademark) were also removed so that we see Corrigan's own eyes behind the mask. more
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Plot holes: Bullets, grenades, gas bombs, electricity and even a healthy dose of atomic radiation seemingly fail to harm the creature. But when Lt. James Calder is pinned between the induction pumps because of an injured leg, he manages to hold the creature at bay with a portable blow torch. more
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Spokesman at Press Conference: Ladies and gentlemen of the press, as you know the first attempt to send a spaceship to the planet Mars was made six months ago. We knew that that ship, the Challenge 141, had reached its destination. But that's all we knew. Teleradio communication with Mars ceased immediately...
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THis movie scared the hell out of me in 1960, 23 September 2006
Author: jmcd7910 from United States

I haven't seen this movie in 46 years, but the thing I remember about it is the fact that I was so terrified watching it, at nine years of age at the Lincoln Theatre in Kearny, NJ, that I had to leave before it ended. I didn't sleep well for many nights after that.

There was a scene I remember where a crew member opened an air duct access hatch (or what, as I recall now, looked like one), and a hand fell down in front of him, obviously belonging to a dead colleague of his. The creature had stuffed the body in the ductwork. That was all I could take. I threw my comic book (I always bought one for 10 cents on my way to the movies on Saturday afternoons. My mom would give me 35 cents, 10 for the comic and a quarter for the double feature with cartoons in between) up in front of my face so I couldn't see, and ran up the center aisle, out the doors, and away from that horror. I saw just about every monster/horror/sci-fi movie made in the 1950's on one or another of those wonderful Saturdays at the Lincoln Theatre, and the only other one that made me run out was House on Haunted Hill.

What I wouldn't give for another chance to see two movies and three cartoons for a quarter, through the unjaded eyes of a nine-year old boy, still able to be scared out of my wits by a guy in a rubber suit.

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