The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

Director:

William Sachs

Writer:

William Sachs (writer)

Release Date:

December 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Horror

Tagline:

The first new horror creature

Plot:

An astronaut is transformed into a murderous gelatinous mass after returning from an ill-fated space voyage.

Plot Keywords:

Astronaut | Saturn | Sun | Fisherman | Hospital

Cast

Alex Rebar	...	Steve West (The Melting Man)
Burr DeBenning	...	Dr. Ted Nelson
Myron Healey	...	General Michael Perry
Michael Alldredge	...	Sheriff Neil Blake
Ann Sweeny	...	Judy Nelson
Lisle Wilson	...	Dr. Loring
Cheryl Smith	...	The Model (as Rainbeaux Smith)
Julie Drazen	...	Carol
Stuart Edmond Rodgers	...	Little Boy
Chris Witney	...	Little Boy
Edwin Max	...	Harold
Dorothy Love	...	Helen
Janus Blythe	...	Nell Winters
Jonathan Demme	...	Matt Winters
Westbrook Claridge	...	Second Security Guard

Runtime:

84 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:(Banned) | Italy:VM14 | Australia:R | Finland:(Banned) | France:-16 | Norway:18 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18 | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

San Fernando Valley Generating Station, San Fernando, California, USA

Company:

American International Pictures (AIP)

Trivia:

The German title of this film is 'Der Planet Saturn Lept Schon Grupen'

Goofs:

Factual errors: Saturn is a gas giant and has no surface to speak of, just millions of square miles of clouds. This means it is literally impossible for a spacecraft to land there.

Quotes:

Second Security Guard: Who the hell are you?
Dr. Ted Nelson: I'm Dr. Ted Nelson!
First Security Guard: Don't move!
Dr. Ted Nelson: LISTEN TO ME I'M DOCTOR TED NELSON!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Blow Out (1981)

a movieland fairy tale

Once upon a time some evil people made a movie about a guy that got shot into space, supposedly to go to Saturn, but really only to some stock footage of solar flares, and then he gets a nose bleed, and before you know it, he's laying in a hospital bandaged head to foot, and then an overweight nurse with an ill-fitting uniform comes in and gets eaten by the guy, whose supposed to be melting all over the place but never seems to lose any mass, and then NASA, or at least one guy at NASA, gets upset about it and calls one other guy in to hunt him down, but the guy they sent to hunt the melting guy has to go home and have soup first, and his oddly-shaped wife forgot the crackers, so he can't have crackers, and then he has to go out and look for the melting guy with a geiger counter, and that doesn't really work, so he really only follows the trail of half-eaten corpses, and then there's something about a sheriff, and two ugly old people in a lemon grove, and a women with a meat cleaver, and some kind of industrial plant with trigger-happy security guards, and since I can't tell you how the movies ends, all I can say is Jonathan Demme is in it somewhere with some guy with the stupid name of Burr DeBenning, and if there's any justice in the world everyone connected with this movie died a hideous, violent death and was unable to make more movies, and the world lived HAPPILY EVER AFTER - THE END!