It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)

Directed by

Edward L. Cahn

Genre

horror film, science fiction film, monster film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 08m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 116 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A rescue crew travels to Mars to investigate a lost expedition. They find one survivor who claims a monster killed his crew. Skeptical at first, the rescue team soon faces the creature as it stalks them aboard their spaceship.

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What happens

It! The Terror from Beyond Space is an independently made 1958 American science fiction horror film, produced by Robert Kent, directed by Edward L. Cahn, starring Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, and Kim Spalding. It was released by United Artists on August 7, 1958, and played as a double feature with Curse of the Faceless Man. The story involves Earth's second mission to Mars to discover the fate of the first. The single survivor from that crashed spaceship, the expedition commander, claims his crew was killed by a Martian life form. None of the rescue crew believes him until the creature, now a stowaway, begins hunting them on their return trip to Earth. The film's premise (along with Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires) has been cited as inspiration for Dan O'Bannon's screenplay for Alien (1979). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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