It Came From Outer Space – ABC Film Challenge – Horror – I – It Came From Outer Space – Movie Review
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Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: Harry Essex (Screenplay)
Writer: Ray Bradbury (Story)
Cast
- Richard Carlson (Creature from the Black Lagoon)
- Barbara Rush (When Worlds Collide)
- Charles Drake (Harvey)
- Joe Sawyer (The Killing)
- Russell Johnson (Attack of the Crab Monsters)
Plot: A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely.
Runtime: 1 Hour 21 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: It Came From Outer Space starts when an object crash lands in the Arizona desert. Amateur astronomer John Putnam (Carlson) investigates with his girlfriend Ellen Fields (Rush). As the government starts to investigate the incident, John must persuade them something from outer space has arrived.
John must prove that an alien force has arrived on Earth and is taking over the bodies of his friends and the locals. Whoever, the more he investigates, he gets caught up in the middle of a bigger conspiracy going on.
Verdict on It Came From Outer Space
It Came From Outer Space continues the 1950s era of exploring what could come from outer space. It shows the paranoia created when an unknown visitor arrives. This sees one man needing to prove what has arrived while other people are looking to destroy them.
It feels perfect for the era of movies, getting everything, it needs to correct. This makes us feel like we are in the paranoia era of 1950s America and how quick to react military would have. Unlike many others of the era, we don’t get a big monster involved, instead, we see camera tricks being used to conduct everything we see.
Final Thoughts – It Came From Outer Space is yet another perfect era movie, highlighting the paranoia aliens created in America.
