Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

happytrigger-64-390517 Gene Fowler Jr was first an editor (for Fritz Lang and Samuel Fuller) and became an interesting B director in the 50's. He met the screenwriter Louis Vittes and worked together on several movies, Fowler thinking of the shooting and Vittes of the best dialogues for special stories. They first did a crime movie and a western for young Charles Bronson with some detailed psychology.Then, they go on with "I Married A Monster With Outer Space", much more adult than the previous fantastic Fowler's "I was A Teenage Werewolf". Fowler created the monsters and thought of the weakness that would destroy them : he imagined these tube-arteries that linked the face to the chest and let the dogs hang on to these and pull them off. Only two alien costumes were created which served for several aliens.Like the humanized doctor in "I Was A Teenage Werewolf", Fowler and Vittes also humanized the aliens of "I Married ...". Gene Fowler Jr : "The aliens were very sad people. After their women died, they travelled through the galaxy to find other women to perpetuate their race.They were desperate. What they were doing was honest and useful." (Filmfax N°10). The aliens theme invading the Earth for getting human appearance and couple to human women was an outrageous subject. The audience was also surprised by some very uncommon visual scenes with the aliens. Just forget the spaceship, because of a 125000 dollars budget for a 8 days shooting. The audience loved the movie which was scheduled with "The Blob", while Fowler wanted to play it with another movie he wanted to direct but complete mystery about it.Fowler's last movie is the western "The Oregon Trail", produced by Greek Spyro Skouras (Billie Wilder : "the only Greek tragedy I know is Spyro Skouras."), a terrible nightmare. We'll never know the best project with Vittes, "The Day The Adults Died", describing the world without adults. Fowler continued to direct for television, then returned to editing. When his close friend Fritz Lang was dying, Fowler stayed with him for his last days. When the Master died, Fowler called their old friends and drank to his memory.With some more budget, Gene Fowler Jr and his friend Louis Vittes could have been as great as Jack Arnold.

Paul Andrews I Married a Monster from Outer Space starts as Bill Farrell (Tom Tyron) drives home after a night out with his friends, Bill is due to marry his fiancé Marge (Gloria Talbot) the following day but is abducted & replaced by an alien creature that takes Bill's form & place. Bill & Marge marry as planned but Marge become suspicious of her new husband Bill, a year later(!) she decides to follow Bill one night & sees him turn into an alien & enter it's hidden spaceship in the woods. Shocked Marge tries to inform the authorities about the alien invaders but discovers that the most important men in town have all been replaced by alien doubles including the Chief of Police. Marge confronts Bill who admits that he is part of an alien race that is dying out & they have come to Earth to mate with women to save their race from extinction, Marge sets out to stop them & make a disbelieving world take notice of her...Produced & directed by Gene Fowler Jr. this Paramount Pictures production has one of the more memorable titles for a 50's sci-fi alien invasion film & while I wasn't expecting too much from it I did like it, it's not amazing but if your a fan of these old black and white 50's alien invasion flicks then you could do a lot worse than I Married a Monster from Outer Space. There's a bit more going on here than usual, there's the whole subtext about the communist threat which was so prevalent in films back then, the fears about marriage & the problems that can arise, the strength of human emotions & at only 77 minutes long it's pretty brisk & doesn't hang around. While the script isn't deep or has much substance it does try to touch a few ideas like paranoia & a stealthy invasion based on replacing people & fitting in as normal rather than an all guns blazing attack. The film has dated somewhat, a married couple sleeping in twins beds after a year of marriage yet are still together? Surely one of them would have expected a little bit of action after a year? Couples have divorced for less. The quaint small town paranoia feels old & the aliens don't seem to have any great plan, it's been a year & they haven't managed to get any ladies pregnant yet so why are they still hanging around? The script tries to paint the aliens as sympathetic, despite being ugly aliens in their true form when in human form they try to reason calmly & are presented as a desperate race on the verge of extinction although kidnapping men, replacing them & trying to get our women pregnant isn't the way they should have gone about things...The special effects here aren't that bad, the smoke effect that covers the men when they are being abducted is good while the alien monsters themselves look alright with a strange glow to them. I am not sure about the long dangling arms or the three fingers but they look OK for the time. Well shot with the odd creepy bit here & there the ending features some quite gory alien meltdowns as they are killed off & even some blood spurting. While watching I Married a Monster from Outer Space I realised that bachelor parties & the attitudes towards marriage sure have changed in the past fifty years!With a supposed budget of about $175,000 this was partly filmed at the ever popular Bronson Canyon in Los Angeles, surely one of the worlds most used film locations. The acting is alright if a little wooden as expected, nothing great but not terrible.I Married a Monster from Outer Space is a fun little 50's sci-fi horror about the importance of marriage the idea of conforming to society, it's outdated & silly but overall I quite liked it for what it is. Remade as I Married a Monster (1998) which is apparently terrible.

Sean Morrow The tight, intriguing story makes it easy to ignore the not very special effects and the cheesy title (actually, I'm very fond of the title). This is another one of those movies I saw a kid and have been wanting to see again for years. I'm very pleased to say it holds up well. Gene Fowler is the director and handles the assignment with a firm hand. The film stays remarkable on point with the one person knows the truth kind of paranoia parable popular at the time -- see "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". It's no wonder Fowler does such a fine job telling the story, he was the editor for couple of Samuel Fuller's westerns "Forty Guns" and "Run of the Arrow" in 1957 (which I co-incidentally watched the same week as this picture). Fowler's ability to convey the mounting tension of the situation show his editor's training. There's no coy is she or isn't she paranoid here; we know right off the bat she's married to a monster from outer space, but it's great fun to see her come to the same conclusion. One thing that really impressed me was the tremendous amount of boozing going on it the movie -- it was like a horror version of Mad Men. In fact, a key tip off that a person is really a monster that walks like a man is that he gives up the booze (aliens can't tolerate the stuff). This doesn't stop the cadre of monster conspirators from holding their little get together in a bar (and what a great bar it is, alcoholic bar tender, hot jazz, sleazy men and louse women). When the exciting conclusion comes, all is explained in a much more satisfactory manner than most shows provide and I for one felt a certain sympathy with the gruesome grooms.

mrb1980 If I had seen the little-known actors Gloria Talbott and Tom Tryon in a movie titled "I Married a Monster from Outer Space" in 1958, I very likely would not have gone to see it because of the title. However, to ignore this movie is cheating oneself, since it's a dark, creepy, and altogether enjoyable sci-fi about an alien invasion.Bill Ferrell (Tryon) is out drinking before his wedding day, and is overcome by a mysterious dark cloud. Now controlled by aliens, he marries Marge (Talbott) and is determined to populate the earth with alien babies. There's something wrong with the aliens though, and they can't breed with earth women. Soon many of the town's men are also controlled by the aliens, and Marge can't call, telegraph, or even leave town with the dreadful news. Eventually the local doctor (Ken Lynch) has the bright idea to recruit "real human men" among new dads at the local maternity ward, and the aliens are defeated in a pitched battle outside of town.This film has an abundance of wonderful vignettes: a local B-girl tries to pick up one of the aliens; a gangster (James Anderson) is lurking around the Ferrell's house and is eliminated by alien-controlled policemen; an alien-controlled man dies when he is given oxygen by paramedics after an accident; a local bartender punches Bill Ferrell on the jaw repeatedly with no effect; and of course the human men overcome the aliens in the climactic battle in a forest.The special effects are truly good for 1958, and Tryon--who usually had the acting range of a statue--is very convincing. I think Talbott gave the performance of her career, as the woman who is trapped with aliens and has no way out. This film was also the high water mark for character actor Alan Dexter, who convincingly plays a sinister alien. Highly recommended, despite the title.