Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Lawbolisted Powerful

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

DeepFriedJello Hokey, lame, somewhat suspenseful, slightly scary, with odd science, just like most 3rd rate sci-fi in the 50's. This was scheduled to fill a two hour time slot on TV, but there were sooo many commercials, then I noticed this was only a 69 minute film. If you took all the good parts and throw out the lame parts, it would be a good 20 minutes. No action of events on Mars, only on the spaceship and at a lame news conference on Earth. The spaceship is quite the deal. All the comforts of home: a good gravity system, separate sleeping quarters for all, smoking allowed, made out of fantastic metal that even 6 grenades barely dent, abundant oxygen, a ride so smooth that items don't need to be secured in any fashion. The Martian seems modeled off the creature from the Black Lagoon, only more raggedy. A rollicking good time. Must see, if you want.

garylampkin **No Spoilers**I'm old enough to remember the drive-in triple features so these creature features are a part of my nostalgic memory. It! Terror From Beyond Space is one I missed on the drive-in and TV rerun circuits, and based on all the reviewers who enjoyed it as a youngster, It! is one I would have liked to seen back in the day as a ten year old. As for seeing this for the first time as an adult some 40 years after it was made and again the other day, I'm sorry to say It! didn't do too much to impress me. The only reason I gave It! a 6 is because Ridley Scott(one of my fav directors) apparently liked It! I'll just mention a few distractions that make It! forgettable compared to say, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" or another rubber monster movie, "It! Came From Beneath the Sea", are the poor quality: acting, script, plot, sound, and special effects on par with Buck Rogers. Just consider the obtuse title, and that should be a clue to the rest of the plot, and overall quality. Even in Hollywood in the 50's when B movies were the thing, trying to place a credible story "beyond space" is just too much for my logical mind. It! Does raise one burning question in my mind, if the actor playing It! was too big for the rubber suit so much so a cut-out was made in the suit for his chin to poke out what happened at the level of more critical anatomy? Maybe that's why It! was never shown to us full frontal.

utgard14 The second manned mission to Mars arrives to pick up the sole survivor of the first mission. He's believed to have murdered the rest of the crew, so they're supposed to take him back to Earth. But the alien creature that is really responsible for the deaths has snuck aboard their ship for the return voyage and intends to do the same to this crew that it did to the last.Exciting sci-fi flick from the Golden Age. It's probably more talked-about than most B sci-fi films from the '50s due to its influence on the later classic Alien. This isn't on par with The Day the Earth Stood Still or The Thing from Another World, no, but it's certainly above average for the period. It's well-paced and suspenseful, making good use of its short runtime. It's also full of wonderfully quaint bits like the women astronauts serving the male astronauts coffee or the astronauts having grenades and such on the ship, as well as the charmingly old-fashioned special effects and sets. The cast is nice; no standouts really but all solid. That's Ray 'Crash' Corrigan in the alien suit in his last film. The script and direction are good. The evocative score is a major plus, too. It's a fun movie from start to finish. If you like classic sci-fi from the '50s you'll love it. If you're one of those "nothing good happened before I was born" types, don't bother.

classicsoncall Fans of low budget sets, wild predictions of what the future world might look like, and cheesy monsters in rubber suits will definitely get a kick out of "It! The Terror from Beyond Space". I mean seriously, there's even an exclamation point in the title, it's GOT to be good!I could go any number of ways here but I think it's best to point out all the goofy stuff that shows up in the writing and direction here, everything's a blast. Like the character of Colonel Edward Carruthers (Marshall Thompson), commander of the first failed mission to Mars because his entire crew wound up dead and he's accused of murdering them all! Really?!?! Why not then just give him free reign of the ship and not bother restraining him on the flight back to Earth to stand trial. Good plan.Now I'm not sure what the pre-flight check list for supplies on board might have looked like, but who do you suppose checked off a box of grenades and a bazooka? What?!?! I'll have to check in with NASA to see what they have to say about it, but that certainly sounds like a recipe for disaster, doesn't it? What might have been even more comical at one point was when one of the crew members stated that using gas against the monster on board would only be used as a last resort, and then they go right ahead and use it! Well it shouldn't surprise anyone who grew up in the Fifties to see scientists smoking on board a space ship, heck, doctors smoked in operating rooms back then, so no big deal. No more bizarre though then watching those two crew members walk down the outside hull of the ship flying through space while the stars remained stationary. You know, after a while, all this stuff could give science a bad name.But the best for this long time fan of geeky sci-fi, horror and B Westerns was learning the identity of the man in the monster suit. Ray Corrigan appeared in dozens of oaters but gained dubious notoriety in the Forties for appearing in a gorilla suit in titles like "The Ape", "Nabonga", "White Pongo" and "Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla". The monster outfit for this film was actually made for a physically smaller actor, so when a casting change gave the job to Corrigan, he wound up with his chin where the lips were, and couldn't see out of the eye holes. Ever the trooper and with a budget that didn't allow for a costume do-over, Corrigan pulled out all the stops to make 'It!' work. Who knows, maybe that's where the exclamation point came from.