{"id":28951,"date":"2022-02-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28951"},"modified":"2022-02-07T17:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T22:00:18","slug":"it-the-terror-from-beyond-space-1958-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28951","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It! The Terror From Beyond Space&#8221; (1958) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z020822zview_itterrorbeyondspace.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"771\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>It! The Terror From Beyond Space<\/strong><\/em> (1958)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Edward L. Cahn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Screenplay:\u00a0<strong> Jerome Bixby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Marshall Thompson, Dabbs Greer\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Ray Corrigan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tagline:<em>\u00a0 It Breathes. It Hunts. It Kills!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A rescue team is returning to Earth from Mars.\u00a0 With them is Col. Edward Carruthers, the sole survivor of the first Mars landing.\u00a0 Carruthers claims that his crew was killed by an alien life form.\u00a0 Most of the rescue team believes that Carruthers killed his crew to insure he would have enough food and water to last until help arrived.\u00a0 That all changes when crew members turn up brutally murdered and it is discovered the alien is on the ship!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;re a fan of low budget, 1950s scifi-horror, then you&#8217;ll have a blast with<em> It! The Terror From Beyond Space<\/em>.\u00a0 What it (<em>It!<\/em>) lacks in special effects it (<em>It!<\/em>) makes up with an excellent fast-paced story and a claustrophobic setting.\u00a0 Dan O&#8217;Bannon is said to have used <em>It! The Terror From Beyond Space<\/em> as the jumping off point for his <em>Alien<\/em> (1979) screenplay.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve watched both films, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll agree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I applaud Jerome Bixby and his crew&#8217;s ability to make the most of the limited budgets\/sets.\u00a0 A perfect example is when they received the alien suit, the mask didn&#8217;t correctly fit the actor (Ray Corrigan) playing the monster.\u00a0 They couldn&#8217;t afford to have another mask made and Corrigan&#8217;s chin stuck out the mouth hole!\u00a0 The solution was to paint his chin to look like the monster&#8217;s tongue!\u00a0 Roger Corman would have approved!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z020822zview_itterrorbeyondspace3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>It! The Terror From Beyond Space<\/em> isn&#8217;t a great movie, but is a great example of the genre and a lot of fun.\u00a0 I rate it 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z020822zview_itterrorbeyondspace2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958) Director:\u00a0 Edward L. 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