we must remember that science fiction and horror films of the 50's were influenced by WWII AND....... THE BOMB. all monsters were coming from bomb test or atomic experiments. outer space was delivering monsters or machines bent on kicking are ass, they had atomic backgrounds, too. the atom had its heyday back then. after the Kennedy assination and the Viet Nam War, scifi took anothe turn again.
shareWhat the hell are you talking about?!! This movie was nothing more than a fairly decent B horror from the '50s. Nowhere was there a mention or hint of WWII or the Bomb. Don't let your paranoia overwork your imagination; just sit back and enjoy the show with all it's flaws and cheap effects.
shareyou missed the point and were born after all the worries of the world were an influence there was still a blacklist back then. I ENJOY THIS FILM, FLAWS AND ALL. i was stating that a lot of films dealt with radiation monsters. wwii was within a 10 year time frame of the great and cheesy scifi and horror films, and there were a lot of movie makers who still had that on their minds when they penned scripts. Paronia Crap, my as$. Did you bother to read my other post where i defended this film?
shareThey're influenced mostly by the atomic bomb, less by WW2, and also influenced by UFO sightings. WW2 in general was more influential with the films referred to as "Film Noir". This particular film seems less influenced by any of these, and more of a low budget cash-in attempt on the mid to late 1950s science-fiction horror drive-in fare. However, this one is definitely one of the better efforts.
shareThe producers told the writer, Jerome Bixby, to come up with something like the earlier THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD...space monster trying to attack people who are sheltered from a hostile enviroment. Bixby figured that a spaceship would be the worst place to be stranded on with a monster slowly working its way up from one deck to another.
Bixby also swears that he never read the science fiction short story BLACK DESTROYER which almost parallels the action and was written years earlier by A. E. Van Vogt.
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