I Married a Monster from Outer Space
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | I Married a Monster from Outer Space |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gene Fowler Junior |
| script | Louis Vittes |
| production | Gene Fowler Junior |
| camera | Haskell Boggs |
| cut | George Tomasini |
| occupation | |
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I Married a Monster from Outer Space is in black and white twisted, American science fiction film from the year 1958 . Directed by Gene Fowler junior .
The film tells of the newly wed Marge Farrell, who notices a strange change in her husband Bill shortly after the wedding: he loses all emotional ties to his wife and adopts completely different habits. She soon finds out that Bill is not the only man in town who has turned into a stranger.
action
Shortly after their wedding, Marge Farrell notices that her husband, Bill, is acting strange. He shows no emotional connection to his wife, other people or animals. She is also concerned that she will not get pregnant. She soon realizes that the husbands in her circle of acquaintances are also acting unfamiliar. One night she follows Bill on a walk and realizes that he is really an alien: In the forest, Bill takes on an inhuman form and disappears inside a spaceship. He later tells her that all the women on his home planet have died. In order to save their race from extinction, he and his companions slip into the bodies of earthly men in order to reproduce. Marge wants to warn the other residents of the city, but too many men have already been "replaced", including the local police chief. Her family doctor believes her and puts together a search party to track down the invaders in their hiding place. Bullets cannot harm the aliens, but they are defenseless against the shepherds carried by the men, whose attack they all fall victim to. In the spaceship the men find the abductees who are still alive and whose bodies have been duplicated, including Bill. Spaceships are taking off across the globe to seek new refuge.
background
I Married a Monster from Outer Space was produced by Paramount Pictures . Shooting ended in May 1958, the film premiered in Los Angeles on September 10 and opened in American cinemas in October. In Germany the film was not shown.
Reviews
Because of its exploitative title, I Married a Monster from Outer Space has long been ignored by critics and film historians, but has gained the favor of some reviewers in recent years. Danny Peary described him in Cult Movies as an “intelligent, atmospheric and subtle science fiction thriller ”, Tom Milne from Time Out magazine discovered “good acting, impressively atmospheric camera work and an exciting finale”, and Leonard Maltin described him as “ successful preparation of Invasion of the Body Snatchers ”with“ some beautiful, scary moments ”.
Subject
The Aurum Film Encyclopedia found that "although the film was a product of the Cold War , in retrospect its commentary on the relationship between the sexes seems more interesting and disturbing". The suggestion of a subtext of "sexual fear feeling" by Tom Milne was emphasized even more by Georg Seeßlen . Seeßlen drew a direct connection between I Married a Monster from Outer Space and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) and the “ Black Series ”: “The mistrust between men and women, a theme that has been taken up again and again since the films in the 'Black Series' Films, [...] makes marriage appear as an inescapable trap in which one of the two must die [...] "
DVD release
In 2004 , Paramount released the film on DVD in the USA . Unlike the 1998 VHS version that an open matte - full-screen format 1.33: 1 showed that DVD reduced the visible image to the current 16: 9 TV's format (1.78: 1). The Internet Movie Database lists 1.85: 1 widescreen as the originally intended aspect ratio.
The L'Atelier 13 label released a DVD for the Spanish market under the title Me casé con un monstruo del espacio exterior .
A German DVD release is still pending.
Web links
- I Married a Monster from Outer Space in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- I Married a Monster from Outer Space at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- I Married a Monster from Outer Space on Turner Classic Movies
Individual evidence
- ↑ I Married a Monster from Outer Space ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from the Directory of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , accessed June 5, 2012.
- ^ I Married a Monster from Outer Space on Turner Classic Movies, accessed March 28, 2012.
- ^ I Married a Monster from Outer Space in the Internet Movie Database .
- ^ Danny Peary: Cult Movies , Dell Publishing, New York, 1981.
- ^ "[...] an intelligent, atmospheric, subtly made sci-fi thriller [...]" - Danny Peary: Cult Movies , Dell Publishing, New York, 1981
- ↑ "[...] good performances, strikingly moody camerawork, a genuinely exciting climax [...]" - Time Out Film Guide, Seventh Edition 1999 , Penguin, London, 1998.
- ^ "[…] Pretty good little rehash of Invasion of the Body Snatchers […] some nice, creepy moments […]" - Leonard Maltin's 2008 Movie Guide , Signet / New American Library, New York, 2007.
- ↑ "[...] while the film was clearly fueled by the Cold War mentality of the fifties, in retrospect it is its sexual politics that are more interesting, and disturbing." - Phil Hardy (Ed.): The Aurum Film Encyclopedia - Science Fiction , Aurum Press, London, 1991.
- ^ "Sexual angst" - Time Out Film Guide, Seventh Edition 1999 , Penguin, London, 1998.
- ^ Georg Seeßlen: Cinema of the Utopian. History and mythology of science fiction films , Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg, 1980.
- ↑ Technical details on IMDB.com
