It! The Terror from Beyond Space
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| Original title | It! The Terror from Beyond Space |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 69 minutes |
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| Director | Edward L. Cahn |
| script | Jerome Bixby |
| production | Robert E. Kent |
| music | Paul Sawtell |
| camera | Kenneth Peach |
| cut | Grant Whytock |
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It! The Terror from Beyond Space is an American science fiction film from 1958. Other showing titles include Mars - dödsplaneten ( Sweden ) and A Ameaça da Outro Mundo ( Brazil ). The film was neither shown nor broadcast on television in West Germany . The thing from another world was a model for the production . It! himself is in turn considered a role model for Alien - The uncanny creature from a strange world .
action
1973. At a press conference , the space agency announced that the second Mars expedition is about to fly back. By radio, she informed Earth that she had placed the only survivor of the first expedition, Colonel Ed Carruthers, under arrest , as he was strongly suspected of killing the other members of the expedition.
While the crew of the second expedition is preparing their spaceship on Mars for the start of the return flight, a misshapen humanoid creature, of which only the shadow is visible , penetrates the vehicle through an open hatch and hides in one of the cargo holds.
After the start, Carruthers tried several times to convince the crew members, especially the commander Van Heusen, of his innocence. The expedition was attacked by an unknown living being during a sand storm. The defense had also been shot. One of the bullets apparently accidentally hit one of the expedition members in the head. When Carruthers arrived alone on the ship, he waited in vain for any other survivors of the expedition. But Van Heusen is not convinced by Carruthers' account of the events and orders that Carruthers must never move alone in the ship, but must always be accompanied by a crew member.
Shortly after take-off, Carruthers heard a scream that was not noticed by the other crew members. In fact, the intruder killed the astronaut Kienholz. Since Carruthers was never unobserved due to Van Heusen's order, it is clear that the commander of the first expedition cannot be responsible for the astronaut's disappearance. When the ship is searched, Kienholz is found. An examination of his body reveals that all body fluids such as blood, water or bone marrow are missing.
In the further search for the Martian , Van Heusen is wounded and urgently needs a blood infusion. The use of firearms and tear gas against the stranger turns out to be pointless. To get to the blood reserves, Carruthers and another astronaut in space suits go to a storage depot outside the ship and meet the Martian again. Here it turns out that he is also immune to electricity , but they still manage to return with the blood reserves. Van Heusen, who in the meantime has become mentally ill due to his injury, removes the protective shield while the Martian is in the reactor room, but even the released radioactive radiation does not stop the Martian.
Since he is dependent on liquid, but this cannot be found in the storage rooms, he goes to the ship's control room, where the remaining survivors have gathered. In the meantime they have realized that the Martian is also an oxygen breather . Then all of the survivors get into their spacesuits. When the Martian enters the headquarters, Van Heusen opens the interior and exterior hatches of the headquarters at the same time. Although the commander is killed by the Martian, the Martian dies himself in the resulting vacuum . The realization of the second Mars expedition is that a return to Mars is pointless: "... another name for Mars is death".
criticism
After Bill Warren , It! a cheap production, but with a well thought-out plot that was implemented with routine craftsmanship.
Lore
The film was released on both DVD and Blu-ray in 2015 .
literature
- Bill Warren: Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties , 2 Vols. ( Volume 1 AK , Volume 2 LZ ), McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4766-6618-1 .