It! The Terror from Beyond Space Movie Review

Sole survivor of a Mars expedition is arrested for the mass slaughter of his colleagues. As he protests his innocence, the real culprit, a big, hungry Martian, stows away aboard the Earth-bound rocket and begins killing crew members en route. An obvious inspiration for Ridley Scott's Alien, though suspense here is more claustrophobic, as the brute pounds its way through hatch after hatch, backing the desperate survivors up into the nose cone.

Jerome Bixby's commendably sober script ends with the warning “Another name for Mars is Death!,” and Paul Blaisdell contributed a fearsome lizard man costume. Tape includes the original theatrical trailer (“See IT! Don't miss IT!”). AKA: It! The Vampire from Beyond Space.

1958 68m/B Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, Kim Spalding, Ann Doran, Dabbs Greer, Paul Langton, Ray Corrigan, Robert Bice; D: Edward L. Cahn; W: Jerome Bixby; C: Kenneth Peach Sr. VHS, Beta MGM, MLB