Watch It! The Terror from Beyond Space For Free

Excellent adaptation.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Just saw this movie on MGM CABLE Saw the original at the theater back then Amazing how they made movies then

Let me start by saying that this is one of the best science fiction movies of its time and it is certainly a reflection of the culture of the 50's. I say that as an observation of the the 50's and not as an opinion. There were good things about the era and some other things about the 50's that are not good. It is good that we have outgrown some of the elements and I don't think it is necessary to explain a lot of that.I lived in Southwest Arkansas at that time and one of the stations there, KTAL, had just changed its format and they would show a sci-fi movie in the late afternoon after we kids got home from school on a program called Kaptain TALltower. We never guessed they were only little longer than an hour so I guess they really padded it with commercials.I agree that this was a lot of the inspiration for the Alien franchise but I would sure like to see it remade as is. The writers had a lot of optimism that we would make it to Mars by 1973. We will get there but a little later than that.The tobacco companies scored big on their product placement in this one in that I think everyone on board smoked and every man had a pack of cigarettes in his pocket, see the outline. I wonder where the women kept theirs. I wonder if they have that issue today on the space station.As noted, regardless of their assigned duties, it appeared that the women got stuck with all of the kitchen duties. Today, everyone except the commanding office and the doctor would be performing kitchen duties or helping regardless of sex. Another thing of then that would not fly today is that the women would be shooting at the monster also instead of hiding behind the men. They would also be going below as the case required to try to get what was needed trying to take out the stowaway. In the scene where Van decides in his delirium to open the reactor door, if the women were there now they would not have tried to reason with him but would have picked up something and clubbed him with it or had him tied to the cot. Since they did not club him with something, the monster killed Bob because Bob was exposed when the monster busted out of the reactor chamber.I will finish this by saying this was a well done movie that has stood the test of time and the actors all showed in their acting and behavior that they were really part of The Greatest Generation of not giving up. We are losing them too fast now and will sure miss them when they are gone.

Lots of people have made the connection with the movie "Alien." It involves an accusation directed toward an astronaut who was the sole survivor of a journey into space. His fellow astronauts give him the cold shoulder and he is about to be strapped with a court martial. There are some good action sequences as an alien manages to get into a space ship and begin to murder the crew, much like the thing in alien. There is also an effort to drive the evil monster into a trap. While the special effects are rather limited and there are some serious sexual stereotypes that are affiliated with the 1950's, it still packs a bit of a wallop. If you are not too serious about high tech effects, you will get a kick out of it.

Here's a fun little low-budgeter from the US of A which is widely acknowledged by fans and critics alike as one of the films that inspired both the look and plot of ALIEN (the other being Mario Bava's PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES). Whilst in comparison, IT! seems a little creaky in a modern light, with the reliance on a single shot of a spaceship flying through space being repeated about twelve times throughout the movie, and the cheap-looking monster suit being hidden in shadows for much of the time, this still manages to work up a fair amount of tension and suspense. There's also some atmosphere in there too, thanks to those previously mentioned shadows.The film focuses on action throughout, with the first murder occurring at about twenty minutes in and then an almost constant battle between crew and monster as everything (bullets, grenades, gas, electricity) is tried to kill the beast but to no avail. The actors aren't so great, with the exception of dependable but wooden B-movie man Marshall Thompson (FIEND WITHOUT A FACE) who scores with the character of Carruthers, initially a suspected murderer but eventually the hero. The female characters are deeply dated, the rest of the male crew are either food or don't help much in the scheme of things.The film works around the low budget by redressing sets (one room is used as three different floors) and setting much of the action in the dark, where it looks better. Ray "Crash" Corrigan portrays the alien as a lumbering, violent monster which butchers people left, right and centre, and drags corpses around with it for some disturbing, unexplained reason. The film's highlight comes during an air vent episode (again utilised in ALIEN), in which the half-dead body of a victim is discovered - it's enough to give you the chills, even in the modern light.The few special effects that are used are fun, like the initial model showing the spaceship taking off from the surface of Mars, which is pretty impressive really (any previous action is explained in narration to cut down on costs) and a fun shot of two actors walking vertically down the side of the ship (thanks to magnetic boots) using the same tilted camera trick as in BATMAN. The music is used only sparingly to blare out in the shock sequences for added impact, while the black and white photography is crisp and clear. In addition, the film has a fast pace and a short running time (seventy minutes) which keep it watchable throughout, and the wealth of action means that its never boring. Whilst not a classic, IT! is a worthwhile oddity to be watched by any fans of ALIEN as an effective forerunner to that sci-fi classic.