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Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Just happened to come across this "gem" on FOX Movie channel, expecting another 50s SciFi/Cold War blend. I missed the first few minutes (the bit with the ex-wife in the lab) but now (after reading the summary and other reviews) her panic makes sense.Great surprise to see Moe Howard. I didn't see Paul Frees in the flesh (while he had it...), but did recognize his voice at Union Station. As an L.A. native, I'm always looking for scenes with 50s L.A. landmarks. (I didn't recognize the airport as the nascent LAX, though). The scene with Moe at the police station, using the plastic layovers to recreate the face was terrific, straight out of a DRAGNET-style episode.Sure, by 2010 standards it's hokey. The Special Effects are weak, the storyline is lame, and the ending a bit too contrived. But there are hundreds of movies being shown on the dozens of movie channels that are much worse than this genuine diamond. Hopefully more of you will catch it next time 'round.

I figure I saw this gem when I was about 11, back when I lived in Queens NY.My memories are similar to the other notations on this flic, except that I was too young to form an opinion about its artistic merits. My real memory was the term blood rust, and the memory of a scene where detectives were finding it in a boxcar. (Ok, its possible I mixed that one up with a scene from "Them". I remembered it as the b part running with This Island Earth, but it may well have been playing with the Fly, as others indicated. The long and this short of it was that this one bugged me, as I could until recently find no movies referenced to "blood Rust". None of the printed compendiums of Sci-Fi movies helped. A recent call for help on another web site finally gave me the Space Master title, which did the trick! A 45 year mystery solved!Now I need to find a copy!

Some films can actually affect a person's pyche for life and this little black and white 'B' sci-fi/horror flic certainly found a niche in my memory that has never left me. I saw this movie at the Rialto Theater in Loveland Colorado in late August 1958. I had just turned 13 years old and the very next day my mom and dad, myself and my 19 year old brother were leaving for California in our 1956 Mercury Monterey to go to Disneyland. This film was billed as the 'B' presentation of a double feature. The 'A' film of the evening was the now original true cult classic' The Fly ' starring the venerable horror meister Vincent Price. At the intermission between films (remember those?) I was so tickled by the closing shot of Price's head on the body of a fly trapped in a spider web screaming in that weird little voice "help me' that i ran to the concession stand with anickel to by Cracker Jax (yes, a nickel) and gleefully cried 'help me', help me' .Remember I was 13.... 'The Fly' did not frighten me at all. Little did I know...'Blood Rust' as the next feature was titled for that release has never left me...the V2 rocket launched from New Mexico with a camera pointed to the incredibly disappearing ground...the filter from the rocket with the odd granular spores being placed in petri dishes...then the Blood Rust spores growing in the bell lab bottle...releasing the puffs of spores as the fungus bubbled like thick slime pudding...the discovery that it fed on human blood and tissue creating uncontrolled growth... the gash on the scientist 's head caused by his wife throwing an ashtray in the divorce argument scene at the lab in the desert... his last desperate phone call for help...His arm and hand slowly sinking into the bubbling Blood Rust ...The wife, thinking the cops were after her for his death, cutting and dying her hair in a hotel only for the viewing audience to see the Blood Rust fungus growing out of the waste basket where she had thrown her locks...She was carrying IT!!...the DC6 pilots flying her home to Hawaii trying to control the aircraft as the fungus breaks out of her luggage and pushes out of the baggage compartment and 'grows' up over the passenger windows and finally over the pilots cockpit windshield...In every scene the hideous growth making a grotesque, slobbery, slime, BLUB BLUB sound. I had to walk home in the dark, across the railroad tracks through old man Jenkins scabrous apple orchard and down the long dirt road that ended at my family's farm house. I couldn't sleep. The well pump kept kicking on going BLUB BLUB BLUB. Now I know this film was just a grade d drive- in film but I could not get it out of my mind. It has something to do with the idea of having some parasitical growth covering you body and eventually your mouth and nose strangling you. But it was just a movie..Right? By the end of the first day of driving on our trip to California (we only made it to Grand Junction, this was before the Interstate system) which was the day after I had seen this movie my parents swore they would never let me see another 'monster' movie again. I was a sniveling, crying, mess. I hadn't slept and to top it all off we stayed in a motel that had another water pump that would kick on with a BLUB, BLUB, BLUB sound.The whole trip continued in this vein. For years afterwards my older brother( and we all know how older brothers can tease) could get a rise out of me by simply saying BLUB,BLUB. I would love to see this odd, quirky little film re-released. It has never been shown on tv to my knowledge. To this very day I cannot look at a pair of Mickey Mouse ears in the same way that I'm sure others do. My reaction is to think of that DC6, in the last shots of the film, making an emergency landing in Los Angeles and to see a little Blood Rust oozing off the runway toward a housing development in the distance....a distance that back in August of 1958 I thought included the Magic Kingdom.

When I was kid, I used to sometimes see stills or brief mentions of this film in science fiction movie books or in the pages of "monster" magazines. But for some strange reason this film never turned up on TV, even though other science fiction offerings made by Fox from the same period often did. No one I knew had seen it except for older people who saw it when it was first released in 1958 to theaters. Having seen it recently on video, I can tell you that SPACE MASTER X 7 is no "lost" classic, but its a not bad low budget drive in feature with a slightly unusual menace and director Edward Byrnes deserves credit for trying hard to make a serious (sometimes he tries to hard) adult science fiction thriller. Done in a semi-documentary style, Byrnes sometimes slows down the films pace but overall its not a bad job.One area of interest to film buffs is the films casting. We have Paul ("man of a thousands voices") Frees in a surprisingly large on screen role as a "heel" scientist who accidently unleashes the "blood rust". Of course the person often mentioned in this film is Moe Howard of the Three Stooges, in a rare character part as a cab driver who helps the feds track down a woman who was exposed to the deadly alien fungus. This film was made when the stooges career was in limbo; between the time Columbia dropped the stooges because it was no longer interested in making shorts, and the time before they boys returned to the screen for feature films. Director Byrnes began his film career directing 3 Stooges shorts, and was good friends with the boys, so it was he who probably got Moe a part in the picture.