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Stars:
Tom Tryon and Gloria Talbott
Writer:
Louis Vittes
Director:
Gene Fowler, Jr.
Feature
length: 77 minutes
Languages:
English Monaural Sound
Subtitles:
English Captions and Closed Captions
Packaging:
Amaray Keep Case
Chapter Stops: 12
Sound: Monaural
Sound
Year of Theatrical
Release: 1958/DVD Release: 2004
Theatrical
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Home Video
Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment
MPAA Rating: Not
Rated
Reviewer: Mark A.
Rivera
The title “I
Married A Monster From Outer Space” sounds like a humorous gift card one might
find in some holiday greetings shop, but in the 1950s there were plenty of films
that proclaimed “I Was This” or “I Did That.” “I Married A Monster
From Outer Space” is the combined product of the late great 1950s drive-in
monster movie and good old 1950s Cold War paranoia. An alien race is kidnapping
and substituting human males to propagate a new hybrid species through
conception with a human woman. When a young newlywed wife (Gloria Talbott)
discovers her husband (Tom Tryon) has been replaced with one of the alien
impostors, she crusades to warn the locale authorities lest every man become the
vessel for this invading extraterrestrial species.
For a 1950s
B-movie, “I Married A Monster From Outer Space” has a lot going for it.
First of all the design of the aliens themselves doesn’t look too bad. They
are a step away from the typical bug eyed big brained creature and look rather
exotic with strange appendages that direct the flow of blood from the body to
the head the way our jugular vein pumps blood up from the heart to the head.
There are a few humorous scenes too with the aliens in human guise sharing their
experience of what it is like to one of us. As can be expected, some seem to
enjoy the human form more than others. The aliens are also not evil so much as
they are desperate. I actually felt a bit of sympathy for them at the end. They
are trying to save their race and while their methods are not exactly
comforting, given the xenophobia inherent to human beings, I cannot state that
if a ship landed on Earth and one of these creatures walked out and asked if
they could collect some genetic material that we as a species would be all that
willing to comply with the request.
The effects are
not too shabby for a B-flick either. In particular, the cloud like effect that
appears when the aliens take a human male looks pretty good on screen. The
contrivances and silliness of the story are more than obvious, but as a piece of
good old 1950s sci-fi, I think “I Married A Monster From Outer Space” is
definitely above average and worth adding to anyone’s drive-in movie
collection on DVD. Paramount Home Entertainment has done a great job with the
presentation with a solid 16 by 9 enhanced (1.85:1) widescreen presentation and
a clear English Monaural Soundtrack. English Captions and Closed Captions for
the hearing impaired are encoded onto the disc as an option too. The menus are
standard interactive still frames that are easy to navigate.
“I Married A
Monster From Outer Space” will debut on DVD-Video on Tuesday, September 14,
2004 at retailers on and offline from Paramount Home Entertainment.
© Copyright 2004
By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.
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