It Came from Outer Space

Classic 50's 3-D sci-fi cheese, with all the dated special effects and Cold War/atomic/space-age anxieties you can ask for. Despite the film's dated style and sensibilities, the movie still remains more than watchable enough today.

Campy goodness that only 3D glasses, nuclear anxiety and sexual repression can bring.

Watched in 2D which probably was not the preferred format. Plot really dragged after the reveal of the aliens taking human form. Fav scene: final monologue.

Quite an interesting sci-fi B movie with strong ideas and a solid pace. It is a little dated in style, and the acting isn't the best, but mostly enjoyable.

"Did you know, Putnam, more people are murdered at ninety-two degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature? [...] Over ninety two, it's too hot to move. But just ninety-two, people get irritable."

The obvious 3-D scenes are irritating (both in 3-D and not), but the film has a great black-and-white, noir atmosphere, and is scary when it is most like "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers": showing us that aliens are the most terrifying when they pretend to be human beings.

take your darn jacket off in that desert

Surprisingly well-made and -scripted for its situation, featuring some actually pretty creepy special effects and a creaky but still honest central conflict of understanding vs fear.

Not quite as bad as I remember. A kind of "friendly" take on the bodysnatchers concept (although it does predate the film by 3 years). It's a little pretentious and often quite dull, but there are moments of both laugh-out-loud ridiculousness and scenes of eeriness. Despite how dated it is, Jack Arnold generally brings a little more flair to what would normally be a pretty average B-flick. Nothing of his tops The Incredible Shrinking Man, however.

Cheesy, and not quite in a charming way. It just didn't compel me that much.

Fantastic. Striking images, great effects, and socially progressive to boot.

Is this the gold standard of 50's science fiction theremin playing?

Jack Arnold #1

Dull as dust

First things first, this isn't a good movie, but it is a fun movie. Pure 50s cheese. It Came from Outer Space is well-paced, has decent special effects used sparingly, made me laugh out loud multiple times -- intentionally and unintentionally -- and was all around an entertaining B-movie. I wish I watched this with my best gal back in the drive-in. On a more critical note, the movie is super white and I think the town only has three women in it who are all married, white, and straight.

73.500

Veio do Espaço estreava há 70 anos nos EUA. Nessa revisão fiquei mais intrigada com o percurso dos aliens, o comum nos anos 50 eram as Sci-fis reverberarem a ameaça comunista, mas aqui eles não são vilões, tem a pegada Vampiros de Almas, mas numa vibe neutra, acho que essa característica vem do Bradbury. Box Versátil Clássicos Sci-fi Volume 1.

I find all sci-fi flicks from the 50's terribly dated, and this one is far from exception. That alien vision thingy really got on my nerves. Story might be an interesting liberal propaganda, about close-minded people being afraid and destroying everything that they don't understand, but the presentation of it just doesn't cut for me.

"The hokey "xenomorphs" would egregiously emphasize the film's subtle indictment of human prejudice." - Ed Gonzalez

Not bad.

A bit underrated, this is actually one of the few good sci-fi films of the 50s, a decade that spawned a lot of cheap crap in this genre.