Review of It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) by Russell G — 05 Oct 2009

A entertaining but completely unrealistic scifi film that's way more fi than sci. Marshall Thompson plays the sole survivior of the first Mars expedition who is immediately accused of murdering the other members of his expedition when being brought back to earth by the second Mars expedition. Instead they discover its the work of a Martian vampire--an alien that drains all the blood and fluids from a human's body. How this creature survived before humans showed up is not explained. The astronauts fight the monster on board ship using guns and grenades with no worries about blowing any holes in their ship. They smoke in the spaceship and don't seem to know there's no gravity in outer space.

All this adds up to a pretty ridiculous film that's fun to watch if you're in just the right mood.