The Incredible Melting Man
1977 Directed by William Sachs
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The First New Horror Creature
An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.
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I watched this years ago back in my teens and i loved it. I couldn't get over seeing this guy melting away in front of your very eyes.I was glued to the screen. Re-watching it today and i really found it hard to focus on any of it. The FX are incredible when you consider when it was made and more importantly by whom. This was a early gig for legendary make-up artist Rick Baker. Apart from the make-up,there was very little to engage me this time round. It was very slow and tedious to sit through.
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Awesome creature feature.
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Projected in 35mm as part of Exhumed Film's 24-Hour Horror Fest. Only a partial watch because I slept through most of it.
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I saw this at the movies when it was released, and thought it was terrific .. it certainly has a charm all of its own, and the gore effects are pretty good for 1977 .. the acting, not so much!
My DVD is from the UK, (I think it's pretty rare), but I'd love to see it cleaned up for Blu-ray. -
Had superb fx for its time,somewhat dated now but still a great watch.Not the best acting around i have to say but what the hell,its a horror movie and i love it.
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Entertainingly bad SciFi/Horror. Low on plot and budget but helped by Rick Baker's gory makeup SFX. 6/10.
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This film is god awful, but I'm rating it higher than it deserves for the make up effects alone by Rick Baker, who could have been the film's saving grace had there been anything worth saving. I read somewhere that this was originally directed as a horror comedy satire on sci fi films of the 50's and it's a shame that the idiot producers and whoever else was in charge forced the crew to reshoot it as dramatic because it just does not work. It basically went from being a tongue and cheek homage to Ed Wood's b-movies of the 50's to being in the same caliber of bad.
The "drama" just consists of the monster shuffling around scaring and…
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Rarely do I watch anything covered by MST3K without the robots because most of the time they're no good. Unfortunately, The Incredible Melting Man is also no good without riffing. The only thing the uncut version offers is more gore and Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith's breasts. The effects are pretty excellent, but they are used in the service of a poor ripoff of The Quatermass Experiment with a leading man who you'd like to see get killed as quick as possible. Unless there's a silouhette of a man and two robots in the corner of the screen, stay away.
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Guessed the date: my 1st proper X -rated Horror film on the big screen., thanks ' Sis'
I really need to see it again to rate properly
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I watched this years ago back in my teens and i loved it. I couldn't get over seeing this guy melting away in front of your very eyes.I was glued to the screen. Re-watching it today and i really found it hard to focus on any of it. The FX are incredible when you consider when it was made and more importantly by whom. This was a early gig for legendary make-up artist Rick Baker. Apart from the make-up,there was very little to engage me this time round. It was very slow and tedious to sit through.