Monster of the Day #3240

Updated on August 2, 2022 By Ken Begg 7 Comments

You know, we could probably do an entire T-Fest of “Astronauts Come Back from Space as a Monster” movies. Easily. Weird little micro-genre. Anyway, Incredible Melting Man, on Amazon Prime.

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  • Not very good and entirely too down beat for its own good (but, you know, Seventies Film, it was obligatory). Gimme Quatermass Xperiment any day over this.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    Watch it last weekend. Ah, look at the cute old couple. Kill them.

  • Let’s be honest, this is practically a serial number filed off, cheap-ass remake of *Quatermass* and certainly owes more to that than the oft cited *First Men in Space* that it is often said to resemble.

  • I will say the trailer for this f*cked me up for *years*. It was shown during the previews before either “Pete’s Dragon” or “The Wiz”. Either way I was probably no more than sic or so. I have *no* idea what the manager was thinking, but it was decades before I could even watch the big climactic scene in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” because melting people absolutely scared me sh*tless. Because that’s a realistic fear.

  • Gamera977

    Is ‘Quatermass I’ the only good treatment of the ‘astronaut returns as a monster’ trope? It’s the only one that comes to mind.

    Though doesn’t this one end with the monster as a puddle of goo a custodian sweeps up and deposits in the trash? That did get a chuckle from me.

  • Ken_Begg

    Well, it’s the best. I mean, Nigel Kneale script is hard to compete with.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    “First Man into Space” is pretty good, but no, it’s no Quatermass.