IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE is a sci-fi B-movie potboiler, made on a limited budget and small scale. It's a desert-set adventure in which bumbling hero Richard Carlson is an astronomer who sees a meteorite strike and the weird craft that lies buried below ground. Nobody believes his reports of an alien invasion, but when locals begin acting strangely, it's time to for him to take action. The film is pure hokum and the squid-style alien, occasionally animated via nothing more than washing liquid bubbles, is ridiculous. But this was also a 3D picture and the effects are quite fun, which makes it a more palatable watch. The motives of the aliens themselves are treated in an interesting way with a real disinterest in the human race, a unique angle in an otherwise forgettable picture.
Review of It Came from Outer Space
