IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE / Universal International Pictures - 1953

It's Monster Redo Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. Time to update this title since we did it years ago, hit the refresh button, NOW! One thing about Universal Studios, they always took their horror and sci-fi very seriously, this was their first monster feature in the fifties with a huge budget of $800,000. The story's about an alien spaceship that makes an emergency landing in the Arizona desert, it crash lands near the home of writer and an amateur stargazer, John Putnam. John and his girlfriend witness the event, so, John decides to investigate...

Eegah!! sent over a great lil' soundclip for our enjoyment, sooooo, push the big red 'GO' button there by the neon ventilator, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our monsterous audio offering for... IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE!

This is stargazer John Putnam and his girl Ellen Fields, a local schoolteacher, they watch as an alien craft zooms across the horizon and crashes into a nearby cavern. Richard (THE MAGNETIC MONSTER) Carlson plays John, Barbara (WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE) Rush plays Ellen. For me, Richard Carlson was the perfect fifties sci-fi guy!

The viewer gets a sneak peek of the inside of the spacecraft and then the unique Xenomorph creature, which was created by the awesome Milicent Patrick. Milicent also designed the monster mask in ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, the Creature in CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON and the Mutant for THIS ISLAND EARTH, move over Paul Blaisdell!

Sexy Milicent Patrick with some of her pals...

John finds the spaceship in the cavern just before a landslide covers it entirely. The locals have trouble believing that John actually saw a ship from another world.

Electricians Frank and George are the first ones to be taken over by the aliens.

Frank's wife and George's girlfriend notice big changes in their personalities!

Hey, my last post had a space cadet in it too! This lil' creep just scared the crap out of Ellen, believe it or not!

Ellen's body is taken over next... I dunno, I think she's a lot sexier as an alien, I dig those eyebrows the most!

She lures John into a mine entrance, then, turns on the charm!

Back at home, John notices that he's had an unearthly visitor, there's a snailish glitter-like substance on the floor, also, some of his clothes are missing!

When he goes back to the mine he's met by alien Ellen, who then tries to kill him with her deadly ray gun! Ironically, she dies during the encounter.

John meets his double, the leader of the mission, they just need a little more time to replinish the power to the ship's space drive...

The locals have come to blow the place up with dynamite. John convinces the aliens to release their captives, and, that would buy them the time they need to power up for the launch as a gesture of good faith.

We'll end with the wise words of John Putnam ~ They'll be back!..

FIFTIES SCI-FI MOVIE MONSTERS ON ALIEN PLANETS

Last Monday I posted FIFTIES SCI-FI MOVIE EARTH INVADERS, so, today I have the Monsters on Alien Planets that we encountered there. When I decide to do one of these posts, I have no real idea how it will turn out until I make the list. With the Earth Invaders, there were 40 movies, with this post, there are only 12 movies! We were invaded over three times more than planets we explored with Monsters! So, check it out...

First up is ROCKETSHIP X-M from 1950, the Martians were messed up primitive mutants and some were blind. Something definitely went wrong on the Red Planet years ago...

Next is CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON from 1953, there was this giant cave spider that would love to strip that tasty flesh off your bones!

I remember seeing this photo of KING DINOSAUR from 1955 in FAMOUS MONSTERS back in the day. This movie is pretty whack but fun to watch for the over the top acting!

THIS ISLAND EARTH from 1955 has one of the finest weird monsters from the Fifties. I mean, wow, what a thrill it must have been to catch this great movie when it came out!

Then we have FIRE MAIDENS OF OUTER SPACE from 1956, it had this weirdo creature I think was known as The Dark One... All he could do is throw some rocks at you and I guess choke you if you got too close to him, wow!!

My all time favorite fifties creation is The ID Monster from FORBIDDEN PLANET in 1956. What a movie, besides that, there was Robby The Robot and those amazing sound effects!!

In IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE from 1958, Paul Blaisdell came up with this mighty Martian to terrorize the crew when they return to Earth in their spaceship...

MISSILE TO THE MOON from 1958 was a remake of CAT-WOMEN OF THE MOON, this time besides the giant spider, they threw in a couple of very cool Rock Monsters.

In QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE from 1958, the only monster was this giant spider reused from WORLD WITHOUT END. It looks so fakey when our hero holds on tight to the big thing to make it look like it has a hold of him!

A pile of terrific monsters appeared in THE ANGRY RED PLANET from 1959 including The Martian, the Bat Rat Spider and the giant killer Amoeba!

Also in 1959, these two bizarro monsters show up in BATTLE BEYOND THE SUN from 1959, they have to be some of the craziest creations of the Fifties!

The last movie in the post is for the Stooges' HAVE ROCKET WILL TRAVEL from 1959, it had lots of cool monsters to chase our guys around, making for a ton of laffs... Check in again on Wednesday as we keep chugging down the tracks, bringing you the goods!

SOME COOL MOVIE And TV MONSTER MODELS

I'm ending my month of posts with another look at some very cool monster models from films and TV... It's amazing how much time and talent was put into the creation of these beautiful pieces, WOW!!

First up is the wild looking FRANKENSTEIN monster from Edison's silent movie, the detail on this figure is just freaking amazing!!

Next we gots the exotic Xenomorph space creature from Universal Studio's IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE.

Check out this great model from MONSTER ON THE CAMPUS, that's a wild looking Neanderthal figure that includes the giant dragonfly and prehistoric fish that causes all the trouble! Saw this fun movie at the theater in 1958.

Eegah!! and I saw this crazy flick when when it came out, we absolutely loved THE MANSTER, it was 73 minutes of intense creepiness from beginning to end!!

We also got to see this incredible George Pal production at the theater in 1960, man, THE TIME MACHINE had it all, a great blend horror and science fiction!

I almost crapped myself when I came across this truly incredible model from THE CREEPING TERROR! Damn, the creature actually looks half way terrifying!! Nice piece...

Now we switch over to four excellent monsters from THE OUTER LIMITS! Here's a nice close up of one of "The Zanti Misfits" from the first season... Man, what kind of thing from Hell is that?! This episode stars the great Bruce Dern...

Then we have this mind boggling creature from "The Architects Of Fear" episode, starring Dungeon hero, Robert Culp!!

Check out this super weird creature from "The Mice" episode. Man, what were they smoking when they came up with this 'out there' thing?!!

We'll end with this fantastic creature from "The Invisible Enemy" starring Adam West. Wow, that's extra creepy!! So, Eegah!! will be here on Wednesday with our last post for January!