It's the future, 1973, and a rescue team is sent to fetch Col. Edward Carruthers (Marshall Thompson), the lone survivor of the first manned flight to Mars. Edward is accused of murdering his fellow crewmen. But Ed claims that the killer was a Martian monster.
Unintentionally funny low-budget 'Fifties horror effort. ("Mars is almost as big as Texas," one character thoughtfully muses at a point. "Maybe it's got monsters.")
One of the best sci-fi flicks of the '50s; the basis for 'Alien.'
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
November 25, 2002
A towering classic of 1950s sci-fi horror cheese. It's more fun, more memorable and certainly more influential than the handful of big-budget sci-fi movies of the era.
