Category: The Ruthless Horror Camp

As a right thinking American, you know the greatest threats to our way of life in the 1950s was the godless commies, and I state this with all the fear and loathing it engenders, Radiation. 

It is 1956!  World War II is passing into memory, the Korean War armistice is shaky, but Ike occupies the White House and Patton is dead (but Elvis lives, & John Lennon hasn’t met Paul McCartney yet),

Funny thing about bunny rabbits, they don’t scare in quite the same way as, say, roaches, rats, sharks, or frogs. Even giant rabbits

The inspiration for this It! The Terror from Beyond Space many be found in A. E. van Vogt’s story the Black Destroyer.  IT in-turn inspired Alien.

Sweet little old Mrs. Skinner (Ida Lupino), soft-spoken and dressed like a park ranger, has gone and done a terrible thing. Feeding toxic sludge to chickens. Chaos ensues.

Jason Crockett is a dick. Played by Ray Milland, only 27 years removed from the Oscar-winning The Lost Weekend, Crockett wastes away in his wheelchair,

The opening crawl – ominous, spare, and all-too-revealing of a film lacking the budget to show rather than tell – speaks to a developing horror about to befall a small Southern town

The story is predicated on the idea that an alien race from the Andromeda constellation has the technology for intergalactic space travel but has little or no understanding of genetics.