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It! The Terror From Beyond Space Year Of Release: 1958 Running Time: 69 minutesDirected By: Edward L. Cahn Writing Credits: Jerome Bixby Starring: Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, Kim Spalding, Ann Doran, Dabbs Greer, Paul Langton, Robert BiceAlternate Titles: It! The Vampire from Beyond Space (1958) and The Terror from Beyond Space (1958).PLOT DESCRIPTION One of the best of the medium-budgeted science fiction flicks of the 1950s, It! The Terror from Beyond Space is set in "the future" (1964, to be exact). An earth spaceship returns from a Mars expedition carrying a cargo of dead crew members. The sole survivor, Col Ed Carruthers (Marshall Thompson) is accused of murdering his fellow crewmen. But Ed claims that the killer was a Martian monster, and hopes to prove his assertions by signing up for a second journey to the Red Planet. Before long, the crew members of this second expedition are being systematically killed off, and it looks as though Ed is up to his old tricks. As it turns out, however, Ed was telling the truth: there is a monster on board, the savage descendant of the once-mighty Martian civilization. The monster stays alive by absorbing the vital body fluids of its victims-and there seems to be no way to stop this parasitic creature! If the plot of It! The Terror from Beyond Space seems vaguely familiar, it is because it was one of the primary inspirations for the 1979 sci-fi classic Alien. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Tagline 1: It breathes, it hunts…It Kills! Tagline 2: IT! ... Reaches through space! ... Scoops up men and women! ... Gorges on blood! Tagline 3: The revelation shocker of things to come! Tagline 4: $50,000 by a world renowned insurance company to the first person who can prove that "It" is not on Mars now
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