Wednesday, 8 August 2012

Monsters are from Venus

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

Directed by Nathan H. Juran this film stars William Hopper, Joan Taylor and Frank Puglia. An American space ship returning from Venus crashes in the sea off Sicily and a creature escapes from the rocket.

Science was clearly thrown completely out of the window for this film and the plot is pretty much silly bordering on ridiculous. The special effects are provided by legendary stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen and actually do not age as badly as you would have thought even though they are fairly obvious. As a B-movie science fiction piece this film is not too bad for something of it's era but to modern viewers it is pretty terrible.

2/5

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