
John Putnam is a writer and an amateur stargazer with a new home out in the beautiful Arizona desert, which he enjoys with Ellen Fields, his girlfriend and a local schoolteacher. John is not trusted by the people of the small town near where he lives, certainly not by Sheriff Matt Warren, who feels protective of Ellen, and perhaps something more. One night, John and Ellen see a meteorite crash in the desert. John drags his friend, Pete, out of bed to take him over to the cras... (Full plot summary below)
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John Putnam is a writer and an amateur stargazer with a new home out in the beautiful Arizona desert, which he enjoys with Ellen Fields, his girlfriend and a local schoolteacher. John is not trusted by the people of the small town near where he lives, certainly not by Sheriff Matt Warren, who feels protective of Ellen, and perhaps something more. One night, John and Ellen see a meteorite crash in the desert. John drags his friend, Pete, out of bed to take him over to the crash site in his helicopter. Once there, John climbs down into the crater. Unfortunately, he does so alone, as Pete and Ellen wait for him. John is the only one who sees the spaceship before a landslide covers it. And John is the only one who catches a glimpse of the hideous thing inside. At first John's story seems mad, until some of the townsfolk begin acting strange - as if they aren't really who they seem to be.
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| Suite101.comRob HumanickIf anything, a modern vantage point reaffirms how devastatingly the film hits the nail on the head. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezThe hokey "xenomorphs" would egregiously emphasize the film's subtle indictment of human prejudice. |
| Sci-Fi Movie PageJames O'EhleyDespite the lurid title and the involvement of several genre regulars, It Came from Outer Space is hardly a typical 'Fifties sci-fi movie. |
| New TimesLuke Y. ThompsonSurprisingly good '50s alien invasion flick with giant eyeballs -- maintains its charm despite the lack of 3-D effects on most video copies. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawSerling observed that for as lovely as Bradbury was to read, his prose proved nearly impossible to say. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullWhile It Came from Outer Space's theme is a refreshing change of pace from the doomsaying brethren of its era, its appearance is not. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaConta com uma temática rica que, ao contrário de boa parte de seus contemporâneos, usa os alienígenas não como metáfora para a ameaça comunista, mas para condenar o preconceito. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum[A] scary black-and-white SF effort from 1953. |
| User ReviewSimon DRichard Carlson in another one of my all time fave films. It just works on every level for me. The best scripted 50's sci-fi classic written by Ray Bradbury. |
| User ReviewMichael PAn almost archetypal 50's sci-fi movie, the first collaboration between Universal Studios producer Willam Alland and director Jack Arnold. In a small desert town, a meteor falls on the site of an abandoned mine. The local intellectual swears that he saw a spaceship at the bottom of the pit left by the "meteor", but no one believes him. Before long, townsfolk are disappearing, weird things are happening, and the local sheriff figures maybe there is something to this crazy talk after all. |