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An astronaut is killed on reentry to Earth, but his body is seeded with rapidly gestating aliens.An astronaut is killed on reentry to Earth, but his body is seeded with rapidly gestating aliens.An astronaut is killed on reentry to Earth, but his body is seeded with rapidly gestating aliens.
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- TriviaThe alien costume featured here was the same as the one used in another Roger Corman film, Teenage Cave Man (1958). This was done to save money, as Corman and his brother Gene Corman often tried to incorporate existing sets, costumes and other elements from previous films into new ones for financial savings. Screenwriter Martin Varno said the Corman brothers were so conscious of their spending that "'cheap' was the main word in their vocabulary". The monster costume scenes in "Teenage Caveman" and this film were shot within about two weeks of each other. The costume was modified slightly for this film. Ross Sturlin wore the costume for the scenes in both "Teenage Caveman" and this film. Flming was very difficult for Sturlin because it got extremely hot inside the costume during the exterior shots. John John M. Nickolaus Jr. was director of photography for the film, and Jack Bohrer was the production manager. Daniel Haller, who went on to become a film director himself, worked as art director on this film. He did much of the manual construction work on the set himself, and brought a trailer in to the sound stage so he could sleep there and between work sessions. Among the props he built was the rocket-ship, the frame, which was made of plywood that had been cut into circles, then covered with a plastic sheet and spray-painted to look metallic. Haller also created blood cells that the characters looked at under a microscope, and the baby aliens (which resembled seahorses) they looked at under a fluoroscope. Alexander Laszlo composed the music for the film. Almost the entire crew went on to work on Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) with the Corman brothers and Kowalski.
- GoofsA close-up of the bottom half of the creature reveals that its feet are actually shoes.
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Dr. Alex Wyman: A wounded animal that large isn't good!
- ConnectionsEdited from War of the Satellites (1958)
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Gulity Pleasure from B movie Hell
If you analyzed all of the elements and faults of this picture it would seem that there would be absolutely no reason for enjoying it but still I go back to it as late night comfort food again and again.It just has a bottom of the barrel we got no money but screw it sincerity to it that I have to admire and if you took away all the stale acting,looney dialogue and dire effects you can find a pretty good and original concept or two for a teen flick of it's time one of it's notions would crop up twenty some years or more for ALIEN.Pretty cool.If this movie had a script by Charles Griffith,Beverly Garland as one of the Femmes and had a much better critter than the left over Monster from Teen Age Cave Man than this would be more of a minor Corman classic like Not Of This Earth .Roger Corman executive produces for the company that his brother Gene briefly tried to maintain.Bernard Kowalski keeps it grim and moving faster than he did in Attack Of THe Giant Leeches. Give it a break. I bet the people slamming it even enjoyed it a little.
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- Jul 17, 2006
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- $68,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 2 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Night of the Blood Beast (1958) officially released in Canada in English?
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