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An astronaut is transformed into a murderous gelatinous mass after returning from an ill-fated space voyage.An astronaut is transformed into a murderous gelatinous mass after returning from an ill-fated space voyage.An astronaut is transformed into a murderous gelatinous mass after returning from an ill-fated space voyage.
Cheryl Smith
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- (as Rainbeaux Smith)
Samuel W. Gelfman
- Fisherman
- (as Sam Gelfman)
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- TriviaTo achieve the gruesome Melting Man monster, makeup effects artist Rick Baker fashioned a slightly over sized skull-shaped helmet for actor Alex Rebar to wear. The piece was painted flesh tone and then was cover by a gooey concoction of syrup and paint. The drippy substance would have to be re-applied for every take of the Melting Man. At the end of each shoot Rebar would have so much of the sticky stuff on him that he would literally have to peel his costume off.
- GoofsWhen the nurse enters the room of the melting man, she drops the blood containers and it splatters her shoes; then, as she runs away down the hallway, her shoes are completely clean.
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Steve West: You've never seen anything, til you've seen the Sun through the rings of Saturn!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Elvira's Movie Macabre: The Incredible Melting Man (1982)
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THIS didn't get any Oscars?!?!?!?!?!?
Well. Apparently in this film there is a "man" who is "melting" and this is "incredible". Whatever. For my money there is only one reason to see this film, and it has nothing to do with snot-faced fellows who eat people's flesh.
At one moment in the film the incredibly thin and pasty protagonist Dr. Ted Nelson mentions his mother-in-law, and suddenly this film swings into high. We're shown a wonderful sequence of two incredibly lumpy elderly folks driving. These oddly shaped, lawn gnome-esque folks decided to steal lemons, but they get scared and run (well, totter) back to their automobile only to be eaten by the titular character.
God, these two actors are wonderful! Dorothy Love and Edwin Max deserve the accolades of their peers for this brief glimpse into the magical and bewitching talents of actors in their prime, who were given a script that seemed to have been written by a spastic monkey.
At one moment in the film the incredibly thin and pasty protagonist Dr. Ted Nelson mentions his mother-in-law, and suddenly this film swings into high. We're shown a wonderful sequence of two incredibly lumpy elderly folks driving. These oddly shaped, lawn gnome-esque folks decided to steal lemons, but they get scared and run (well, totter) back to their automobile only to be eaten by the titular character.
God, these two actors are wonderful! Dorothy Love and Edwin Max deserve the accolades of their peers for this brief glimpse into the magical and bewitching talents of actors in their prime, who were given a script that seemed to have been written by a spastic monkey.
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- zmaturin
- Feb 17, 1999
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By what name was The Incredible Melting Man (1977) officially released in India in English?
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