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Product Description The Monster That Challenged the WorldCreeping dread! Crawling terror! Oozing fear! The local beaches go from fun-filled swim-fest to horrifying slugfest when a horde of gargantuan vampire snails ooze their way into the water supply and threaten to suck the life out of mankind! Packed with nerve-jangling suspense and excitement (Variety) this slimy sci-fi thriller delivers superior monster action (VideoHound s Movie Guide) that ll pull the most hardened sci-fi cynic right out of his shell!Running Time 69 MinIt! The Terror from Beyond SpaceToo terrifying to even have a name It is a seemingly invincible monster that is hellbent on killing everybody on a mission to Mars. A Martian by birth and Frankenstein by instinct (Variety) this life-devouring alien brushes aside bullets and even nuclear blasts making it the deadliest Cold War-style invader ever to hit the silver screen.Running Time 74 MinSystem Requirements: Running Time 143 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: NR UPC: 027616910851 Manufacturer No: 1006944
See "It!"November 18, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fete of Death "The Monster That Challenged the World" is about giant snails that spring out of the Salton Sea and terrorize the world and, if you pardon the pun, is sluggish, to say the least. It's silly hokum.
The reason to watch this DVD is the second feature "It! The Terror from Beyond Space." This is a tense little sci-fi thriller that reminds me of the fifties' classic "The Thing from Another World." Made on a shoestring, "It! The Terror from Beyond Space" generates taut suspense. I know the Martian creature called "It" looks cheesy and obviously fake compared to today's monsters, but it doesn't matter. This movie is a cut above the average sci-fi flick.
--Bryan Cassiday, author of "Fete of Death"
good but better available todayNovember 10, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
These are good movies (I would give 3 1/2 stars - "IT" was my favorite) that don't match up to today's FX or thrills. For example, "IT" is close to the plot of "Alien" (as noted in other reviews), but cannot match that movie's tension (of course not a lot of movies do match it).
Maybe nostalgia is the main reason for buying these, but there could others. Years ago, I used "IT" as a movie my kids had to watch and not be frightened by before I would let them watch "Alien."
The Terror From Beyond Space (1957)September 15, 2008 Saw this picture as a kid. It still hasn't lost it's mystery and excitment as an adult. Highly reccomend it for the serious science buff.
B-Sci Fi NostalgiaSeptember 7, 2008 Monster that Challenged the World & It! The Terror from Beyond Space work well for me on two levels: 1) the nostaglia level for a nerdy kid who never really grew up where double-feature matinees were an antidote to growing up in a culturally starved steel mill town in the 1950s, and 2) interesting examples of workman-like acting and production values for low budget studio films. Not gems or classics, but serious attempts to deliver some entertainment value wherein the actors, writers, and directors did not carry on as though they were above their material. Monster is another cautionary about the effects of radiation, with giant amphibious mollusks, reminscent of SNL's landsharks. IT! is a 10 Little Indians in Space kind of tale that inspired ALIEN. Its plot is also closely parallel to The Thing (from Another World)but not at the artistic and iconic level of that strange minor masterpiece.
Two excellent B movies from the 1950'sAugust 27, 2008 Both of these movies are excellent films for the 1950's style B monster movies. The Monster That Challenged the World is about prehistoric giant snales that must be prevented from spreading into the worlds oceans and It! The Terror From Beyond Space is about a Martian creature that is trapped aboard a ship returning to earth and is stalking the crew for food. Both take themselves seriously and are consistant in that no miracles happens and the obvious solutions are prevented by plausable complications early on. A must have for viewers looking for the saturday creature feature shows of the 60's and 70's. Both are presented in their original Black and White. There are no extras on the disks. This is also a dual sided DVD with one movie per side.
