Bad Movie Rating: 2/5 (Josh: 2/5; Fred: 2/5; Libby: fell asleep)
Rating: 9/20
Plot: An astronaut crash lands and dies but still has a blood pressure even though he doesn't have a heart beat because the makers of this don't understand the circulatory system. It's later revealed that he's been impregnated by aliens. It's bad for his social life, and no amount of shirtless romps through the desert will change that.
One always wants to investigate the subtexts in these 1950's sci-fi B-movies. I wasn't sure if this was about men reasserting themselves in a world threatened by females and female ideals, a man's role in decisions regarding abortion, rampaging libidos, or something else. Or nothing else! Neither Fred nor Josh seemed all that interested in discussing it.
A pummeling score, lots and lots of talking, and stupid characters who are supposed to be smart characters make this your typical 50's sci-fi fare. It's probably not worth watching even though it's not completely terrible although the monster/alien thing looks like this:
His best scene is one where he shows off his jumping abilities. It's exactly the sort of leap you'd expect from a monster/alien with a crotch like that.
I also liked an x-ray scene which probably surpasses my long-time favorite alien-life-inside-a-person-scene--that one from Alien. Of course, it's an x-ray of the previously-deceased and mostly-shirtless astronaut, and it's awesome because it looks like this:
Sea monkeys or sperm? It doesn't matter because honestly, with all the references to these alien lifeforms being inside the guy, at least two of us Bad Movie Clubbers were too immature to watch this.
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