The 1958 movie It! The Terror From Beyond Space has been cited as the inspiration for the 1979 movie Alien. Set in 1973, a mission to Mars aims to rescue the astronauts of the first mission, but there's only one survivor. The crew suspects he murdered the others, but he insists that a Martian monster killed them. They take off, not realizing that the Martian has stowed away on their spacecraft. Yeah, that sounds familiar.
Wikipedia has a hilarious account of why the monster looks the way it does. As a cheap movie with a killer premise, it has a 74% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. (Thanks, WTM!)
Saturday, July 11, 2026
It! The Terror From Beyond Space
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