April Kent, Billy Curtis, Dean Cromer
After an exposure to a strange mist, Scott Carey begins to shrink. After facing such trials as confounded doctors and his angry cat, he accidently gets locked in the basement. His very life then becom...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 13, 2008
Stats: 183 reviews
Such an influential film, Jack Arnold at his best and a truly wonderful sci-fi classic. The last scene is so haunting and totally unexpected and the special effects are special, beats CGI any day!
so I finally got to see it again, after so many years when I was just a little kid, the power of this fantastic movie is even stronger than what I remember.
Suspenseful and imaginative sci-fi classic, with Richard Matheson's thoughtful prose, and remarkable special effects.
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Top notch science fiction with mind blowing special effects, especially when you consider that this film was released in 1957!
"the incredible shrinking man" distinguisghes itself from the rest pieces in the sci-fi genre by its poetic stroke of existentialism, analouous to kafka's "mtamorphosis", a tale about the alienated solitude as well as the discrimination toward the other. BUT kafka's culprit is th...( read more)
Grant Williams is exposed to a radioactive mist & is shrinking in stature & is fighting for his life against cats, spiders & a broken water heater. Some great special effects here for a film 50 plus years old (excellent use of large set props giving the great sense of size ratio...( read more)
This is one that was on Chiller Theater when I was growing up. Typical Sci Fi Movie from the Fifties, A couple are out in a boat when hubby sends the wife below deck to get him a beer, that was back in the time when wife?s did things for there husbands, anyway while below deck a ...( read more)
A man starts to shrink after being exposed to a strange mist while out on the ocean.
I love watching old time special effects and during the climax, I was actually worried about what was going to happen. Also, this movie has one hell of a great ending.
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For those who have never seen it,this was one of the greatest science fiction-fantasy films that ever came out of the 1950's. Based from the novel by Richard Matheson(who was also the writer of this movie and also was one of the writers for several episodes of the original "The Twilight Zone" TV series). This was a movie that was to see to believe---a man shrinks to the size of a mouse and his adventures are astounding to behold!!! Also featured in this classic film were two unknown actors here one of them was William Schallert(from the TV series Patty Duke Show),and the other was Raymond Bailey(aka Milburn Drysdale of the TV series The Beverly Hillbillies). This is worth seeing and it was a classic movie if you're wondering where some of the ideas that George Lucas,Steven Spielburg and James Cameron came from this movie. Catch sometime on DVD!!!
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