X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

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Plot: "Only the gods see everything," cautions one scientist as Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) experiments with a formula that will allow the human eye to see beyond the wavelength of visible light. "I am c...( read more  )losing in on the gods," he responds with the hubris that is doomed to destroy his overreaching ambition. A mix of Greek tragedy and sci-fi potboiler, Roger Corman's X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (simply identified as X in the eerie, odd opening credits) is a familiar tale of a scientist who risks everything to explore the unknown and is finally driven mad by, literally, seeing too much. Peeping through the clothes of comely women is all good adolescent fun until the gift becomes a nightmare as his sight rages out of control. The possibilities suggested in the hints of addiction and inconsistent bouts of megalomania remain tantalizingly unexplored in the unfocused script, and Corman's cut-rate special effects are often more hokey than haunting (the "city dissolved in an acid of light" that Xavier poetically describes becomes fuzzy photography through a series of color filters). Don Rickles offers a venal turn as a scheming carnival barker turned blackmailing con man, and Diana Van der Vlis is understanding as a sympathetic scientist who tries to rescue Xavier from his spiral into tortured madness, but in the tradition of Greek tragedy, he is doomed to be destroyed by the very gifts he desires.

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  MCT:

  July 2, 2008

  Another Roger Corman classic. It starts out campy and then descends into a total nightmare with a shocker ending.

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  Watchman83
  

  MCT:

  May 22, 2008

  The tacky title betrays this surprisingly somber & conceptually ambitious film of Lovecraftian cosmic horror & madness.

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  MCT:

  December 9, 2007

  A genuinely great suspense film from Roger Corman, of all people. Very much a psychological picture, with a hefty dose of sixties surrealism, leading up to one of the great shock endings.

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  MCT:

  November 24, 2007

  I've been meaning to watch this for years after Stephen King recommended it in his book "Danse Macabre". A great premise: Ray Milland experiments with hormones to increase his eyesight to superhuman abilities and succeeds far beyond his greatest dreams (and nightmares! bwoohahahaaa!). Campy fun with some creepy music and pretty passable special effects for the time, but it's the very end that you have to stick around for. King described it in his book, and he definitely did it justice. Corman tapped into something pretty horrifying here; I'd love to see the idea explored again, preferrably in a sci-fi remake without Will Smith or Nicolas Cage attached (actually, come to think of it, Cage could probably camp it up to great effect).

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  MCT:

  November 21, 2007

  me senti mal vendo a agonia do Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland)
  filme muito doido (pra epoca!!!)
  Sem duvida pra mim um classico...

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• Rated: (Unrated)
• Directed by: Roger Corman
• Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Cult Movies
• Released: September 18, 1963
• DVD Released: June 5, 2001

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