Blaisdell said only Marshall Thompson seemed to be enjoying himself. Blaisdell said it wasn't a happy set, what with Corrigan drunk on and off, and the film's female star Shawn Smith constantly in a bad mood, furious that she had been cast in a low-budget monster movie. As filming progressed, Ray Corrigan turned up drunk on the set a few times, refused to follow certain directions from Ed Cahn and even damaged the monster suit, causing Blaisdell to be called in to do a couple of quick "patch-up" jobs. īlaisdell said working for United Artists wasn't nearly as happy an experience as working at AIP was for him. Consequently, there were final fit problems with the creature's head prop: ".bulbous chin stuck out through the monster's mouth, so the make-up man painted his chin to look like a tongue." Blaisdell then added a bottom row of fangs that covered Corrigan's jutting chin. Therefore, Blaisdell could not take exact measurements of Corrigan's head. Corrigan was set to play the creature, but during pre-production, he did not want to travel over to Topanga Canyon in western Los Angeles County where Paul Blaisdell lived and operated his studio. It! was the last film of actor Ray "Crash" Corrigan. Small kept changing his mind over whether or not he wanted plastic eyes installed in the creature's mask, causing a lot of aggravation for the film's makeup artist, Paul Blaisdell. Principal photography took place over a two-week period during mid-January 1958. It! The Terror from Beyond Space was financed by Edward Small and was originally known as It! The Vampire from Beyond Space. ( November 2016)ĭrive-in advertisement from 1958 featuring It! The Terror from Beyond Space with companion feature, Curse of the Faceless Man. The project director emphasizes that Earth may now be forced to bypass the Red Planet "because another word for Mars is Death". A violent decompression follows, and the plan works: "It" suffocates and finally expires, stuck part way through the final hatch.Ī press conference is later held on Earth, revealing the details of what happened aboard the rescue ship. In a last desperate move, everyone puts on their spacesuits, and Carruthers opens the command deck's hull airlock directly to the vacuum of space. When Carruthers notices the ship's higher-than-normal oxygen consumption rate, he surmises that this is due to the creature's larger lung capacity, needed for the thin Martian atmosphere. The survivors (except for an injured crewman, who is trapped below in a spot inaccessible to the creature) retreat to the control room on the topmost deck. The creature is so strong that it can tear through the metal hatches separating each of the ship's levels. It easily crashes through the door and escapes. When "It" is tricked into going into the spaceship's atomic reactor room, they shut the heavily shielded door and expose the creature directly to the ship's nuclear pile.
They next try electrocution, also with no effect. The crew use hand grenades and gas grenades, but the creature proves to be immune to both.
An autopsy of Kienholz's body reveals that it has been sucked dry of all fluids. Bullets have no effect, forcing the crewman to leave Gino behind, much to the distress of his brother Bob. He is found, barely alive, but the creature attacks his would-be rescuer. However, when Kienholz investigates odd sounds coming from a lower level, he is killed and his body hidden in an air duct. The crew are at first skeptical that something crawled aboard while they were on Mars. While the ship was on the Martian surface, an emergency hatch had been left open, allowing the creature easy access. Van Heusen is unconvinced and makes sure that Carruthers is constantly accompanied by another member of his crew. Carruthers denies this allegation, attributing his crew's deaths to a hostile humanoid life form on the Red Planet.Ĭommander Col. He is suspected of having murdered the other nine members of his crew for their food and water rations, on the premise that he had no way of knowing if or when an Earth rescue mission would ever arrive.
In 1973, a nuclear-powered spaceship blasts off from Mars for Earth, bringing with it the sole survivor of the first mission, Col.
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