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It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) on IMDb

It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)

IT! … Reaches through space! … Scoops up men and women! … Gorges on blood!

It! The Terror from Beyond Space is an independently made 1958 American science fiction horror film, produced by Robert Kent, directed by Edward L. Cahn, that stars Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith (Shirley Patterson), and Kim Spalding. The film was distributed by United Artists as a double feature with Curse of the Faceless Man.

The story involves Earth’s second mission to Mars to discover the fate of the first. They find a sole survivor of that mission and bring him back. The survivor, the expedition’s former commander, claims that his crew were killed by a hostile Martian life form. No one believes him until the creature, now a stowaway, begins hunting the rescue ship’s crew as they return to Earth.

The film’s premise has been cited as an inspiration for screenwriter Dan O’Bannon‘s screenplay for Ridley Scott‘s 1979 film Alien.

This is a poster for It! The Terror from Beyond Space. The poster art copyright is believed to belong to the distributor of the film, United Artists, the publisher of the film or the graphic artist.
This is a poster for It! The Terror from Beyond Space. The poster art copyright is believed to belong to the distributor of the film, United Artists, the publisher of the film or the graphic artist.
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