But it never came to Australia, so I had to settle on the superb New English Library novelisation by Phil Smith (which I still treasure), until it eventually came out on VHS in 1986. Declaring it as cinema’s ‘New Horror Creature’, I had to see it.
I first learned laid eyes on The Incredible Melting Man back in 1978 when it featured on the July cover of Famous Monsters of Filmland. The film also served as a launch pad for emerging SFX talents like Greg Cannom and Rob Bottin.
But the real hero here is make up legend Rick Baker whose blood, pus and mucous dripping effects are simply amazing (they look even better on Blu-ray). Taking its cues from the 1950s classics The Quatermass Experiment, The First Man Into Space (the crusty blood sucking creature scared the hell out of me as a child) and The Hideous Sun Demon, and with clear nods to James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931) and George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968), Sachs’ sci-fi is a silly popcorn treat that well deserves its reputation as a cult classic thanks to its riotous dialogue and comedic performances (especially Myron Healey as the General). He may have lost that fight, but his grisly humour is still very much evident a turkey leg mistaken for a decapitated limb is a standout, as are the closing scenes in which Steve’s liquefied remains gets unceremoniously shoveled into a rubbish bin. Can concerned scientist Ted Nelson (Burr DeBenning) and dim-witted sheriff Neil Blake (Michael Alldredge) stop the melting human time bomb before the body count rises?ĭirector William ‘Bill’ Sachs originally envisioned his 1977 sci-fi as a comic book spoof called The Ghoul from Outer Space. Escaping from his hospital bed, Steve embarks on a murderous rampage of the local countryside.
He Must Be Stopped Before He Kills Us All!Īstronaut Steve West (Alex Rebar), a man barely alive after a disastrous space mission to the rings of Saturn has become exposed to a mysterious organism, which has taken possession of his flesh, and is now turning him into a goopy flesh-eating ghoul.
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