Who will be his next meal? . I'm Ted Nelson!"
The big finale plays out at a refinery.Here Steve renews old friendships ,and even makes new ones. I DID buy into the reality of the movie, it DID hold my attention all the way through and it DID blow my mind with it's amazingly slimy, gooey, drippy, gloppy FX!
Stuart Edmond Rodgers Months later, he discovers that he appears to be shrinking.
As his mind degenerates too, West escapes the hospital and begins to chow down on the locals while he is pursued by friend Dr. Ted Nelson (Burr DeBenning) and Air Force General Perry (Myron Healey). A Vestron Video VHS Release.
This means we basically get one death scene after another, all set up in cheesy ways which are so blatantly obvious they offer no scares at all these days. For fans of Rick Baker or lovers of low budget horror only This was a movie I seen when I was a kid. The image is an example of a ticket confirmation email that AMC sent you when you purchased your ticket.
He is pursued by his old friend Dr. Ted Nelson(Burr DeBenning) who still harbours ideas to save his ailing friend.Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 September 2013
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It's gloriously gloopy and daft, must have been awful for the actor, but actually is just a little disturbing, when you see eyeballs popping out of sockets etc. But as I said the finale where we actually see the titular character melt away into a slushy, sticky, puddle of goo is by far the highlight. Nelson appeals to West, reminding him that they were friends, and West decides to pull Nelson to safety.
They fill a badly-needed void in a horror fan's soul.
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The film draws heavily from both Robert Day's 1959 movie "The First Man Into Space" and Irvin S Yeaworth Jnr's 1958 sci-fi b-movie "The Blob".
Despite it’s less then 90 minute running time the film is methodically paced.
But a movie that features a bloody melted goop being scooped up into the trash can isn't going to please every taste now is it (c'mon, the ending is obvious from the title)? For some reason director William Sacks and SFX makeup artiste Rick Baker seem slightly embarrassed by having made this movie plus Sacks likes to drone on in interviews about how the producers took his movie away from him and added new footage that grounded the movie in a more realistic tone -- which works exceedingly well! Soon an animal instinct takes over and the now decaying Steve goes on a murderous rampage through the countryside feeding on human flesh to survive. Additionally, the film was extensively re-edited by the producers.
Good B movie, incedible make up from legendary artist Rick Baker (American Werewolf In London, Michael Jackson 's Thriller). kind of way, making it quite chuckle worthy if you are in that frame of mind - and one can only imagine that you know what you are getting into, when you buy an ultra low budget 70's movie called "The Incredible Melting Man". I first saw this film when I was 10 years old in 1977 with my father at the theater. I enjoyed the film for what it was, and thought it was a really creative horror picture in terms of special effects, however the film could have benefitted from a rewrite in terms of storyline. Get a load of that title! Amazingly there are no teens having sex that get killed off, quite surprising really considering.
Its probably the epitome of schlock horror with the added bonus of having some quite dazzling practical effects courtesy of the legend Rick Baker. He is next shown unconscious in a hospital back …
I, however, enjoyed it much, and found the humor and gore effects interesting.
Aside from the gore and melting FX, which were done by the now legendary RIck Baker, there is plenty of hilariously bad dialog and unintentional laugh inducing situations. Factory. Horror, We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future.Regal
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The Incredible Melting Man is a delightfully bad 1977 sci-fi/ horror about ill-fated astronaut Steve West (Alex Rebar) who returns from a space mission exploring Saturn’s rings with a mysterious condition where his flesh is melting and he is radioactive.
Originally intended as an homage to the great "atomic age" horrors of the Fifties, William Sachs' clever satire was recut by its original distributor to cash in on the horror craze.Some reviews were more positive.