Has More of that 1960's Serious Vibe than its 50's Cousins.
But Echoes Remain with Some of the Models, SFX, and Ridiculous Teen-Age Type Flirting in the 1st Act.
Things Tense-Up Once a Fungus is Discovered and then Spreads Throughout the Space-Station.
The Story is a Familiar One, but the Mutiny Angle is Rare in Space Movies.
The Rocket-Ships are Nifty but the Station, Exteriors, while Cool are Probably Over-Used.
The Creeping Organic Terror Does Most of its Creeping Across the Ship and Not On the Crew and is Sort of, Well, Creepy.
Not a Bad "B" with about a $90,000 Budget.
It Comes Off Like an Episode of a TV Show Mostly, but a Good TV Show.
Some Serious Effort was Done to Make this Better than it Should.
With an Above Average Script and Detailed Set and Model Work that Delivers a Notch Above the Standard Stuff.
In just a Few Years Stanley Kubrick would Shake-Up the Sci-Fi Movie World.
Then Thinking on these Things would Never be the Same Again.
Worth a Watch.
But Echoes Remain with Some of the Models, SFX, and Ridiculous Teen-Age Type Flirting in the 1st Act.
Things Tense-Up Once a Fungus is Discovered and then Spreads Throughout the Space-Station.
The Story is a Familiar One, but the Mutiny Angle is Rare in Space Movies.
The Rocket-Ships are Nifty but the Station, Exteriors, while Cool are Probably Over-Used.
The Creeping Organic Terror Does Most of its Creeping Across the Ship and Not On the Crew and is Sort of, Well, Creepy.
Not a Bad "B" with about a $90,000 Budget.
It Comes Off Like an Episode of a TV Show Mostly, but a Good TV Show.
Some Serious Effort was Done to Make this Better than it Should.
With an Above Average Script and Detailed Set and Model Work that Delivers a Notch Above the Standard Stuff.
In just a Few Years Stanley Kubrick would Shake-Up the Sci-Fi Movie World.
Then Thinking on these Things would Never be the Same Again.
Worth a Watch.