With one of the greatest film titles of all time 'The Incredible Melting Man' is only really notable for one thing, the amazingly good make-up effects from Rick Baker. Indeed poor astronaut Steve West does melt as he walks through the landscape, losing a bit of flesh here, an ear there etc until his final dissolution outside a factory at the end of the film. The movie does have comic moments (the hilarious old couple looking for lemons) but there is a bleakness too. By the end the doctor, the general and several police are dead and Steve West gets swept up and put in a dustbin as just trash leaving only the doctor's pregnant wife left. No laughing matter there then. You can criticise the acting, the music score and the cinematography but I found the movie kept my attention until the end.
First saw the film at the cinema (in beautiful Manchester) when it came out in 1977. The only thing I remembered was the severed head going over the waterfall in slow motion. It still haunts me to this very day.
First saw the film at the cinema (in beautiful Manchester) when it came out in 1977. The only thing I remembered was the severed head going over the waterfall in slow motion. It still haunts me to this very day.