The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
88 %
Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 14 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.5/10
Runtime: 81 mins
Synopsis: When an ordinary businessman encounters a mysterious radioactive mist during a boating trip, his life takes a bizarre and frightening twist. Soon he finds he is shrinking and within weeks he's just two inches tall battling cats and spiders. [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Raymond Bailey, Paul Langton
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Notable for its relatively intelligent script, for some imaginatively amusing special effects, and for an existential streak which finally has our (tiny) hero pondering the meaning of existence.
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06/06/07
A moving, strangely pantheist assertion of what it really means to be alive. A pulp masterpiece.
06/24/06
Unless a viewer is addicted to freakish ironies, the unlikely spectacle of Mr. Williams losing an inch of height each week will become tiresome before Universal has emptied its lab of science-fiction clichés.
03/25/06
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One of the best s-f flicks of the 1950s. A tragic story that is exciting and touching.
06/26/03
Sparse direction allows the tension to build naturally so that the terror and poignancy of the story work their way into the audience's brain without being forced. A total classic.
05/24/03
The special effects and trick photography are cleverly done (for its time). Also, the story is intelligently handled.
01/01/00
The surreal intensity of outsize objects that loom as the hero shrinks is handled effectively, and the mystical happy ending is a better payoff than one would expect of the genre.
01/01/00
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