MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

GazerRise Fantastic!

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Scott LeBrun "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" gets a pleasant enough rehash in this entertaining schlock picture. It stars actor turned author Tom Tryon ("The Cardinal") as Bill Farrell, a newlywed insurance agent who's the first of many small town citizens to have their bodies taken over by aliens. His wife Marge (Gloria Talbott, "The Cyclops") notices that he and other locals have begun to act strangely. Marge soon wonders if there is anybody in the town that she can trust.The aliens are treated with a fairly even hand. They're never portrayed as out and out monsters (invasion doesn't really seem to be their goal), but they still have no compunction about killing. The movie, produced & directed by low budget genre specialist Gene Fowler, Jr. ("I Was a Teenage Werewolf") is certainly not without substance, exploring some of the same themes - like paranoia, and the appearance / imitation of humanity - as "Body Snatchers" did so well two years previously. It's also not without its cheesy charms, as could be expected. The special effects may look awfully crude to some modern viewers, but they're damn entertaining to watch, and the monsters in their natural guise thankfully don't look quite like anything else that this viewer has seen in this genre.The supporting cast features a couple of familiar faces, like Ty Hardin ('Bronco'), Ken Lynch ("Anatomy of a Murder"), John Eldredge ("High Sierra"), James Anderson ("To Kill a Mockingbird"), and boxer turned actor Maxie Rosenbloom ("The Boogie Man Will Get You"). The actors all do a decent enough job, with the very pretty and appealing Talbott making for a compelling heroine. You can't help but feel bad for her, and you do root for her.The idea of "what it means to be human" is common enough in this sort of entertainment, and that also comes into play. The movie has a reasonably fun action climax and an effective forward pace.Seven out of 10.

Michael O'Keefe Directed by Gene Fowler Jr. and B flick in every way. A vintage thriller with mediocre special effects and familiar stars from Saturday Matinée movies. Marge(Gloria Talbott)has so looked forward to her wedding day. Her sweetheart Bill(Tom Tryon)seems to be a total stranger on the honeymoon; and after a year of marriage she is bewildered with the coolness of her husband and concerned enough to see her doctor wondering why she hasn't become pregnant yet. Marge you see has married a monster-like alien from outer space, who is part of a group trying to conquer earth.Predictable, but a whole lot better than some other Sci-Fi releases of the same period. No magnetism between Talbott and Tryon, but then again the script doesn't really require such. Other familiar faces in the cast: Robert Ivers, Ken Lynch, Ty Hardin, John Eldridge and Alan Dexter.

screenman With a title like that, its a wonder anybody took this movie seriously. It sounds like the ultimate science-fiction parody, the headlines of a tabloid newspaper.When, in fact, it is quite a serious and spooky effort.It's a 'body-snatchers' theme. The aliens are kidnapping people and hooking them up to some sort of machine. It allows each to be completely replicated in their physical appearance and personalities, enabling lookalike aliens to go abroad as human replacements. How intimately humans are replicated is never made quite so clear as the title of the movie would suggest.However, the best laid plans of monsters and men come apart. The goodies find the abductees and start unplugging them from the machine. When they do, each alien replicant instead of changing back to its monstrous self, collapses into a big pile of what looks like rice-pudding. The unchanged aliens who are guarding their installation get shot or beaten or just bitten by the trusty dog.The movie contains some sly little social comedies as the title would suggest. We see a group of aliens in the bar, sneering to each other about the fragility of human bodies, like so many rednecks. But this certainly isn't a comedy in itself. Filmed in black & white; it's dark, creepy and at times very atmospheric, with a strong thread of who-is-really-who paranoia running through it. There is one particular scene in which an un-modified alien has gone walkies in human clothing at night in the otherwise deserted town. He is unwittingly propositioned by a local hooker who becomes a little too pressing in her advances. He has his collar turned-up to conceal his face, but she won't be dissuaded.At sight of him she screams and runs and he draws a ray-gun and shoots. She is incinerated so quickly that she vanishes before the last echo of her scream has died away. The blatant murder of a woman in a 1950's movie is a surprisingly rare event.Hardly seen nowadays, but if you're equal to watching 'Dr Who' or 'Star Trek' then you've no business turning your nose up at this.

McQualude I wasn't overly thrilled with this paranoia thriller. The slow paced meandering storyline really never goes far and takes the whole movie to get there. Aliens, who cannot breath our atmosphere decide to take over small town America so they can find a way to breed our women. Unfortunately a whole three-quarters of the movie concerns Gloria Talbot learning that her husband, played by Tom Tryon, is an alien.The pace was too slow with too much time spent on the wife discovering that her husband is not the man she married. (in movie time it takes her over a year to discover the truth) By slow pace I don't mean a lack of action scenes, I mean that for one, the actors move unnaturally slow on screen. There are times when an actor will start a scene normally and abruptly slow in midstep as if reminded off camera to slow down. I also mean that the things that do happen lack substance for the most part, scenes of the alien demonstrating his superior strength by crushing a can or glass. The music is thankfully sparse since when they do play music it often contradicts the mood on screen... light upbeat music during tense, suspenseful moments confuses the mood. The motivation behind the invasion is kept from the audience for most of the movie, I think it was meant to be a shocking reveal and it probably was in the 50's but audiences now will be too jaded. The ending picks up a bit but it's rather late in the movie, by which point Tom Tryon's wooden acting, pouting facial expression, slow movements and slow dialog had worn me out.With no tension, no drama and little suspense I recommend skipping I Married a Monster from Outer Space and watching or rewatching any one of the better sci-fi films of the fifties.