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John Canon and Leslie Rivers...what a pair! These two unsung decent actors had surprisingly convincing chemistry between them. They both made this movie that much more tolerable as did the excellent cinematography and the well conveyed moody atmosphere. The story is well-tread and predictable and the incidents too few for the movie's timeframe. As a result, we have a movie that drags on with its poigniant moments of developing love between kidnapper and abductee fizzling to an ignorable drone. What's remarkable is how society in this picture is portrayed as uncaring and ugly: an old man sits on a bench looking on as blood curdling shrieks emit from the window of the hotel where Leslie River's character is being raped. Other incidents of violence occure while passers-by either go about their own business or wish not to be disturbed. At one point, while running from her abductor, Rivers pleads with a wandering man for help but he can't do anything as he is blind. The surroundings being filled with useless or evil people creates a feeling of helplessness. Finally, the picture ends as it does (I wont spoil) and mercifully so as it tends to go on a bit too long and instead of "THE END" we see "FOR ADOLPH". What the hell does that mean? Hitler? Probably not, but still, one of those mysteries that makes a movie that much more special.

This is the afternoon movie. There is no other afternoon movie. You can see it on TV with all of Rick Baker's fine work reined in by the selfish censors that want to keep the nasty bits for themselves, or you can rent it from a non-Blockbuster video outlet and enjoy it as it was meant to be seen. Either way it's dopey fun to watch a 6-foot-6 pile of melting humanoid goo run around and mutilate people. Check it out: it begins with Steve-the-astronaut floating around Saturn with 2 other guys in a space capsule roughly the size of a Honda civic. Imagine being trapped from Earth to Saturn with 2 other guys in a Honda civic! Anyhow, enduring such an excrutiating travel condition for such a long haul evidently impaired Steve-the-astronaut's acting ability. He turns some grotesquely large black knobs on what was once a ham radio, peers out the window and tells mission control "You've never seen anything...until you've seen the sun through the rings of Saturn..." The lack of enthusiasm in his tone is something that resonates in my head to this day. Suddenly the crew is hit by a wave of bad visual effects. Steve spits up blood and the next scene he's already back home in a hospital. Classic! Covered from head to toe in bandages, Steve convelesces in a grave state while the doctor comments that the rest of the crew has died. After he's left alone with his rather rotund nurse, Steve- now the Incredible Melting Man,- suddenly attacks and chases the nurse out of the room and into a slow motion screaming run for her life down a large hallway. We see the gurth and breasts of this woman bounce in their altered action as she approaches the camera in a shot of UDDER horror. Suddenly she bursts through a glass door and falls into the parking lot where a shadow looms over her. EEEEEEK! - cut to next scene- then later we see her form ala Rick Baker on the autopsy table, an effect that is actually shocking in its realism and missed in the edited versions. For the rest of the movie, the IMM is on a rampage, killing and eating victims all about the local area. A military guy and Steve's old buddy try to keep the situation hush-hush as they run around not finding him. The plot holes in this movie are so immense that they should be preserved as a national monument! The acting is so bad that the people involved in this movie should be quarantined to keep real actors from catching what they have! But the effects are wonderful and this movie is pure fun! Don't miss this one!

Of all films ever made this is the lowest, most depraved attempt...nay- ACT OF LUNACY ever mistaken for distributable motion picture. It is offensive to all people on all levels and in all possible manners purely WRONG! Whoever would consider that it would be entertaining to see a native woman skewered through on a wooden stake or see a foetus torn from a woman's stomache or the numerous animals that were actually killed for the movie should be committed for life or executed. Why they would think somebody might enjoy seeing a close-up of a castration or a hut full of people burned alive or numerous people blugeoned throughout the movie is beyond me. The low-lifes that made this film are without any moral fiber whatsoever. So don't miss this one! It's a classic!!! 5 out of 5 stars!