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It takes a while for the story to get going, but when it does it becomes fast paced horror. It was a classic by the time I was born, and it was shown on a TV matinee that ran everyday all week in the afternoon. Although I feel that John Carpenter's version was better done than this one, but this is still the original. The team is in trouble partly because they are isolated in the polar region, and lacks resource. If it's anywhere else, they could get a flame thrower and smoke the thing. This clauster phobic atmosphere is what makes this movie work. The team is forced to improvise a defense against the thing from outer space. These days you can obtain a copy on a DVD at a discounted price, and that would be the best way to enjoy this movie now. It's made well enough that it stands repeat viewing even today.

What did they want to tell with this story ? I watched it so that I can follow the mythology of X men, but if they keep on making crap like this I think I will stop watching. The movie is just violent, and the characters are just into violence. There's no action. Only violence. The characters are only there to perpetuate violence, and I didn't like that at all. Maybe a little more plot and story telling next time. But for me I don't think there is no next time.

It might have been just a crazy movie in the '60s that had no significance, but now in the 21st century when what the Nazis were doing during WWII is better known, this movie has a strange contemporary feel to it. A journalist, and a bar singer find themselves traveled in time to arrive in the laboratory of Nazi scientist. He talks about time travel and plans about bringing Hitler back from time.We know now that Nazis were working on some sort of time machine known as the "Bell" (Die Glocka). Maybe in another time line, third Reich might have won the war as this scientist was claiming to do. The movie is contemporary in the same vein as the "Iron Sky" (2016).