It may rank as one of the worst titles ever slapped
on a movie marquee, but you only have to spend a few minutes viewing this 1958
sci-fi classic to know it’s a lot better than its name. Just watch the unusual
and effective tracking shot that director Gene Fowler Jr. uses to establish the
opening of the movie and you have an idea of what’s to come. It’s the story of
a young guy named Bill Farrell (Tom Tryon) who, on his way home from his
bachelor party, stops to see if the body lying across the road is in need of
assistance. Turns out it’s an alien and it doesn’t need help; it needs Bill
Ferrell’s body so he can mate with earth women and save his race. It isn’t long
before the men of the town are all infected and the women are all heading to
the altar (since it’s 1958 and nobody, not even aliens, will be having sex out
of wedlock). It’s creepy and cool.
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