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So horrifyingly close to the truth, it will blow your mind!Plot:
A microorganism from Mars, brought to Earth by a space probe, terrorizes passengers in a railroad office. | add synopsisUser Comments:
Low budget Andromeda Strain, interesting story and worth seeing... more (17 total)Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Stafford Morgan | ... | Dr. Ted Sorenson |
| John F. Goff | ... | Jack Tiller (as John Goff) |
| Carol Irene Newell | ... | Jenny Moore |
 | George 'Buck' Flower | ... | Hank, the railroad worker |
| Ralph Meeker | ... | Charlie Weigel, station master |
| Paul Bentzen | ... | Dr. Jim Farrell |
| John Alderman | ... | Dr. Frank Rogers |
| Ray Szmanda | ... | The General |
| Harry Youstos | ... | Alvin, night station master (as Harry Youstes) |
| Sir Lawrence Ripp | ... | Security Guard |
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Gleason, Wisconsin, USAFun Stuff
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This is available on a double feature Eastwest DVD with Rebane's 2cnd best film, CAPTURE OF BIGFOOT. One reason these two are his best is that he is working here with unknown actors who are putting in commendable efforts, rather than has-been celebrities who are walking through their roles (well, except for Ralph Meeker here). This one is a bit better than CAPTURE mainly because of the interesting storyline involving a odd virus/enzyme micro-organism from space which infects earth life forms and causes a hideous death only when the infected are at sleep, the type of death I won't give away, but it is pretty gruesome. Much more intellectually challenging than any of his other films, I just wish there had been a bigger budget, and some script holes needed filling. Still, for those who like literate sci-fi (relatively speaking) and enjoy things like 1950s Quatermass films, this will be fine. Effects are nearly on par with the Quatermass films too, though 20 years later. And so what if the ending is taken from Night of the Living Dead? What hasn't been stolen from that gem by loads of filmmakers?