The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

User Rating:

2.8/10   

Director:

William Sachs

Writer:

William Sachs (writer)

Release Date:

December 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Horror

Tagline:

The first new horror creature

Plot:

An astronaut is transformed into a murderous gelatinous mass after returning from an ill-fated space voyage.

Plot Keywords:

Astronaut | Saturn | Sun | Fisherman | Hospital

Cast

Alex Rebar	...	Steve West (The Melting Man)
Burr DeBenning	...	Dr. Ted Nelson
Myron Healey	...	General Michael Perry
Michael Alldredge	...	Sheriff Neil Blake
Ann Sweeny	...	Judy Nelson
Lisle Wilson	...	Dr. Loring
Cheryl Smith	...	The Model (as Rainbeaux Smith)
Julie Drazen	...	Carol
Stuart Edmond Rodgers	...	Little Boy
Chris Witney	...	Little Boy
Edwin Max	...	Harold
Dorothy Love	...	Helen
Janus Blythe	...	Nell Winters
Jonathan Demme	...	Matt Winters
Westbrook Claridge	...	Second Security Guard

Runtime:

84 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:(Banned) | Italy:VM14 | Australia:R | Finland:(Banned) | France:-16 | Norway:18 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18 | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

San Fernando Valley Generating Station, San Fernando, California, USA

Company:

American International Pictures (AIP)

Trivia:

The films Spanish title is Viscosidad, which means "Stickiness."

Goofs:

Factual errors: Saturn's rings are composed of icy debris. A spacecraft flying through them would more than likely be smashed apart long before a mysterious phenomenon could cause its crew to melt.

Quotes:

[it's lunch time at the Nelson home]
Dr. Ted Nelson: Steve escaped.
Judy Nelson: Oh God. What're you gonna do?
Dr. Ted Nelson: Uh... did you get some crackers? I told you yesterday that we needed some crackers.
Judy Nelson: Oh, I forgot. I knew there was something... Y'know there's uh, there's a pad right by the phone y'know, you could write it down too.
[she brings over his soup]
Judy Nelson: So what about Steve?
Dr. Ted Nelson: So, we don't have any crackers?
Judy Nelson: Ted. Steve?
Dr. Ted Nelson: Steve? I've got to go out and find Steve.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Invasion of the Scream Queens (1992)

a movieland fairy tale

Once upon a time some evil people made a movie about a guy that got shot into space, supposedly to go to Saturn, but really only to some stock footage of solar flares, and then he gets a nose bleed, and before you know it, he's laying in a hospital bandaged head to foot, and then an overweight nurse with an ill-fitting uniform comes in and gets eaten by the guy, whose supposed to be melting all over the place but never seems to lose any mass, and then NASA, or at least one guy at NASA, gets upset about it and calls one other guy in to hunt him down, but the guy they sent to hunt the melting guy has to go home and have soup first, and his oddly-shaped wife forgot the crackers, so he can't have crackers, and then he has to go out and look for the melting guy with a geiger counter, and that doesn't really work, so he really only follows the trail of half-eaten corpses, and then there's something about a sheriff, and two ugly old people in a lemon grove, and a women with a meat cleaver, and some kind of industrial plant with trigger-happy security guards, and since I can't tell you how the movies ends, all I can say is Jonathan Demme is in it somewhere with some guy with the stupid name of Burr DeBenning, and if there's any justice in the world everyone connected with this movie died a hideous, violent death and was unable to make more movies, and the world lived HAPPILY EVER AFTER - THE END!