It! The Terror from Beyond Space

[mickeymousebiker1]

Ridley Scott -- where ever you are.

[CLASSICMONSTERGUY95]

You can see how this movie influenced the making of Alien. It should have been included as an extra on the Alien DVD.

[AlwaysWrongFilm]

Looks like they were trying to implement subliminal messages in this trailer.

[bella50008]

LOL!!! Saw this last night and laughed sooo hard, but I thought the same thing. This is exactly where they got Alien from. Monster kills spacemen on planet, then stows away aboard their ship killing them off one by one, using their bodies - not to eat - but to absorb their fluid, then is killed by lack of oxygen!! This was crazy and funny, but I still can't watch Aliens alone

[themamagoatshow]

oh dear god i have this on dvd!!!!!

[fukapple]

The film that inspired ALIEN.

[gonzaloNMF]

@fukapple You are right dude. This one and the planet of the vampires

[HonJao]

This is the third movie monster I've seen named IT

[dltanner99]

Horror novel see video book trailer

[MrCrazyFOOTball]

Everyone Type "Won" Before youtube.com

[Magnolia296]

Don't compare this cheap trash to legendary Alien. Ridley Scott never heard about this movie when he was making his Alien and the main script writer of alien was influenced by another book

[Spartacus217]

@Magnolia296 This movie is a classic in it's own right.

[bella50008]

@Magnolia296 ...Aliens soooooo ripped this off! I really don't think anyone cares though.

[Magnolia296]

@bella50008 Sorry sweety, but this movie ripped off sooooooo many other horror films with similar storyline in early 50's. Anyway Alien was/is the scariest among them

[TheJomogogo]

Dammmmit....this movie was posted recently, got taken down before I got to watch it.

[TheToocold]

this is actually the film that inspired ridley scott's"alien". aNOTHER NAME FOR mARS IS....death!"

[zastonecesda]

I love those "subliminal" messages :D

[Christopher41791]

When I was kid, this movie scared the shit out me, I considered this the best horror space movie of that time -1959..

Excellent & great special effects .

[rangeclerk]

This movie had to be what got them thinking about creating the movie ALIEN!

[Actionguy1]

@rangeclerk Exactly! This was the forrunner of "Alien".

[rangeclerk]

@Actionguy1 Thanks for the reply! Much Thanks! "What makes you think it is so intelligent col?" "Well, it had to have read the script to this movie, and that inform it what hatch to open and close."

[dboxer12]

When I was a kid, I was afraid to go to sleep after seeing this movie. This was really scary. A good sci fi movie

[mig189189189]

Great post!



[FrankBordelon]

I always enjoyed this movie when I was a kid, even then I realized you couldn't shoot bazookas in a confined space like a Spaceship, and to top it off, the creature was only about eight feet away, and the guys still missed! That always cracked me up!

[TheJomogogo]

@FrankBordelon

Yeah shooting bazookas and M1 Garands, hand grenades, etc, inside a spaceship, man they made them tough in the 50's.

[DannyGrowth]

I remember my English teacher in high school and I bonding during academic decathalon because I was the only person he'd ever met who had seen this film (and loved it). Long live 50s B movies!

[GamerDog51]

one of my favorite creature films

[Sang1957]

Another great B movie - I get my DVD of it out and watch it now & then. Still holds up well (IMHO)

[castingtherunes]

This scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. I never looked at a ventilator shaft the same way again!

[2008littlejohn]

I'm pretty sure they based the original Alien on this movie - so many scenes were similar including the final one.

[leojr2005]

@2008littlejohn  that makes no sense

[2008littlejohn]

You don't say why so I assume you mean the plot. Well I mentioned the final scene of IT - they killed the monster by letting all the air out of the ship and in Alien the girl manged to throw the monster into airless space.

[leojr2005]

I mean i went to watch this movie after reading your comment and i see no similarities between the two movies but a space ship and an alien maybe the have some inspiration on this but based.

[2008littlejohn]

The alien was indestructable, had a wierd feeding system of osmosis (wierd birth in Alien) and kept sneaking around the ship killing people - quite a few similarities.

[leojr2005]

i am kind of an alien fan that is why this gets my attention now in my opinion the most interesting about the movie alien is the whole creature reproduction cycle and the alien structure it self i understand they took that from some real insects

[leojr2005]

also the 70's creature wasn't indestructible they never really mention any feeding system and all creatures in every single horror monster movie made go around killing people.

[TheJomogogo]

@leojr2005

Dude the producers of this movie considered suing for plagiarism when Alien came out there was never any question about Alien being based on it.

[lasktguy]

The people who made Alien eventually came out and admitted this movie and Planet of the Vampires were both inspirations for parts of the movie.

[scottlong09]

i watched this when i was 4 or 5 and i loved the alien runing around and killing people he was my favorite charecter from this film and i have not sene this movie since

[karlydoc]

Do they really use computer effects these days?

[whiskeyify]

loved this as a kid, still like to watch it.

somehow these old monsters just seem so real.

today they use a lot of computer generated special effects etc.

In this film there's a real person inside that monster suit.

[captainfunk50]

Did you notice the dude on the left, played the pastor on Little House on The Prarie!

[mrcraig41]

This film was made in 1958 and did you notice the "future setting" of this flick? It was set in the future of 1973! Also the scene where all the women crew members are 'serving' the male crew members in the dining area is funny. It's more like a diner. I guess things hadn't changed much by '1973', with the women still depicted in the same old subservient roles.

[02javis]

these aliens make us humans look good.

[Shawnster65]

Directed by Edward L. Kahn, who also gave us such hits as "Invisible Invaders" and "Creature With The Atom Brain" to name a few.

[wowcrap]

Saw this for the first time in the mid 70s as a 7 year old. Think it was on Dr. Shock.

It was the first film that really, truly scared the living shit out of me. Had to leave the light on for a week (maybe longer) when I slept.. Ah, the memories.

[quakey987]

I really don't want to be a spoiler , but this movie might have had some technologica and scientific flaws in the storyline.

[barflewk]

Ya mean when they pull out a bazooka and M1 Garands on the spaceship and trip-wire a dozen hand grenades to blow up the monster? Try to imagine a firefight like that on the space shuttle and it does get ridiculous. But I liked the movie as a kid. Spacemen in the 50's went well armed.

[Spartacus217]

"IT" is the shit!

[sihingjimo]

Not to mention, the Reactor with it's thousands of degrees doesn't have an effect...but that li'l 'ol Blowtorch sure keeps Itty in his place...O well, we enjoyed it on TV as kids, and now we can comment on it in a fun way...

[sihingjimo]

This movie had the concept that inspired "Alien"...you know, the monster on the spaceship...however, it has omly the ol' 50's effects, none of the now-a-days computer stuff...I and my siblings, as 4 to 11 year olds, watched this, seemingly so often, on "Chiller Theater" on Saturday nights....channel 11 in the then-New-York area...and I love it to this day!! Even tho it has it's absurdities, such as hand grenades exploding on a SpaceShip!!!...

[wevetra13]

But if you factor in the technology at the time, it really was one of the "better" drive- in features. The precursor to "Alien"!. And, like you, I liked it a lot!

[wevetra13]

Loved it...did the "Schlock Theatre thing with my sister...nice memories.

[leatherfaze03]

Actually Alie's producers got sued by the makers of this film

[daveybobjr]

i love this movie, it inspired me an a few mates to do somethin like this, check it out on my channel

[MalReynolds01]

Cool,i collect this kind of movis,i have It,get a few weeks ago,he is a little bit short but realy GREAT ENTERTAINMANT i love it.

[drrootseedman]

I love 1950's sci-fi. You should see the films that I made, trying to take what works about this stuff and update it. It's on my channerl if ya want...

[Mality]

Great classic scifi with a lot of atmosphere. Don't know how many movies and TV shows were inspired by this, but it sure had to be a lot.

[autobodypro]

Awesome sci-fi movie!! it inspired "Alien"

[torchkit]

I like the subliminal ad at 1:05.

[hutsell]

I brushed it off as film burns or scratches until reading your comment. The subliminal happens twice; at 1:02 and 1:04. The white transition title of "It" at the end tends to distract from the original two. Thanks.

[elquetemonta]

I...must...see...IT! And i don´t know why!

[jmet718]

yeah this i gotta get!!

[SteelyDug]

One of the old classics I used to watch on "Chiller" as a kid...Anybody remember "The Brain From Planet Arous?" or "Attack of the Crab Monsters?"

[dgteske]

you and my mom. i love to watch this movie!

[ElveeKaye]

Hahahahaaha! Awesome flick! I love these old, cheesy movies. "Beyond space"? I thought once you got to space, there was just more space? I guess "The Terror From Space" just wasn't scary enough!

[kull20]

thanks for loading this vid, brings back memories watching the early 70's tv show called creature features. this movie scared the crap out of me when i was 7 lol. the creature is classic 50's cheese with his padded ahoulders, oversized cartoonish claws and asmatic weeze Throughout the movie lol love it :)

[TheGringoLoco]

Great post! Thanks! I own about six different copies of this movie on three different formats over the years now....VHS , BetaMax and DVD. All those cheesey, B-grade, low-budget, black and white, drive-in-theater brand horror and science-fiction movies from the mid to late 1950's and early to mid 1960's are like my favorite kinds of movies. lol

[clarence99]

i remember watching this movie as a kid in the 70`s. its still cool. the guy trapped down there with the monster with only the assedeline torch to keep it away but he is running out of fuel.this movie did alot with very little scenery

[thugie1]

It was a fun movie to watch as a kid on a saturday afternoon. I still laugh at the reference to this movie in The Little Shop of Horrors remake from the 80s. Audrey II: "Keep the Thing! Keep the It! Keep the Creature they don't mean shit!"

[MdP2]

Like "Alien", this movie was inspired by A. E. Van Vogt works. A. E. Van Vogt apparently reached an out-of-court settlement with the Producers of "Alien", claiming that they had stolen from his shortstory "Black Destroyer" (1939), which is contained in his collection "Voyage of the Space Beagle" (1950).

[YouCanCallMeJoe]

Yes, I was just going to say.....this movie started it all.

[doktordemon]

This is the movie that inspired Alien.

[ollin]

yeah thats pretty cheesy!