Night of the Blood Beast (1958)

★★★★★ · CLASSIC B-MOVIE · shevin · 2010-12-18

A classic low budget monster movie. Amongst the finest of its genre.

★★★★★ · Pretty damned cool · cosmico · 2010-11-22

For a flick written by a 21-year-old sci-fi geek kid and shot in a handful of days on a budget around $50,000...I'd say this is pretty damned cool, especially for its budget, time, and the circumstances under which it was made. I'd rather watch this b-flick twice in a row than watch ALIENS or TRANSFORMERS or AVATAR even once. Scared the crap outta me as a kid, and still gives me the creeps. It feels a bit like an Outer Limits episode. No laughs here, intentional or otherwise. Atmospheric and quite unusual, this is highly recommended for sci-fi b-movie buffs with a sense of minimalism and the…

★★★ · The inspiration for Alien? · skybandit · 2010-11-22

I thought of this film while watching "Alien" in the theater,'cuz that's how the space shrimp would have hatched, eh? Both films had a monster that laid their eggs in a human host, were scared of fire, and terrorized a bunch of folks who couldn't get away. At least this bunch didn't overlook the most obvious way of dealing with the intruder: my brother and I spent the last half hour of "Alien" annoying the other patrons by chanting "Open the air lock! Open the air lock!" before Ripley finally followed our advice. A tasty slice of Corman cheese!

★★★ · Better Than Average · ProudNonGamer · 2019-07-11

Cheesy entertainment late at night, but any adult who thinks this is creepy needs to get help.

★★ · Killer Parrots From Outer Space! · billbarstad · 2010-11-22

The movie starts with an astronaut in trouble, his craft out of control and hurtling toward Earth. If you listen to what he's recording during this dramatic period, it's no surprise why this is. It's a bunch of gibberish. Of course, most folks wouldn't know that in 1959. Alan Shepard wouldn't make the historic suborbital flight that captured my imagination until 1961. The director did his best to insert action in this talky melodrama, and kept a decent pace to it. He even had the young woman in the piece wait apart from the two men she went to the capsule a second time with so the monster…

★★ · Standard Corman fare · BeanieandCecil · 2012-09-04

It's that standard Roger Corman fare. Low budgets equals one or two sparse sets with lots of dialogue to cover for no action. The monster is a sort of paper mache giant mole man who doesn't get much screen time. It's a fairly nice print but there was one edit that seemed to imply some missing material. Angela Greene spends the entire movie either crying or covering her face as her way of showing sorrow and shock.