I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Charming and brutal

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I just watched this classic the other day for the umpteenth time. Enjoyed it even more this time around. Who cares about the incongruities, incontinuities - they define this movie. I missed this movie during its first run at my good old Dundee (ILL) Main Street Theater. But a few years later it showed up on St. Louis, MO television when I was about 11. My parents were abed, and when Allison came on scantily clad I thought "Mom, Dad - should I be watching this?" Steamy stuff. Thank God they didn't wake up and impose censorship.Someone previously (tongue-in-cheek, I'm sure) mentiioned this was his or her favorite movie along with "Citizen Kane". I had the same thought. But I've got to be in the mood for Citizen; I'm always in the mood for Attack.

After seeing a giant in the middle of the highway, Nancy Fowler Archer (Allison Hayes), terrified, attempts to convince the Sheriff and her husband Harry Archer (William Hudson). She gets nowhere, with her bad mental history shadowing her theory. Meanwhile, Harry, is cheating on her, who is only married for the money, compromises to check her theory. More events follow and soon, a giant woman comes into the story-line. With poor visual effects (mind you, it is 1958) it doesn't help that the story ,overall, is quite dry and I found myself somewhat bored for the first-half or so. But it picks up, the story and effects. The dreary plot picks up a lot and is actually very interesting. The acting is good by all of the actors, none standing out in particular. And the effects are REALLY GOOD and could still fool the current-day viewer. The movie has a great ending which will not disappoint, although some of the pieces/dialogue in the film are not good. But, it is a recommended movie to watch for the visual effects (which would've stood out in 1958, and can still be good now) but, be prepared, it can be tedious in parts.

ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN has two things going for it: Allison Hayes (do the math); she's definitely a stand-out in her bed-sheet bikini (IF that's what it is), even if she IS a tad "transparent" throughout most of the movie (those parts that actually FEATURE her, that is: she spends far too much time OFF screen, if you ask me). Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't her hair change color when she "blossomed?" Most of the movie's as gorgeous as the star, and the music is often Great; only the not-so-special effects tend toward Low End Laughs. Storywise, ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN is a Tragedy: the Heroine gets f---ed over by her sorry-a-- husband, then ends up dead. So much for Happy Endings...

Monsters from the Id. This Movie came Late in the 1950's Sci-Fi Cycle but it Contains Much of the Decades Angst and Subconsciously Displays a Rich Array of the Era's Fears and Uncomfortable Social Conventions.The Poster...Wonderfully Prolific Artist Reynold Brown Designed this Classic and it Contains an Ultra-Sexy, Larger than Life, Voluptuous Woman Straddling an Iconic Freeway and that Most Descriptive of Eisenhower Prosperity and Abundance, the Automobile.Pubescent Boys...Baby Boomers who Watched Allison Hayes in this Movie in the Back Seat of a Car at the Drive-In or Seated in a Balcony at the Local Movie-Theatre, or on TV, Certainly were made all Tingly by the Sight of this Sexy Woman in Revealing Cleavage and Skin Tight Clam-Diggers. That Definitely Contributed to the Pleasurable Memories and Added to the Cult Fever for the Film.Flying Saucers...Here for some Unknown Reason were Called Satellites (the Sputnik fear), and the Term is Spoken Many Times as if to Shout it to the World. The Most Eerie Part Takes Place inside the Sphere Transposing Low-Budget Corrugated Cardboard, Goldfish Bowls, and Fog into a Surreal Scene. It Includes Diamonds as Fuel for The Flying Saucer and are there as Reminder (probably unintentionally) of the Decades Opulence.Radiation...Another Movie where that Unleashed Cancer Causer Transfigured a Benign Creature into a Monster.Female Bondage (Housewives and a Woman's place)...Although Unintentional, it Manifested an Underlying Feminine Fear of Subjugation and Restriction. The 50 Foot Woman is Literally put in Chains and Doped Up.Overall, a Movie that Reaches Things on such a Subconscious Level can't Help but be Remembered, Embraced, Nervously Laughed At, Ridiculed, Loved and Hated. But the Lasting Legacy of the Film Really says More about Ourselves than the Movie's Competence or Lack Thereof.Besides All of that Mumbo-Jumbo, the Movie is a Hoot.