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I Married a Monster from Outer Space starts as Bill Farrell (Tom Tyron) drives home after a night out with his friends, Bill is due to marry his fiancé Marge (Gloria Talbot) the following day but is abducted & replaced by an alien creature that takes Bill's form & place. Bill & Marge marry as planned but Marge become suspicious of her new husband Bill, a year later(!) she decides to follow Bill one night & sees him turn into an alien & enter it's hidden spaceship in the woods. Shocked Marge tries to inform the authorities about the alien invaders but discovers that the most important men in town have all been replaced by alien doubles including the Chief of Police. Marge confronts Bill who admits that he is part of an alien race that is dying out & they have come to Earth to mate with women to save their race from extinction, Marge sets out to stop them & make a disbelieving world take notice of her...Produced & directed by Gene Fowler Jr. this Paramount Pictures production has one of the more memorable titles for a 50's sci-fi alien invasion film & while I wasn't expecting too much from it I did like it, it's not amazing but if your a fan of these old black and white 50's alien invasion flicks then you could do a lot worse than I Married a Monster from Outer Space. There's a bit more going on here than usual, there's the whole subtext about the communist threat which was so prevalent in films back then, the fears about marriage & the problems that can arise, the strength of human emotions & at only 77 minutes long it's pretty brisk & doesn't hang around. While the script isn't deep or has much substance it does try to touch a few ideas like paranoia & a stealthy invasion based on replacing people & fitting in as normal rather than an all guns blazing attack. The film has dated somewhat, a married couple sleeping in twins beds after a year of marriage yet are still together? Surely one of them would have expected a little bit of action after a year? Couples have divorced for less. The quaint small town paranoia feels old & the aliens don't seem to have any great plan, it's been a year & they haven't managed to get any ladies pregnant yet so why are they still hanging around? The script tries to paint the aliens as sympathetic, despite being ugly aliens in their true form when in human form they try to reason calmly & are presented as a desperate race on the verge of extinction although kidnapping men, replacing them & trying to get our women pregnant isn't the way they should have gone about things...The special effects here aren't that bad, the smoke effect that covers the men when they are being abducted is good while the alien monsters themselves look alright with a strange glow to them. I am not sure about the long dangling arms or the three fingers but they look OK for the time. Well shot with the odd creepy bit here & there the ending features some quite gory alien meltdowns as they are killed off & even some blood spurting. While watching I Married a Monster from Outer Space I realised that bachelor parties & the attitudes towards marriage sure have changed in the past fifty years!With a supposed budget of about $175,000 this was partly filmed at the ever popular Bronson Canyon in Los Angeles, surely one of the worlds most used film locations. The acting is alright if a little wooden as expected, nothing great but not terrible.I Married a Monster from Outer Space is a fun little 50's sci-fi horror about the importance of marriage the idea of conforming to society, it's outdated & silly but overall I quite liked it for what it is. Remade as I Married a Monster (1998) which is apparently terrible.

On the eve of his wedding, Bill (Tom Tryon) is abducted by aliens and an alien living in a facsimile of his human body returns to marry Marge (Gloria Talbott). She notices his change right away ("he's not the man I fell in love with" she writes in a letter) and, after a year of fruitless marriage, begins uncovering this secret alien invasion. This sci-fi flick has some really good moody scenes in it and, while not at the level of something like THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, it still delivers a strong allegory. Director Gene Fowler Jr. (I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF) has a nice way of revealing the aliens and their abduction attacks are really well done. The alien design is also pretty cool too. It only runs 78-minutes, so don't expect anything epic during the final showdown, but it is worth a watch.

The surprise of this little sci-fi epic is GLORIA HENRY, who manages to convey all the right expressions as the wife who comes to realize that her husband is no longer the man she married. TOM TRYON is the man who early on is attacked by an alien who takes over his body. From then on, Tryon's robot-like acting fits the demands of his role beautifully, since he only has one expression on his impossibly handsome face at all times. Talk about one-dimensional! He looks like a department store mannequin come to life--almost. It's a good thing he had a career as a Gothic writer ahead of him.However, it's the tight script, the crisp B&W photography, the jagged bits of music, and the eerie plot that bears more than a slight resemblance to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" that is guaranteed to keep you awake--even though it is obviously a B-film with no big pretensions to be anything else.***** Possible SPOILER Ahead*****It's another one of those tales where the poor wife dares not trust any of the citizens of a small town--since any one of them might have turned into an alien, like her hubby. The plot builds to a nice climactic shootout and her husband is returned to her. We know he's assumed his own body again because he actually breaks into a grin before the fadeout.Summing up: Brisk, entertaining little sci-fi tale, the kind that was popular with audiences in the '50s.

Directed by Gene Fowler Jr. and B flick in every way. A vintage thriller with mediocre special effects and familiar stars from Saturday Matinée movies. Marge(Gloria Talbott)has so looked forward to her wedding day. Her sweetheart Bill(Tom Tryon)seems to be a total stranger on the honeymoon; and after a year of marriage she is bewildered with the coolness of her husband and concerned enough to see her doctor wondering why she hasn't become pregnant yet. Marge you see has married a monster-like alien from outer space, who is part of a group trying to conquer earth.Predictable, but a whole lot better than some other Sci-Fi releases of the same period. No magnetism between Talbott and Tryon, but then again the script doesn't really require such. Other familiar faces in the cast: Robert Ivers, Ken Lynch, Ty Hardin, John Eldridge and Alan Dexter.