While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

I never understand what the people who wrote these old sci-fi movies were thinking.Do they think that science fiction means that all the science should be fiction?I don't get it.So America has sent a spaceship to Mars and it cracked up before crash landing on the red planet.They send a second ship to see what happened and for some reason the second ship is full of elderly astronauts.Since sci-fi movies require some lame love story angle, they have sent two women along.The women are doctors who can do anything but spend most of their time serving food to the men, like women should.The ship is stocked with enough guns,ammo and grenades to win a war(they even have a bazooka)because you need that stuff on Mars.I could list all the other stuff they had on the ship but I don't have a few spare days.There's plenty of gravity in space, at one point two of the men go outside and walk on the side of the ship.But the worst part is that they kill It by removing all the oxygen from the ship.That's right, Martians breathe oxygen.Ugh.To top it all off, it's another movie title that is completely false.Nevermind where "beyond space" is, you know where it is.Just know that It never leaves space.This movie is too stupid to ever be seen by anyone.I gave it a second star because it wasn't boring.

Still, this is a notch above the level of most science fiction films of the late 1950s. It's all about the monster coming down to earth from Mars, and it's illegal alien is quite scary looking. Naughty acids reminding me of the alien of the later Sigourney Weaver film, however this one is just as deadly. Several crew members on a spaceship are mysteriously attacked and found dead, and when the monster is finally discovered, it's up to the remaining crude to try to disturb it out of hiding and annihilated. Marshall Thompson is the original only surviving crew member of a trip to Mars. And the bring it back accidentally, and now he must somehow help fellow astronauts find and destroy his creature before it destroys them. Dabbs Greer, best known for "Little House on the Prairie" and later an excellent small role in the Tom Hanks film "The Green Mile" is excellent as the ship's captain.Moderately fast paced yet brimming with excellent special effects, this is certainly an a-lister among them a science fiction film that were being tossed out of Hollywood at the time.the rest of the cast is mainly unknowns but their sincere performances helpful or the audience that this isn't the type of silly film that Roger Corman was turning out by the dozen per year during this time.not every science fiction film needed to be of camp value, and this one is definitely a must for students of science fiction who want to see the flow of how Hollywood. Today from where was back when the drive-in was the main destination on a weekend Summer night for teenagers running in the escape.

I also saw this at the movie theater when first released. I have always felt it was one of the better 50' sci-fi movies. But I must say it is not for everyone, my wife watched it with me a few years ago on TV and could not understand my love of this movie. I thought then and still do now that for a limited budget, scenes mainly only on a spaceship that the movie was totally enjoyable. I must also say I remember the leading actress, a very beautiful woman who to me looked like Janet Leigh when she was in Psycho. All the male actors gave very professional performances for,again, a 50's sci-fi movie. If you do enjoy these types of movies, please give this one a look.

It's the 1950's. Even Women Astronauts must Serve the Coffee and Sandwiches. Even on Interplanetary Voyages the Men must Pack 45's, Grenades, Bazookas, and Dynamite just in case there is a Commie around the Corner or in this Case on Mars.So Now that the Dated and Anachronistic Elements are Given there Obligatory Hahas, what is here is a Definite Sci-Fi Thriller that has a Claustrophobic and Terrifying Scenario and Builds to a Do or Die Climax that is Befitting in its Conceit and the Movie Managed to Scare Kids and Influence Future Films (Alien 1979).The Use of Shadows and the Rather Horrifying Creature Dragging His Astronaut Victims into Crawl Spaces, Storage Rooms, and in One Case the Nuclear Core that is an Effective Low Budget Triumph, all Add to the Doom Laden Story that Never Lets Up on the Strife and Situational Concerns. Crew Members are Disabled, Infected with an Alien Virus, Ripped to Shreds and Sucked Dry of Their Precious Bodily Fluids. The Alien Pulverizes Steel Doors and is Impervious to Bullets, Electricity, and Gas. There is No Place to Run or Hide. That's Quite a Lot of Tension and a Scary Situation for the Astronauts and as the Ending Informs Us, there was a Two-Thirds Loss of Life and "Another name for Mars is Death". Are We having some Fifties Sci-Fi Fun Yet?