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Brilliant and touching

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

The Incredible Melting Man is a less than fantastic 70's B grade sci fi/horror flick. Astronaut Steve West returns from a space mission from Saturn and the results of the mission killed off his compatriots, but somehow Steve survives and escapes from the hospital turning into a man who's skin is melting, looking like a walking pizza that has a craving for human flesh. The best thing about this film is the make up f/x by Rick Baker. The acting, direction and overall quality of the film is pretty bad. The story is played out in typical slasher fashion and is by in large a pretty boring movie. I normally like movies from this time period that are in the splatter genre, but this film in question dosen't really stand out much and hasn't aged well.

The Incredible Melting Man is a movie with the slenderest plot imaginable: a man called Steve West develops a condition which causes his flesh to liquefy and drip off. He goes on the run killing people until the film ends. That's it."TIMM" (I'm not writing out those words any more than I have to) might have worked if this flimsy situation was padded out with some emotion. The title character only appears in the film as a recognisable human being for the first 2-3 minutes. Pretty soon after that he's a shambling, people-eating ghoul with no dialogue and only a wheezy laboured breathing noise to act with. If the character of Steve West had been given any kind of personality, we could have sympathised, or at least cared just a little bit about him and his predicament, but he has no character whatsoever. The film only seems to exist to showcase the gory attacks and the disgusting melt effects, both of which are well done, although as usual it's easy to spot when we are seeing the actor's real eyes through the gloop and when we are seeing a very different looking one plop out.The movie is full of very poorly acted and staged scenes. Steve West starts out confined to a hospital, but when a screaming nurse dashes out of his room, she is next seen running through what looks like a huge hangar/warehouse/cold storage corridor. Which is also deserted. Later on, two main characters are seen being driven along this same corridor on some kind of automated moving platform, going past chicken wire screen doors covering vast chambers of giant machinery, venting and blinking lights. What was the name of this "hospital" again? A scene involving a fisherman ends with a very nasty scene of a severed head breaking open on rocks - great effects, though. A painfully bad scene of hide and seek with three child actors really grates on the viewers patience, as does an even worse scene of a doddery old couple in a car talking about oranges and lemons. As does the scene where a young couple are attacked at home and the director thought it would be good to show the woman going into an unconvincing meltdown for many, many frames of pointless screen time.It is possible to watch TIMM just for the gore and the gloop, but along with this you have to endure the poorness of a fake eye falling out, the ineptness of the actor keeping his arm inside his shirt to simulate not having one, and the fact the Steve West's body seems overall a lot larger and fatter after he starts dissolving than it was before, due to the makeup having to be applied over a normal, non-melting actor. Add to that all of the terrible scenes of non-horror that pad out the running time, and you've got an experience not really worth sitting through.

When I was a kid growing up in Glasgow, Scotland, in the eighties, there was this video shop on Alexandra Parade that displayed all sorts of films that looked terrifying to my tiny mind. The priest with the bloody head on the cover of The Boogeyman, the lady being eaten by worms coming out of her shower on the cover of Squirm, and of course the cover of the Incredible Melting Man.Finding nothing better to do in my adulthood, I have sought out all of the above (and countless more) and can say that the disparity between projected terror and the actual hilarity of the film itself is rather large. This film is bad, but it's also great! In a bad way.They have quite a good idea for a movie monster, then just send him wandering out into the wilderness while the worst man hunt in history takes place. Half-arsed? No arsed. These (two!) guys get tired and need snacks/booze and one of them even has a nap! Brilliant.So we've got an astronaut who looked at the sun through the rings of Saturn and is now melting and leaving bits of himself all over the countryside while chowing down on people. It's so much funnier than it sounds. He just wanders about while another guy kind of follow his piles of goo while shouting his name (it's Steve) while also continually introducing himself to everyone too (his name is Ted Benson - get used to hearing that by the way).You've also got smoking kids, fat nurses running through glass in slow motion, old people being annoying, an amazing hilarious end to our monster, and so on and so forth. This is a great bad movie. I never get tired of watching it!

There are far worse movies out there than The Incredible Melting Man. By all means it is a very bad movie, but it is fun to watch in the way that Monster A-Go Go, Manos: The Hands of Fate and most of Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders(also used in the MST3K series)aren't. The movie isn't all bad, the make-up is good, there is one inventive death scene and the title character's melting is handled quite decently if perhaps rather drawn out. Other than the make-up, The Incredible Melting Man isn't that well made at all, it has a rather dated, schlocky look to it. The music is very 70s and that could have added to the movie's charm if it had been used well, instead it is very cheesy-sounding and just doesn't fit with what is going on at all. The dialogue is crass at best and my eyes are hurting from me rolling my eyes so much, while the story is paper thin and ridiculously padded out. It has some entertaining scenes, but mainly because they were so unintentionally funny, unfortunately there were so many that it did become stupid and tiresome after a while. There's not much that is really all that scary or inventive either, while you feel nothing but dislike for all of the characters and the acting is really weak, some like the nurse overact while the rest are like zombies. To conclude, very bad but kind of fun in an unintentional sort of way. 3/10 Bethany Cox