Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Not of This Earth (1957)

Allied Artists
Directed by Roger Corman
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Shout Factory)

An alien who wears a suit and sunglasses needs transfusions of human blood to survive. The streets of Hollywood provide plenty of opportunities. He hypnotizes a local doctor into helping him find a cure for his blood disease, and in the process saves his planet. A pretty nurse also comes under his spell. In the end, he turns into a flying umbrella which lands on some poor guy's head and sucks his blood out. Corman must have saved a ton of money by having the aliens communicate telepathically: he has endless scenes of them walking around the streets with narration of their conversations.

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