← Back to Reviews
in
Not of This Earth (Roger Corman, 1957)
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones
Genre: Sci Fi, Thriller
About: A mysterious man in dark sun glasses is secretly gathering blood from victims that he meets on the streets. He himself is an alien from a dying planet called Davana. His mission is to determine if human blood can save the lives of the Davana's, who have poisoned their own blood with nuclear radiation from a prolonged war. If the human's blood is compatible, they will be put out to pasture for blood harvesting.
Review: In the 1950's director/producer Roger Corman produced film after film, all B budget movies. Mostly they made a big profit. Not of This Earth..deserves a better reputation than just another B movie. It has a lot of creepy vibe going for it and the premise is pretty nifty and it's suspenseful too.
Plus it has two of the great character actors of the late 50's. Beverly Garland who plays the live-in nurse who's hired to transfuse blood to the alien in dark glasses, John Birch. The other is a very unlucky traveling vacuum salesman, Dick Miller, who worked in a lot of Corman's films.
I did think the alien bat-face hunger creature was a little silly, but it did remind me of the scene from Alien. So I guess nothing is really ever new, as it was done here first.
Not of This Earth (Roger Corman, 1957)
Cast: Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones
Genre: Sci Fi, Thriller
About: A mysterious man in dark sun glasses is secretly gathering blood from victims that he meets on the streets. He himself is an alien from a dying planet called Davana. His mission is to determine if human blood can save the lives of the Davana's, who have poisoned their own blood with nuclear radiation from a prolonged war. If the human's blood is compatible, they will be put out to pasture for blood harvesting.
Review: In the 1950's director/producer Roger Corman produced film after film, all B budget movies. Mostly they made a big profit. Not of This Earth..deserves a better reputation than just another B movie. It has a lot of creepy vibe going for it and the premise is pretty nifty and it's suspenseful too.
Plus it has two of the great character actors of the late 50's. Beverly Garland who plays the live-in nurse who's hired to transfuse blood to the alien in dark glasses, John Birch. The other is a very unlucky traveling vacuum salesman, Dick Miller, who worked in a lot of Corman's films.
I did think the alien bat-face hunger creature was a little silly, but it did remind me of the scene from Alien. So I guess nothing is really ever new, as it was done here first.