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W. Lee WilderPhantom From Space (1953)

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An alien being lands in Santa Monica. Killing two people who attacked him due to the menacing appearance of his spacesuit, the creature takes it off while being pursued by government authorities, revealing himself to be invisible


This movie is part of the collection: Sci-Fi / Horror

Director: W. Lee Wilder
Producer: W. Lee Wilder
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w
Language: english
Keywords: Sci-Fi

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: bestpbx - - February 24, 2009
Subject: Fairly good movie.
I agree with drdee51, the fact that we don't know where the alien comes from helps the story. In fact it does not matter where he is from or why he is here... he is not like us and he has caused the deaths of at least two people and ultimately he lost his own life by coming here. It is a nice little sci-fi treat.
I have seen far worst films.

Reviewer: drdee51 - - February 7, 2009
Subject: Something Different
This film is, of course, made on a low budget. This alone may alienate viewers from the current generation. However, this film gives evidence to the fact that you do not need a big budget and meaningless fancy special effects to make a good film whose only goal is to tell you a good concrete story. In this film, we have an alien who we ultimately discover has crashed on this planet. He did not come here to attack us. Where he is from is not explained nor is that necessary to know for the story. In fact, it helps the story by accenting the xenophobia of the Earth people he encounters as he wonders around trying to solve his problem of being marooned here. The poor guy just wants to get rescued by his own folks and get the hell out of here. The Earth people chase him, attack him and assume he is up to no good. Now, the Earther's fear is stimulated by his killing some folks who attacked him first and his spacesuit is causing some annoying disturbances. The ending is sad in that the poor guy dies due to running out of air he can breathe as the Earth folks stand there looking at him feeling mighty foolish for what they have done.
PS- No one flicks a cigarette butt on his corpse.

Reviewer: jazzfan - - March 26, 2008
Subject: Am I The Only One Having Trouble Downloading This?
WTF!

Reviewer: Mark and Lola - - October 17, 2007
Subject: Be fair
This is a product of its time, I'm sure the production crew and actors made enough out of it to help pay the rent and put food on the table.

If you want to get away from the "wham-bam", "glitz. and glam." of 21st century computer enhanced shows, the 1950s is the place to look.

As a spectator I like it, and its eria

Mark

Reviewer: terracesider - - January 29, 2007
Subject: Why, what and wherefore?
My gripe with this film is that it quickly establishes some interesting questions and then leaves them unanswered. So, at the end, I had no idea where this alien was from, for what reason he was attacking earth, or why he was launching the attack on his own. Either poor scriptwriting or my attention wandered.

For those who liked this film, the same director's Killers From Space is also available on archive.org.

Reviewer: billbarstad - - December 19, 2006
Subject: Boring
In this very low budget film, a close encounter story is presented as if it were based on actual police, military and federal reports. The alien loses his ship, kills two men, maybe starts an oil field fire, fails in his attempts to communicate, runs around an observatory complex a lot and dies leaving no proof of being here. A wasted effort on his part. A unimaginative effort by the film makers. No Mulder and Scully to make it interesting.

I downloaded the mpeg1 file. Audio and video are good.

Reviewer: J.F. - - December 14, 2006
Subject: not the best of the worst
The last scene in this movie says it all,.. where one of the charachters lights up a cigerette and chucks the match at the 'creature' they just killed--as if to say--thank the universe this movie is finished!

Reviewer: jimelena - - December 13, 2006
Subject: California Scifi
This sort of thing happens a lot in California, invisible space men etc.
Probably because of their proximity to Japan.
Just another reason to avoid the west coast.