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It! The Terror from Beyond Space

The revelation shocker of things to come!

Jul. 31, 1958

01:09:00

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Overview:

The first manned expedition to Mars is decimated by an unknown life form which stows away on the rescue ship.

Director: Edward L. Cahn, Ralph E. Black

Writer: Jerome Bixby

Cast: Ray Corrigan, Dabbs Greer, Ann Doran, ...

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Tags: Monster

Keywords: Alien, Spaceship, Rescue Mission, ...

Description

In 1973, a nuclear-powered spaceship blasts off from Mars for Earth, bringing with it the sole survivor of the first mission, Col. Edward Carruthers (Marshall Thompson). He is suspected of having murdered the other nine members of his crew for their food and water rations, on the premise that he had no way of knowing if or when an Earth rescue mission would ever arrive. Carruthers denies this allegation, attributing his crew\'s deaths to a hostile humanoid life form on the Red Planet.

Commander Col. Van Heusen is unconvinced and makes sure that Carruthers is constantly accompanied by another member of his crew. While the ship was on the Martian surface, an emergency hatch had been left open, allowing the creature easy access. The crew are at first skeptical that something crawled aboard while they were on Mars. However, when Kienholz investigates odd sounds coming from a lower level, he is killed and his body hidden in an air duct. Next is Gino Finelli. He is found, barely alive, but the creature attacks his would-be rescuer. Bullets have no effect, forcing the crewman to leave Gino behind, much to the distress of his brother Bob. An autopsy of Kienholz\'s body reveals that it has been sucked dry of all fluids.

The crew use hand grenades and gas grenades, but the creature proves to be immune to both. They next try electrocution, also with no effect. When \"It\" is tricked into going into the spaceship\'s atomic reactor room, they shut the heavily shielded door and expose the creature directly to the ship\'s nuclear pile. It easily crashes through the door and escapes. The creature is so strong that it can tear through the metal hatches separating each of the ship\'s levels. The survivors (except for an injured crewman, who is trapped below in a spot inaccessible to the creature) retreat to the control room on the topmost deck. When Carruthers notices the ship\'s higher-than-normal oxygen consumption rate, he surmises that this is due to the creature\'s larger lung capacity, needed for the thin Martian atmosphere. In a last desperate move, everyone puts on their spacesuits, and Carruthers opens the command deck\'s hull airlock directly to the vacuum of space. A violent decompression follows, and the plan works: \"It\" suffocates and finally expires, stuck part way through the final hatch.

A press conference is later held on Earth, revealing the details of what happened aboard the rescue ship. The project director emphasizes that Earth may now be forced to bypass the Red Planet \"because another word for Mars is death\".

Director: Edward L. Cahn Ralph E. Black

Writer: Jerome Bixby

Cast: Ray Corrigan Dabbs Greer Ann Doran Paul Langton Shirley Patterson Marshall Thompson Richard Benedict Robert Bice Kim Spalding Richard Hervey Thom Carney

Tags: Monster

Keywords: Alien, Spaceship, Rescue Mission, Voice Over Narration, Monster, Grenade, Expedition To Mars, Rocket Ship, Man Versus Monster, Death Of Brother, Press Conference, Airlock, Spacesuit, Spaceship Captain, Spacewalk, Year 1973, No One Believes The Protagonist, Outer Space, Race Against Time, Accused Of Murder, Welding Torch, Oxygen Deprivation, Air Conditioning Shaft, Mars The Planet, Exclamation Point In Title, Bomb, Illness, Physician, Rescue, Love Triangle, Autopsy, Chess, Court Martial, Gas Mask, Gun, Explosion, Cigarette Smoking, Corpse, Skull, Missing Person, Roll Call, Superhuman Strength, Suffocation, Infection, Blood Transfusion, Nuclear Reactor, Electrocution, Decompression Chamber, Space Vampire

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