
It Came from Outer Space
Fantastic sights leap out at you!
Directed by Jack Arnold
Produced by Universal Pictures
A 1950s sci-fi thriller about an alien arrival that explores small-town xenophobia and paranoia through the eyes of an outsider trying to warn his community of an unknown threat.
Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
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Is It Came from Outer Space one of a kind? Yes, very. More singular than 93% of films.
Is It Came from Outer Space scary? Yes. More frightening than 76% of films.
Is It Came from Outer Space sad? Not especially. Less sad than 67% of films.
Is It Came from Outer Space violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.
Does It Came from Outer Space end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.
Is It Came from Outer Space easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.
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