the incredible melting man
shock splats out 9 shots from the 1977 gore classic the incredible melting man .
the title promises a melting man and damn it, we get a man who is melting .
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is manhandled onto power lines by the incredible melting man. instead of merely being electrocuted
the incredible melting man - review by screaming soup! (season 2 ep. 18 )
please note the following review is for the arrow uk blu ray release of the incredible melting man .
the incredible melting man (1977) cited by special makeup effects artist rob bottin as influence .
shock splats out 9 awesome images from the incredible melting man. and almost 40 years later…they’re still pretty repellent !
• as the man who accidentally drinks hulk' s blood in the incredible hulk .
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ironically, unbeknownst to the crew, incredible melting man was also put through the wringer by its producers, and the director wound up loving the episode .
and then you melt. i liked the melting man gimmick. kudos to rick baker .
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when the melting man kills a character who resembles bill gates .
i' m melting: well, obviously. though it must be said that the melting man seems to melt at the speed of plot .
the melting man' s death scene is particularly gruesome, though. (but hilarious! )
mystery science theater 3000: the incredible melting man (1996) (tv episode) mike: up ahead is the alien 3 set, robocop and terminator 2 .
even if the incredible melting man were deliberately retro, re - creating the look and feel of a stultifying drive - in undercard isn' t exactly a laudable achievement .
before the word splatter was officially part of the cinematic lexicon, writer / director william sachs trashy galactic gore gem the incredible melting man was defying audiences not to lose their collective lunches .
although the footage apparently no longer exists, here is a still i scanned from my stash of jonathan demme' s (mpaa - deleted) disemboweling from the incredible melting man .
ted nelson was found alive, and of normal size. there was no melting man .
melting man looks at his reflection. mike “i think it’s starting to clear up a little. ”
stands by and does absolutely nothing while the melting man overpowers the sheriff and subsequently tosses him into some power lines .
title is similar to the incredible shrinking man but the incredible melting man has none of that inventiveness or ingenuity. it is more like a nostalgic, cheesy fun ride. those who love cinema' so baaad it' s good' (like this reviewer) will get the most out of this shout! factory
in closing, if you ever asked the question: what would happen if you took a 50’s monster movie and added 70’s smarm what would you get? the answer is the incredible melting man .
dr. ted nelson was found alive and of normal size. there was no melting man .
10. the news report from culver university in the incredible hulk can also be seen on a screen at the end of iron man 2 .
more from scream factory theatrical trailers for life force (1: 27), the incredible melting man (1: 04), and invaders from mars (1: 28) .
i always get a good laugh early in the film when the melting man is chasing the chunky nurse and when they show it from the melting man’s pov it’s obvious the camera is on a rail, when servo pipes up that he’s chasing her on roller blades .
pretty much mixed reviews on amazon, but they have mostly one thing in common, most say the incredible melting man is just awful and would recommend you avoid it like the plague, ...
i do have to look away, though, when the melting man is on - screen. boy, that’s nauseating .
an antecedently unfashioned breviloquent telegenic pericope of recrementitious vernacular (2012) (short) the melting man from the toxic waste is mentioned .
from the very first frames, with a hair prominently caught in the film gate, you know you' re in for something special, and the incredible melting man (1977) delivers, not missing ...
in a similar way to the george a. romero / stephen king collaboration creepshow, the incredible melting man tries to recapture the comic book panel effect with a lot of its shots and angles, and it largely succeeds as william sachs obviously knows how to frame an image. it also helps that the look of the melting man is similar to the cartoonish zombies that you used to see in the likes of ec comics, so stylistically the incredible melting man hits its mark and is an obvious inspiration for movies such as robocop and any amount of neon - lit madness from troma .
danger takes a backseat: the melting man kills an elderly couple when he creeps into the back of their car before they come back .
check out this clip from the incredible melting man and buy the blu ray at: urltoken colonel steve west has just returned from an incredible history - making flight to saturn when he is hospitalized with an ailment that baffles the entire medical community. his flesh is melting and to stay alive he must consume human flesh and blood. the infected colonel west escapes from the doctors' supervision and hides in the surrounding community where he begins to hunt for human flesh. who can stop the incredible melting man? want more screams? subscribe here: urltoken check us out on facebook: urltoken follow us on twitter: urltoken
when the nurse (from being frightened by the sight of the melting man) smashes through the glass door out of the hospital, there is no stock smashing noise .
5. a clip of actor bill bixby, who played david banner in the incredible hulk tv show from the' 70s, can briefly be seen in 2008' s the incredible hulk .
the incredible melting man [ dvd ]: urltoken alex rebar, burr debenning, miron healey, michael aldredge, ann sweeney, cheryl smith, lisle wilson, william sachs, samuel w. gelfman: dvd & blu - ray
ted nelson is shot and killed while trying and failing to convince a security guard that the melting monster is a man in need of rescue .
sure, it' s hard out here for an incredible shrinking man. but it gets easier. the only thing that hurts is shrinking away from it .
the incredible, inedible melting man oozes nicely into the “cautionary tales of space travel” genre of monster a go go and night of the blood beast, except this one was made post - moon landing. it’s kinda the anti - 2001: a space odyssey .
check out the ‘70’s porn mustache on the title character in the movie opening before he starts melting .
: an oddly framed shot of the melting man walking through a forest with a branch in the foreground while dr. ted nelson calls for him. the riff :
“ted nelson was found alive, and of normal size. there was no melting man. ” (monster a - go go) .
there were a lot of steve’s in season 7. what with the “planet of the steve’s” in blood beast, and the melting steve here. was the brute man a steve ?
the melting man emil attempts to run robocop over with a van - but instead, the criminal runs head on into a vat of toxic waste. swept out the rear of the van, emil emerges from the steaming muck with the flesh melting off his hands and face .
bc watched two movies about people melting in the same day and wrote about it .
oh, my god, it' s his ear !
and so it goes with the incredible melting man, a piece of sci - fi cheese so pungent that it was honored with its very own mystery science theater 3000 episode .
my favorite has already been mentioned: “ted nelson was found alive, and of normal size – there was no melting man. ” – crow
in an intriguing coincidence, crow finally gets to direct his first feature film ,
earth vs. soup
, in between viewing the incredible melting man (1977), a film about a incredibly' 70s... see full summary »
regrettably i' ll be aping the consensus on this one. apart from rick baker' s awe - inspiring, excellent makeup effects (
incredible melting man
more or less marking the beginning of a brilliant career; good thing this movie didn' t prematurely kill it) ,
the incredible melting man
is horrendous, unpleasant viewing, a confused mess of a monster movie that seems to awkwardly stumble toward being a straight horror movie before stumbling back to a parody / homage of creature features .
in 2007 damian ortega presented his installation “man is the controller of the universe” at the daad gallery .
so a word to the b - movie wise. if you can get past the flat delivery when burr debenning dolefully intones ,
oh god. it' s his ear !
without braying with laughter, then you' re probably missing the point of the incredible melting man .
i want them screaming that they have been plagued and deformed by the ills of science. i want the incredible melting man to shake his degenerating fist at the heavens, and i want swamp thing to weep bitter tears for his lost humanity into fetid, swamp - infested water .
6. the voice of bruce banner from the' 60s hulk cartoon, paul soles, plays the owner of the pizza shop in the incredible hulk .
there' s a powerful temptation to say that you never thaw a movie as foolish as “the incredible melting man. ” but the fact is that each spring brings similar releases to fill the need of drive‐in operators for something cheap to put on the screen for the kids in the cars to ignore or laugh at .
the incredible melting man is a cheeseball 1977 american sci - fi horror film about an astronaut who is exposed to outer - space radiation and then comes back transformed into a hideous monster. the good news is that unlike the last time this happened, there really is a monster here !
miami - based artist augusto esquivel designed these incredible fun fair - inspired button sculptures from hanging strips .
“it’s a glop movie, ” writer - director william sachs admits with a shrug on the special features of the incredible melting man, his hilariously misbegotten 1977 science - fiction / horror movie. and this is absolutely true: the main reason the incredible melting man still gets talked about in cult circles—beyond being mocked in the seventh season of mystery science theater 3000 —are the gloppy makeup effects by the legendary rick baker. the “melting man” of the title, an astronaut who returns home infected from a voyage to saturn’s rings, stumbles around the movie like an unlicked ice - cream cone left in the summer sun, french vanilla and raspberry swirl pouring from the top. this isn’t refined, subtly detailed makeup artistry—it’s blood and pus applied with a trowel. the word “vat” is used more than once in reference to baker’s materials .
- the grand opening: part 2 (1977)... man # 1
- the grand opening: part 1 (1977)... man # 1
then of course, there is the film’s hilariously grisly conclusion where the puddle that once was mr. west receives an unceremonious disposal. as sachs himself said when discussing ‘the incredible melting man”s horror - comedy origins, “how can a serious horror movie end with the monster being shovelled into a garbage can? ”
when the nurse enters the room of the melting man, she drops the blood containers and it splatters her shoes; then, as she runs away down the hallway, her shoes are completely clean. see more »
in an intriguing coincidence, crow finally gets to direct his first feature film ,
earth vs. soup
, in between viewing the incredible melting man (1977), a film about a incredibly' 70s physician trying to stop an astronaut from gradually turning into soup .
director william sachs originally intended the film to be a campy, comic book - type homage to old school monster movies. however, the producers wanted a more grim straight - forward horror picture. the clashing of ideas resulted in much of the off - beat (and occasionally bizarre) tone of the incredible melting man .
in his instagram post, nicotero mentions that viewers didn' t really get a good look at this walker during the carnival - centric rick and michonne episode, but you can view it in its full, gory glory below, along with an image from the incredible melting man for comparison .
shared on instagram (and initially reported on by bloody disgusting), nicotero' s new walker image shows a member of the living dead legion whose slimy, shiny skin and deformed facial features are an homage to rick baker' s amazing effects work on the incredible melting man (1977) .
28. during the new years eve scene at the beginning of iron man 3, tony stark drunkenly meets both professor yensin, who would later help him create the first iron man suit, as well as dr. chen lu, also known as the super villain radioactive man .
citizen kane (1941) a man passes away and only puzzled memories remain .
the seventies: nothing to clearly indicate it, but the score lifted from the incredible hulk and judy' s odd body shape give it away .
8. lou ferrigno, who played hulk in the the incredible hulk tv show from the' 70s, makes a cameo as a security guard .
swamp thing is out aug. 6 from scream! factory on dvd / blu - ray combo pack; the incredible melting man is out now on blu - ray from shout! factory. next week on dvdanger: we' ll be looking at all that heavenly glory with the bruce lee legacy collection .
( when melt’s eyes are melting) “and he still sees 20 / 20. ” – crow
tasteless or not, the melting man sequence scored highly with audiences - and with the ratings board. it was one of the scenes that the mfaa wanted to cut out. but the movie team fought like crazy to keep it in. one of their weapons was the fact that during some early screenings, the national research group had asked people what their favorite thing in the movie was - and the answer was the melting man. at that point certain people took a stand against the mpaa, because it just seemed ridiculous to cut out the one thing that audiences liked best! ultimately they won. actually, though, the melting man also rated highly as the least favorite thing in the movie. so it got a lot of reaction .
but the sad truth about the incredible melting man is this: it’s a compromised glop movie. working on the cheap for american international pictures, sachs claims he intended a winking nod to science - fiction comics from the 1950s, as well as classic monster movies, but his vision was so mangled by the producers that he nearly took his name off the film. in the decades since its release, the film has tasted the sweet nectar of infamy, spending some time on the imdb’s bottom 100 rankings, but it remains a guilty pleasure for some, particularly fans of baker’s old - school gross - out effects. he’s the real auteur of the incredible melting man, and the sole discernible reason a new special - edition blu - ray has found its improbable way into the world .
the incredible melting man was originally entitled the ghoul from outer space and yeah, i know what you' re thinking, and baker was thinking the same thing too. why the hell would anyone want to make a film called the ghoul from outer space in 1977? (double embarrassment for baker: this was his first gig after designing the cantina aliens for star wars. )
first published back in 1978, the novel for “the incredible melting man” was adapted from william sachs’s screenplay for the 1977 movie of the same title. the film draws heavily from both robert day’s 1959 movie “the first man into space” and irvin s yeaworth jnr’s 1958 sci - fi b - movie “the blob”. not exactly the most complex of plots, phil smith attempts to work from a film screenplay that relied heavily on the very talented rick baker’s gut churning special effects and make - up. with a simplistic
rarely do i watch anything covered by mst3k without the robots because most of the time they' re no good. unfortunately, the incredible melting man is also no good without riffing. the only thing the uncut version offers is more gore and cheryl
rainbeaux
smith' s breasts. the effects are pretty excellent, but they are used in the service of a poor ripoff of the quatermass experiment with a leading man who you' d like to see get killed as quick as possible. unless there' s a silouhette of a man and two robots in the corner of the screen, stay away .
nerdland (2016) robo wizard parodies robocop with the half - man, half - robot concept .
peep show: the man show (2004) (tv episode) mark and sophie watch the film on television .
the mechanical man (2011) (short) clips are seen in the montage of dillon watching videos about robots .
didn' t think this through: as the sheriff points out (right before he' s killed), dr. ted nelson apparently never considered what they would do if they ever caught up with the melting man .
but it' s definitely worth seeing, not just for the unintentional comedy (it doesn' t even need tom servo to be funny), but also for the early fx work by rick baker. apparently the actor playing incredible melting man was a pain in the ass and didn' t want to deal with baker' s more elaborate makeup ideas (which were also hindered by the budget and short production time), so he had to scale it back - but it' s still a pretty impressive getup, one that looks great in high def. incredible melting man is only seen in human form in his flashbacks; after about 20 minutes he already looks like ms. rose looks like in the 3rd act of
the halloween season which followed the film' s release brought at least two official merchandising products. collegeville produced a ready - to - wear children' s costume, and imagineering offered a melting man face make - up kit .
this is a middle of the road episode, like all of season 7 save laserblast. a nice double feature with say, the amazing colossal man or the amazing transparent man. and the host segments were much better than the standard mike - cc era fare .
the movie almost begs for' batman' - style sound - effect captions, but provided by don martin:' sklishity, skloshity!' when the melting man leaves his gluey footprints;' poit! when his eyeball plops to the ground .
to achieve the gruesome melting man monster, makeup effects artist rick baker fashioned a slightly over sized skull - shaped helmet for actor alex rebar to wear. the piece was painted flesh tone and then was cover by a gooey concoction of syrup and paint. the drippy substance would have to be re - applied for every take of the melting man. at the end of each shoot rebar would have so much of the sticky stuff on him that he would literally have to peel his costume off .
monsters: the family man (1990) (tv episode) small poster on boy' s bedroom wall .
emi’s two outfits the h - man. © 1959 columbia pictures industries, inc. dvd: columbia pictures .
designated hero: ted nelson doesn' t do a single heroic thing at all. hell, the woman who cut off one of melting man' s arms when he tries to kill her comes off as more heroic .
the lowdown director william ‘bill’ sachs originally envisioned his 1977 sci - fi the incredible melting man as a comic book spoof called the ghoul from outer space. he may have lost that fight, but his grisly humour is still very much evident; a turkey leg mistaken for a decapitated limb is a standout, as are the closing scenes in which steve’s liquefied remains gets unceremoniously shoveled into a rubbish bin .
the greatest attraction of the usa is the incredible diversity this country has to offer. enjoy the best of america from scenic coastlines and majestic mountains to vast prairies, desolate deserts and breathtaking canyons .
). luckily for me, the two films couldn' t be less alike - their melting protagonists are the only thing they share .
the grand canyon, yellowstone, arches and glacier national parks compete for your attention with the iconic sights and culture of san francisco, boston and new orleans. eastern energy, slow - paced deep southern charm and the laid back lifestyle of the west coast combine to create an incredible melting pot of virtually anything .
and i also find the scene where the old couple for some inexplicable reason opt for a moment of childish rebellion to steal some lemons only to be killed by the melting man. their attempts at being kittenish are so over - the - top i can’t help but laugh .
the italian title of this movie is' l' uomo di cera', which means' wax man' .
the performances are decent if unremarkable, and there is a half - hearted attempt at some ‘who’s the real monster? us or him? ’ cloying morality, but it falls flat. like many of the aforementioned 1950s movies from which ‘the incredible melting man’ so clearly draws its inspiration, once we’ve seen the monster in action its starring scenes quickly become all that we care about and the rest of the film becomes a tedious waiting process for our gore oozing protagonist to return to the screen .
from instagram :
this walker from this weeks episode was an homage to rick baker' s work in the incredible melting man and unfortunately you didn' t really get a chance to see it in the episode but kerrin jackson and kevin wasner did a great job on this i believe the sculpture was done by norman cabrera. i loved the thick layer of ultra ice that was added to make the veins look deep under the skin @ therickbaker @ somemonsterism
action survivor: a random woman is not only one of the few people to survive a close encounter with the melting man, but she' s also the only person in the entire film who manages to seriously wound it (by chopping off its arm) and drive it away .
liquefaction, turgidity, heat the h - man. © 1959 columbia pictures industries, inc. dvd: columbia pictures .
froggy liquid, puritan fire the h - man. © 1959 columbia pictures industries, inc. dvd: columbia pictures .
callback not listed by sampo: “i don’t follow you man. . no way” (san francisco international )
9. composer craig armstrong also gave a nod to the original tv show when he echoed
the lonely man theme
made popular by the family guy .
the incredible melting man (704): every episode of the show’s abbreviated, six - episode season is a home run, perhaps because they were stinging from the dual disappointments of the big screen version’s poor development process and comedy central’s disregard for what was once their flagship show. but this episode about a killer astronaut with serious skin problems, with its countless inexplicable moments (the overweight nurse running through a plate - glass door, the sexed - up retirees, and, best of all, the hysterical scene where a security guard shoots a defenseless man after he shouts “i’m ted nelson! ”), is the crown jewel .
and how bad is rebar as the titular decomposing astronaut? if you want a good reason to watch the incredible melting man, (and i' m not trying to give you one), it' s to prove that there' s a lot more to being a good movie monster than putting on a mask and schlepping around going
urg urg urg .
let' s just say rebar is no kane hodder .
the role of matt winters, the man ted kills after he kills general perry and leaves steve' s house, is played by jonathan demme .
13. the comic book dragon creature, fin fang foom, can be seen on a billboard for the golden dragon casino in iron man 2 .
anime abandon: 8 man after (2013) (tv episode )
sort of a proto - robocop .
steven west, astronaut from saturn, is melting. he must have human cells to survive. he is a living time bomb !
1. different versions of theme song from the' 60s iron man cartoon can be heard throughout iron man. once in the casino scene, once when tony stark and christine everhart get together, and again as tony stark' s ringtone on rhodey' s phone .
29. the rock - man thor battles at the start of thor: the dark world is korg the kronan, who appeared in the same comic book thor first appeared in, journey into mystery # 83 .
1977’s ‘the incredible melting man’ falls firmly in the b - movie category. steve west (alex rebar) is an astronaut and the lone survivor of a mission to saturn that saw the rest of his crew killed by an explosion of deadly radiation. upon his return to earth he is taken to hospital, where doctors are baffled as to how he was able to survive while his crew - mates perished. while alone, west removes his bandages and finds to his horror that his flesh is melting away. terrified and angry, he leaves the hospital – not before murdering a screaming nurse – and goes on the rampage, presumably driven insane by the increasingly sticky situation he finds himself in .
what to do with the incredible melting man except have him melt some more? the film - makers never really resolve this sticky problem once their burned - up astronaut busts out of hospital and, at a snail' s pace, starts eating the local population. this z - grade effort, lacking any low - budget energy, takes its cue from the central character: it' s tacky and bumbling and sinks into its own morass long before its subject finally dribbles apart, slurp, glub .
there was also another callback that might have been missed: as the melting man is being shown on a hill with the sunset beyond him – a typical ’70’s shot – you hear m & tb softly singing the love song from “the sidehackers”, “only love (pads the film) ”. i love it when they go way back on a reference !
still, even if the incredible melting man were deliberately retro, re - creating the look and feel of a stultifying drive - in undercard isn’t exactly a laudable achievement. it doesn’t seem that difficult to track down a slow - moving man - beast who leaves pools of glop (and facial features) wherever he goes, but poor dr. ted just pokes around with his geiger counter like a retiree trolling the beach with a metal detector. the events that pass between baker’s makeup effects are as arid and nondescript as the california valley on which they were shot. it helps to have mike, crow, and tom servo around as company .
okay, now for the bad stuff: the movie is also poorly written, dimly lit, loaded with uninteresting characters, and contains an extremely bad and unsatisfying ending in which nearly everyone with a speaking part dies and the incredible melting man melts. incredibly. and is thrown away by a janitor. the director wanted to do the movie as a parody, which could have indeed workedseveral things left in the final film even hint at this original planbut sadly, the studio forced him to turn it into a straight horror flick, resulting in the ludicrous mess moviegoers wound up seeing .
movie: (1977) upon his return to earth, an astronaut develops melting skin and murderous tendencies, and the authorities try to hush it all up .
i also never quite understood what incredible melting man hoped to achieve by killing folks every now and then. i thought there would be some sort of built in nonsense where he could consume flesh to slow / reverse the melting process, but he just gets worse throughout the film, despite racking up a decent body count (5 or 6). i guess he just went crazy, but there' s still a shred of his humanity in there as he saves nelson' s life in the climax, so i dunno. all i know is, nelson' s attempts to find / save him are limited to wandering around with a geiger counter every now and then, calling his wife to give vague status updates, and telling cops his name. and thanks to writer / director william sach' s bizarre idea that we shouldn' t know anything about incredible melting man until the end, there isn' t much to his character to make him sympathetic - if sachs had his way, what little we do know would have been revealed at the end, so it would have been 80 minutes of a random melting guy killing people while a vague friend of his tries to find him when he' s not scolding his wife for forgetting the crackers .
drive (1991) the driver continues :
and robocop and die hard and die harder and batman and every other white man movie .
rob bottin conceived, designed and fabricated the makeup, which was called
the melting man
in homage to rob' s earlier work with rick baker on a picture called
the incredible melting man .
the makeup was rob' s conception of what someone would look like dumped into hot waste. he decided to make emil literally melt, to have his whole face start to be pulled down by gravity instead of just going through the usual blisters - and - disintegration route. the look of that makeup suggests an actual drooping of all the muscles, as if they are starting to slide off emil' s skeleton. as the toxic waste cascades through emil' s truck, a stuntman wearing a fairly simple makeup is washed out of the van. the next cut picks up the first stage of bottin' s creation as actor paul mccrane staggers to his feet and realizes that he is literally failing apart .
# 52 – “callback not listed by sampo: “i don’t follow you man. . no way” (san francisco international) ”
incredible melting man is a delightfully bad 1977 sci - fi horror about ill - fated astronaut steve west who returns from a space mission exploring saturnâ (tm) s rings with a bizarre condition where his flesh is melting. for some reason, just as mystifying as to how he got this condition (there is a hint it was caused by viewing the sun through saturn' s rings but, never confirmed .), steve must consume human flesh to slow down the degeneration. and the hunt is on as west escapes the hospital and begins to chow down on the locals. the only positive things about this production is it' s heart is in the right place and the really cool melting / gore effects by future oscar winner / fx legend rick baker. the filmmakers are really trying hard here to deliver a new and horrifying movie monster but, the talent (aside from baker) is just not there behind or in front of the camera. the dialog is just as bad as the acting and the inept cast of unknowns stumbling around finding body parts both of the victims and the melting man, produce far more laughs then chills. i had fun when i saw this at the legendary oritani theater in hackensack, n. j. back in 77 and it was gleefully for all the wrong reasons. written and directed by william sachs who was responsible for the equally bad galaxina .
did you ever see that wonderful black - and - white movie from the 1950s ,
the incredible shrinking man
? the hero, scott carey, blond and tall, is sailing his boat in the ocean beneath an infinite sky. suddenly a mist appears and covers him with a radioactive dust. slowly, he goes from 6 feet to 3 feet to 3 inches to infinitesimal .
steven west, astronaut from saturn, is melting. he must have human cells to survive. he is a living time bomb! see more »
the incredible melting man is a decent b movie that displays some impressive special effects with a so - so storyline. this is one of those movies that should have been truly a memorable addition to the genre, but as it stands it' s a mildly entertaining film that should have been much better than the finished product. despite the so - so ideas on - screen, this is still a worthwhile film to watch due to effective effects, which are sure to please the most diehard gore hound. the film has a decent plot, but it could have been developed a bit more to really make this one stand out. i read that this film received a lot of flack; however i think it doesn' t deserve all the negativity it has received. this film despite all its imperfections is a benchmark in special effects design and influenced many films years later. there are no standout performances as this is more a horror film that is designed to be a vehicle for its effects. with a decent story that is of course predictable, but is a fun film for what it is. if you enjoy low budget schlock fests, then the incredible melting man is the film to watch. rick baker' s effects are the best aspect of the film, and really is the reason to watch the film. i enjoyed the film for what it was, and thought it was a really creative horror picture in terms of special effects, however the film could have benefitted from a rewrite in terms of storyline. adding more depth to the film' s story would have made the incredible melting man a standout horror picture. worth checking out and it is a gooey good time from start to finish despite its shortcomings .
when we choose to be here for god - - everywhere, always love, compassion and wisdom - - our ego shrinks without pain and our work becomes effortless. the more we choose to be here for ourselves, the greater our ego swells and the rest of the body, physical and mystical, suffers. either way, life says to us: you will become an incredible shrinking man .
4. a partially disassembled prototype of captain america' s shield can be seen in tony stark' s workshop in iron man .
8th man (1965) (tv series) cited by director paul verhoeven, writer edward neumeier and fx artist rob bottin as influence .
the plot concerns an astronaut (alex rebar) whose biochemistry is irrevocably altered by the sun' s rays reflected through the rings of saturn. the sole survivor of the failed space mission, he is treated on earth but soon begins to find himself with a case of very, very advanced leprosy, parts of his body dripping and falling off. the only remedy for lost cells, we' re told, is eating those of someone else. seems logical. thus we get a wanton path of blood and destruction from the
incredible melting man ,
with only dr. nelson and an ineffectual assortment of military and police to try to stop the thing .
first off, the film has all the production values of a mid - season episode of the six million dollar man. all the money went on hiring rick baker to create the melting man, although legend has it that that rebar refused to wear half the prosthetics, so that was cash well misspent. the money shot, when west collapses like a rotting gourd, is pretty spectacular. although, as baker says, considering that his assistants on this went to be a who' s who of 80s practical effects gurus, it' s a damn shame the rest of it doesn' t look that good .
† the new dvd gives us the choice of watching either the english - language version of the h - man or the japanese original. with a strange contempt, though, sony has retained the export title for the dvd menu of both versions, and has not even subtitled the japanese title when it appears on screen in the original version. here i’ve chosen to use its literal translation, in the shortened form of liquid human. to anglophone viewers, the “h” in the h - man is no doubt quite expressive (of the homo, the he - man, the human, and the h - bomb, not to mention horror and hell); but liquid human, in suspending the antitheses between definite / indefinite, singular / plural, and male / female, names something more fundamental to the film .
the first new horror creature before he turned his hand to lycanthropes in an american werewolf in london, shuffling zombies in the thriller music video and hostile extra - terrestrials in men in black, special effects legend rick baker lent his talents to the creation of another memorable horror creature. step forward, the incredible melting man! when spacecraft scorpio v returns to earth following a mission to saturn, two of the crew are dead and the third, astronaut steve west, is in a critical condition. critical, that is, until he rises from his hospital bed to bite chunks out of a nurse before escaping into the surrounding countryside. the authorities set about trying to track steve down before he claims any other victims, but they don’t know the really bad news yet - steve is also highly radioactive! the incredible melting man offers up a wealth of show - stopping b - movie moments in its relatively modest running time – chief among them, the scene in which a disembodied head floats down a river only to smash messily on the rocks further downstream – but the real star of the show here is baker’s ultra - icky special effects work which let you see the melting man’s transition in all its gooey, glistening glory. special edition contents: - high definition blu - ray (1080p) and standard definition dvd presentation of the feature, transferred from original film elements - original mono audio (uncompressed pcm on the blu - ray) optional english subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing audio commentary with william sachs - super 8 digest version of the film - interview with writer / director william sachs and make - up effects artist rick baker - interview with make - up effects artist greg cannom - reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by gary pullin - collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film and more !
i' m surprised there is no thread based on this. anywho scream factory is releasing a remastered bd release of the 1977 schlock cult sci - fi horror film
the incredible melting man
on july 28th with extras being commentary, interviews with rick baker and greg cannom, photo gallery and trailers. i hope this looks and sounds better than ever on hd, this movie is a guilty pleasure of mine since i was a kid when i rented it on video and i also enjoyed mst3k' s version of it as well. i also hope later this winter shout releases the mst3k version in the next boxset .
red dwarf: d. n. a. (1991) (tv episode) lister' s
man - plus
outfit is basically the same design as robocop .
community: pillows and blankets (2012) (tv episode) as the abed' s secret weapon, pierce is
part man, part pillow, all carnage .
there are so many mysteries to the incredible melting man. why, even after much of his skin has turned into irradiated suppurating lesions, does he still have eyebrows? why is he being treated in what looks like a warehouse? is this really the weirdest episode of storage wars ever? why does that nurse run through a glass door in slooooooow mooooottttiiiiooooon? how does that child not know the rules to hide and go seek? why are there only three people involved in a government hunt for a flesh - eating astronaut? why does doctor nelson' s wife invite all three over for a dinner party ?
beyond the makeup and gore effects, the most distinctive element of the incredible melting man is how much of a throwback it is to z - grade 1950s science fiction, to the point where it barely resembles a movie from 1977. if not for the gore, a bit player doffing her top (courtesy of american international pictures, no doubt), and some weird, almost avant - garde touches on the soundtrack, nobody would be able to tell the difference. the space effects are stock footage of a completely different grain from the rest of the movie, but the wooden performances are what stands out. sachs actually likens healey to character actor turned spoof legend leslie nielsen, but the entire cast reads their lines as if marlon brando and method acting had never happened. it’s so uncanny that it almost feels deliberately retro .
as you’ve more than likely concluded, ‘the incredible melting man’ is centered around a ridiculous premise worthy of the schlockiest 1950’s drive - in fodder. it would be an entirely forgettable piece were it not for one key element – the special effects and make - up of one of the all - time great monster maestros, rick baker. baker’s work is, as ever, exemplary and west’s deterioration looks both realistic and grotesque in the extreme. unfortunately while this means that the (far too few) scenes with west hold your attention and provide some gross - out chills, it also highlights just how boring the rest of the film is, with long drawn - out dialogue scenes of doctors and military personnel talking and essentially saying nothing .
not surprisingly, the film has a minor cult following and appeared as an episode of the always amusing film - riffing show ‘mystery science theatre 3000’ – and if you’re going to check the film out, i’d suggest that is the version to go for as you’ll both get to see the truly great make - up effects and be kept entertained during the long lulls in monster activity. it also frequently appears in the imdb ‘bottom 100 of all time’ list – an inauspicious distinction that i don’t think it truly deserves. while i certainly wouldn’t call it a good movie, it has its moments and i’ve definitely seen much worse. while steve west may have found his ultimate end in the bottom of a garbage can, thanks to rick baker in my opinion ‘the incredible melting man’ narrowly avoids warranting the same fate .
after a mishap in space, an astronaut returns to earth where he starts turning into a murderous melting monster. i must admit that while watching this b monster movie my opinion of it did change a few times. at first, after the first 15 minutes or so, i thought that this was going to be one cheesy mess of a movie. however i found myself enjoying this campy flick the further i got into it. i mainly have the great makeup effects of a young rick baker to thank for it too! baker' s talents are evident even in this early movie with it' s bloody good makeup work. the oozing melting man effects are impressive for a low - budget production. there' s also a great death - by - power line scene. still, this movie isn' t flawless now. the performances of the cast are pretty weak and the movie has its share of silly scenes - like an overacting nurse running through a window to escape the title character or a scene where an elderly couple decide to steal some lemons and end - up paying big time! the incredible melting man is a mixed - bag of b horror fun. nothing to be taken seriously, for sure, but b horror fans may just dig it. * * 1 / 2 out of * * * *
26. in one scene in the avengers, tony stark can be seen wearing a black sabbath t - shirt. this is likely a reference to the song
iron man ,
which isn' t actually related to the marvel character of the same name .
ted nelson might have been able to save his friend if he could have studied him, but then he randomly gets shot by a security guard. steve kills the guards in retaliation and ends up melting to death .
47. in the avengers, mark ruffalo, as dr. bruce banner, mentions a botched suicide attempt :
i put a bullet in my mouth… and the other guy spit it out .
this suicide attempt is a deleted scene from 2008' s the incredible hulk with edward norton as bruce banner .
there' s nothing in
melting man
you can' t get from
the toxic avenger ,
a movie that functions as a better straight monster movie and satire of the same. when a troma film - - even one as magnificent as
toxic avenger
- - makes your movie look cheap, cut - rate, and insipid by comparison, you' ve lost your right to work in the medium of film .
38. nick fury' s grave has the quote
the path of the righteous man…
on it from ezekiel 25: 17. this is a reference to the film pulp fiction. the character played by samuel l. jackson in that film has that same passage memorized, and recites it several times throughout the film .
to celebrate halloween and october, the we live film family will be reviewing various types of horror films throughout the month of october. these will range from classic horror films to lesser known films and even some b movies to add some range to the type of films being reviewed. day 13: the incredible melting man critic: joe cauwel (cauwel3) plot: an astronaut is transformed into a murderous gelatinous mass after returning from an ill - fated space voyage. cast: alex rebar, burr debenning, myron healey, ann sweeny, and janus blythe director: william sachs subscribe to joe at urltoken subscribe to we live film: urltoken join us on facebook: urltoken follow us on twitter: urltoken
the incredible melting man is a 1977 american science fiction horror film directed and written by william sachs . the plot concerns an astronaut whose body begins to melt after he is exposed to radiation during a space flight to saturn , driving him to commit murders and consume human flesh to survive . during post-production , the producers reshot scenes without sachs ' participation . the film starred alex rebar as the main character , alongside burr debenning as a scientist trying to help him and myron healey as a united states air force general seeking to capture him . while writing and shooting , sachs was influenced by the night of the living dead . with the changes by the producers , the final film has been described as a remake of first man into space ( 1959 ) , which in turn was directly influenced by the quatermass xperiment , even though sachs had never seen either of those films . the screenplay which sachs dramatized was originally intended as a parody of horror films , but comedic scenes were edited out during production and new horror scenes added . sachs claimed that the producers decided during shooting that a straight horror film would be more financially successful , and that the film suffered as a result . the incredible melting man was produced by american international pictures , which also handled the theatrical distribution . the film includes several homages to science fiction and horror films of the 1950s . makeup artist rick baker provided the gory makeup effects for the film . he originally created four distinct stages of makeup design so that the main character 's body would appear to melt gradually , but the stages were ultimately cut from the final film . the film was commercially successful , but it received largely negative reviews , although even critical reviews complimented baker 's makeup effects . according to writer/director sachs , many scenes that were re-shot and changed by the producers proved problematic due to their inferior acting . the incredible melting man was featured in the comedy it came from hollywood ( 1982 ) and inspired the makeup effects for a scene in the science fiction-action film robocop ( 1987 ) . it was also featured in a season 7 episode of the comedy television series mystery science theater 3000 . 
the incredible melting man is a 1977 american science fiction horror film directed and written by william sachs. the plot concerns an astronaut whose body begins to melt after he is exposed to radiation during a space flight to saturn, driving him to commit murders and consume human flesh to survive. during post-production, the producers reshot scenes without sachs' participation. the film starred alex rebar as the main character, alongside burr debenning as a scientist trying to help him and myron healey as a united states air force general seeking to capture him. while writing and shooting, sachs was influenced by the night of the living dead. with the changes by the producers, the final film has been described as a remake of first man into space (1959), which in turn was directly influenced by the quatermass xperiment, even though sachs had never seen either of those films. the screenplay which sachs dramatized was originally intended as a parody of horror films, but comedic scenes were edited out during production and new horror scenes added. sachs claimed that the producers decided during shooting that a straight horror film would be more financially successful, and that the film suffered as a result. the incredible melting man was produced by american international pictures, which also handled the theatrical distribution. the film includes several homages to science fiction and horror films of the 1950s. makeup artist rick baker provided the gory makeup effects for the film. he originally created four distinct stages of makeup design so that the main character's body would appear to melt gradually, but the stages were ultimately cut from the final film. the film was commercially successful, but it received largely negative reviews, although even critical reviews complimented baker's makeup effects. according to writer/director sachs, many scenes that were re-shot and changed by the producers proved problematic due to their inferior acting. the incredible melting man was featured in the comedy it came from hollywood (1982) and inspired the makeup effects for a scene in the science fiction-action film robocop (1987). it was also featured in a season 7 episode of the comedy television series mystery science theater 3000.
the incredible melting man is a 1977 american science fiction horror film directed and written by william sachs. the plot concerns an astronaut whose body begins to melt after he is exposed to radiation during a space flight to saturn, driving him to commit murders and consume human flesh to survive. during post-production, the producers reshot scenes without sachs' participation. the film starred alex rebar as the main character, alongside burr debenning as a scientist trying to help him and myron healey as a united states air force general seeking to capture him. while writing and shooting, sachs was influenced by the night of the living dead. with the changes by the producers, the final film has been described as a remake of first man into space (1959), which in turn was directly influenced by the quatermass xperiment, even though sachs had never seen either of those films. the screenplay which sachs dramatized was originally intended as a parody of horror films, but comedic scenes were edited out during production and new horror scenes added. sachs claimed that the producers decided during shooting that a straight horror film would be more financially successful, and that the film suffered as a result. the incredible melting man was produced by american international pictures, which also handled the theatrical distribution. the film includes several homages to science fiction and horror films of the 1950s. makeup artist rick baker provided the gory makeup effects for the film. he originally created four distinct stages of makeup design so that the main character's body would appear to melt gradually, but the stages were ultimately cut from the final film. the film was commercially successful, but it received largely negative reviews, although even critical reviews complimented baker's makeup effects. according to writer/director sachs, many scenes that were re-shot and changed by the producers proved problematic due to their inferior acting. the incredible melting man was featured in the comedy it came from hollywood (1982) and inspired the makeup effects for a scene in the science fiction-action film robocop (1987). it was also featured in a season 7 episode of the comedy television series mystery science theater 3000.