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The Incredible Melting Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Incredible Melting Man. Theatrical release poster. Directed by. William Sachs. Produced by. Samuel W.
Gelfman. Written by. William Sachs. Starring. Alex Rebar. Burr De. Benning. Myron Healey.
Music by. Arlon Ober. Cinematography. Willy Curtis. Edited by. James Beshears. Productioncompany. Quartet Productions. Distributed by. Release dates.
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Country. United States. Language. English. The Incredible Melting Man is a 1. American science fictionhorror film about 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. Written and directed by William Sachs, the film starred Alex Rebar as the main character, alongside Burr De.
Benning as a scientist trying to help him, and Myron Healey as a United States Air Force general seeking to capture him. It has been described as a remake of First Man into Space (1. The Quatermass Xperiment.[4]The screenplay was originally intended as a parody of horror films, but comedic scenes were edited out during production and new horror scenes added.
Sachs claims 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 1. 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 would appear to gradually melt, but the stages were ultimately cut from the final film. The film received largely negative reviews and has ranked among the Bottom 1. Internet Movie Database, although even critical reviews complimented Baker's makeup effects.
The Incredible Melting Man was featured in the comedy It Came from Hollywood (1. Robo. Cop (1. 98. It also featured in a seventh season episode of the comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3. During a space flight to Saturn, three astronauts are exposed to a blast of radiation which kills two of them and seriously injures the third, Steve West (Rebar). He is next shown unconscious in a hospital back on Earth, with bandages covering his face; his physician, Dr.
Loring (Lisle Wilson), cannot explain what is happening to West or how he survived the blast. After the doctor leaves, West awakens and is horrified to find the flesh on his face and hands melting away. Hysterical, he attacks and kills a nurse (Bonnie Inch), then escapes the hospital in a panic. Loring and Dr. Theodore "Ted" Nelson (De. Benning), a scientist and friend of West, discover that the nurse's corpse is emitting feeble radiation, and realize West's body has become radioactive. Nelson believes West has gone insane, and concludes he must consume human flesh in order to slow the melting. Nelson calls General Michael Perry (Healey), a United States Air Force officer familiar with West's accident, and the general agrees to help Nelson find him.
West attacks and kills a fisherman in a wood, then encounters and frightens a little girl (Julie Drazen) there, but she escapes unharmed. Nelson tracks West by following his radiation trail with a geiger counter, but only finds his detached ear stuck to a tree branch.
Perry arrives by plane, and is picked up by Nelson; shortly thereafter, they visit the crime scene where the fisherman's body was found. Sheriff Neil Blake (Michael Alldredge) suspects that Nelson knows something, but Nelson tells the sheriff nothing because Perry earlier told him information about West is classified. Later that night, Nelson returns home to his pregnant wife Judy (Ann Sweeny), who tells him that her elderly mother Helen (Dorothy Love) and Helen's boyfriend Harold (Edwin Max) are coming over for dinner. On their way, however, Helen and Harold are attacked by West in their car, and he kills them both.
When Blake finds the bodies, he calls Nelson, who comes out to identify them. After Blake angrily demands an explanation, Nelson reluctantly reveals West's condition. Nelson believes West is somehow getting stronger the more his body decomposes. Back at Nelson's house, West attacks and kills Perry, although Judy is not harmed. Nelson and Blake arrive just as West escapes. West then stumbles upon the home of a married couple (played by Jonathan Demme and Janus Blythe). West kills the man and attacks his wife, but she drives him away after chopping his arm off with a kitchen knife.
Blake receives a call about the attack and takes Nelson with him to investigate. They follow West to a giant power plant, and then up several flights of outside stairways. Blake tries to shoot West with a shotgun, but the blasts do not stop West, who throws the sheriff over the railing into power lines, killing him. West hits Nelson and knocks him over the railing, leaving the doctor hanging on the side. Nelson appeals to West, reminding him that they were friends, and West decides to pull Nelson to safety.
Two armed security guards then arrive and, in a panic, fatally shoot Nelson as he tries to protect West. An infuriated West kills the security guards and stumbles away. After collapsing against the side of a building, he slowly melts completely away. The next morning, a janitor finds his gory remains and casually mops them into a garbage can. The film ends with a radio news report about another astronaut team being sent to Saturn.[5] Some sources – including the film magazine Cinefantastique and the 1. Cult Science Fiction Films – describe the film as a remake of First Man into Space (1.
Science fiction film historian Gene Wright suggests that the film was heavily influenced by The Quatermass Xperiment (1. British horror film about an astronaut who begins mutating into an alien organism after a spaceflight.[8] Sachs claims The Incredible Melting Man was originally written as a parody of horror films.[9] According to Michael Adams, a film reviewer who interviewed Sachs, this is why the film mixes horror with comedic moments, such as when Steve West's detached ear gets stuck on a tree, and when a janitor sweeps West's melted body into a garbage can at the end of the film. Adams claims that this explains several comedic lines of dialogue otherwise inconsistent with the rest of the film, including one moment when homeless men notice the melting West and say to each other, "You think we've got trouble, look at that dude."[9]Welch D. Everman, author of Cult Science Fiction Films, points to several homages in the movie to science fiction and horror films of the 1. The title itself is a reference to the Jack Arnold film The Incredible Shrinking Man (1.
Saturn, thus hinting that another accident could occur, was a common device in 1. One difference, noted by Everman, is that in the 1. The Incredible Melting Man, like many late 1. Variety describes the script, in addition to its horror elements, as "a human story attempting to leave a moral message as to whether society or the horrible creature it is chasing is really the most destructive."[1. The script never fully explains how West's spacecraft returned to Earth from Saturn when West himself was so seriously injured and the other two members of his crew were both killed.[1.
Casting[edit]Alex Rebar starred as Steve West, one of only a handful of film appearances throughout his acting career.[1. Burr De. Benning played Dr.
Ted Nelson,[1. 3] and General Michael Perry was portrayed by Myron Healey, who was, Everman notes, often cast as a villain in 1. Film director Jonathan Demme played the small role of Matt Winters, one of West's victims.[1. Rainbeaux Smith, best known for her appearances in B movies and exploitation films, appeared in The Incredible Melting Man as a model who finds one of West's victims while trying to avoid a photographer seeking to take explicit photos of her.[1. Filming[edit]Producer Max Rosenberg, best known for his horror and supernatural films, provided the financing for The Incredible Melting Man.[1. Samuel W. Gelfman was the film's producer, and American International Pictures served as both the production company and the distributor.[1. According to director William Sachs, the producers decided during shooting that a straight horror film would be more financially successful than a parody, so many of the comedic scenes were edited out and new horror scenes were shot and added to the film.
Sachs said he felt the film was taken away from him, and that it suffered as a result because the producers tried to make it both a comedy and horror film, thus failing at both. Sachs said of the decision, "How can a serious horror movie end with the monster being shoveled into a garbage can?"[9]. Makeup effects artist Rick Baker designed facial appliances that simulated the deterioration of the main character. Makeup artist Baker provided the special makeup effects for The Incredible Melting Man, which included the gradual melting of Steve West.[1.
Rebar wore facial appliances that simulated melting flesh, and his hands and feet were fitted with liquid substances that dropped off as he walked, creating the appearance that West's body was falling apart.[1] During one scene, a murdered fisherman's severed head falls down a waterfall and smashes on the rocks below. To create the effect, Baker used a gelatin head with a wax skull and fake blood inside, which burst out upon impact.[1. Baker created four distinct stages of make- up design so Steve West would appear to gradually melt as time passed. However, after the film went through two separate stages of editing, these make- up stages were ultimately eliminated from the final cut, and the character looks generally the same throughout the film.[1.