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''The Incredible Melting Man'' (1977), AKA ''The Ghoul from Outer Space'', 

==Summary==
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"Steven West, astronaut from Saturn, is melting. He must have human cells to survive. He is a living time bomb!"  An astronaut is transformed into a murderous gelatinous mass after returning from an ill-fated space voyage. 

==Details==
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* Release Date:  1977
* Country/Language:  USA, English
* Genres/Technical:  Sci-fi, Horror, Comedy (black comedy)
* Setting:  [[Modern]], [[Cthulhu Icarus]]
* Runtime:  1 hr 24 min  
* Starring:  Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey
* Director:  William Sachs
* Writer:  William Sachs
* Producer/Production Co:  American International Pictures (AIP), Dynamite Entertainment, Quartet
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpRujqpYxoI link])
* TVTropes: ([https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheIncredibleMeltingMan link])
* Wikipedia: ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Melting_Man link])
* IMDB Page:  ([https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076191/ link])
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==Ratings==
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==Synopsis (SPOILERS)==
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An astronaut 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.
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==Notes==

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* In the novelization, the planet the astronaut travels to is Mars, and the cause of his melting is a Martian virus.
* Director William Sachs originally intended the film - to have been titled "The Ghoul from Space" - 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. 
* The film was shot in two weeks, and the budget was so low that the production couldn't afford stock footage of Saturn for its opening scene - instead, public domain stock footage of the sun was used.
* Compare/contrast with the films ''[[Quatermass (1953 franchise)|The Quatermass Xperiment]]'' and the infamously awful ''Monster A Go-Go''....
 

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* setting:  [[Cthulhu Icarus]]
* location:  [[Cykranosh|Saturn]]


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* The investigators trace a trail of bodies to a space expedition gone wrong, and the ghastly melting astronaut which was its sole survivor....


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