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Not Of This Earth

1957, Movie, NR, 67 mins

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Master of low-budget horror and science-fiction films Roger Corman comes up with a winner this time. Well-paced, it tells the story of an alien being (Birch) who comes to Earth to scout the planet for another blood source. He takes blood from humans for the people of his own planet Davana. To kill his victims he looks at them with his pupilless eyes and spends most of the movie in wraparound sunglasses and a gray-flannel suit. A frail but still frightening figure, he dies wh... read more leave a comment
Year: 1957
Rated NR

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Cast
Paul Birch: Paul Johnson
Beverly Garland: Nadine Storey Nurse
Morgan Jones: Harry Sherbourne
William Roerick: Dr. Frederick W. Rochelle
Jonathan Haze: Jeremy Perrin Handyman
Dick Miller: Joe Piper

 

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