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The Incredible Shrinking Man Reviews
The film's trick photography is pretty good. The acting, pretty poor. Regardless, it holds a horrible fascination.
| Sep 24, 2021
Oversize sets and trick photography are extremely obvious and utterly unconvincing.
| Sep 24, 2021
It will be pleasant to see Williams and Miss Stuart again. They are far better theatrically than the usual run of players in this type of picture.
| Sep 24, 2021
It doesn't matter that the cast has no "name" players. The strange story and the special effects, are the thing.
| Sep 24, 2021
These sequences, done with great ingenuity and some good trick photography, are so gruesome as to be downright unpleasant.
| Sep 24, 2021
Viewers who can get into the mood can actually believe that they are watching a six-footer gradually shrink to one inch in height -- without being aware that the sets are getting bigger and bigger.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 24, 2021
Here is a fascinating exercise in imagination, as terrifying as it is funny.
| Sep 24, 2021
The best science fiction film since Them.
| Sep 24, 2021
The Incredible Shrinking Man is one of the most incredibly fascinating pictures to play here in a long time.
| Sep 24, 2021
It is, for all that, a simple, ingenious, and effective exercise in horror. The trick photography, to which The Incredible Shrinking Man owes much, is admirable.
| Sep 24, 2021
Director Jack Arnold works up the chills for maximum effect by the time Williams is down to two inches and the family cat takes after him.
| Mar 26, 2009
A moving, strangely pantheist assertion of what it really means to be alive. A pulp masterpiece.
| Jun 24, 2006
Unless a viewer is addicted to freakish ironies, the unlikely spectacle of Mr. Williams losing an inch of height each week... will become tiresome before Universal has emptied its lab of science-fiction clichés.
| Mar 25, 2006
The surreal intensity of outsize objects that loom as the hero shrinks is handled effectively, and the mystical happy ending is a better payoff than one would expect of the genre.
| Jan 1, 2000