A rather inventive little "B" movie, with ambitious, sci-fi appeal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2024

This nifty slice of sci-fi basically plays like Corman's low-rent version of the 1957 classic The Incredible Shrinking Man.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2020

The psychological nature of this tale's examination of a doctor with a God complex, to an extreme length, makes it a major classic of the sci-fi genre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2019

The possibilities suggested in the hints of addiction and inconsistent bouts of megalomania remain tantalizingly unexplored in the unfocussed script.... But there is a wicked edge to the B-movie machinations.

| Dec 16, 2017

The bizarre ending has a resonating factor that helps enhance the film's enjoyment quotient.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 8, 2015

Ray Milland in low budget Roger Corman horror-fest.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 8, 2008

Glorious low-budget fun, imaginative, eerie and sometimes even a little scary.

| Jun 6, 2007

Director Roger Corman keeps this moving and Ray Milland is competent as the doomed man. Special effects on his prism-eye world, called Spectarama, are good if sometimes repetitive.

| Jun 6, 2007

Memorable, viscerally disturbing sci-fi/horror.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2007

This queasy 1963 SF parable was directed--quickly and cheaply--by Roger Corman for American-International, drawing some of its strength from its tawdry drive-in overtones.

| Jun 6, 2007

Embora a premissa no seja desenvolvida de maneira particularmente imaginativa, Milland encarna a situao angustiante de seu personagem com talento (e o plano final arrepiante).

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2006

Intelligent sci-fi movie has a powerful performance from Milland.

| Jun 24, 2006

Science fiction's much-vaunted 'sense of wonder' gets flipped to reveal the horrific back side of that coin.

| Apr 5, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 27, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 6, 2005

Surprisingly level-headed and persuasive in its restraint and succinct dialogue.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2004

One of the better sci-fi cult films.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 8, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 1, 2003