rodrig58 Roger Corman is a living legend, producer with 412 credits and director with 56, he influenced the work of many filmmakers and he was often imitated, not with the same success, by many many others. This guy really knows how to tell a story in cinematic language, personally, I find that he is related to Hitchcock. This "Not of This Earth" is one of his best. It has tension, it's entertaining. Paul Birch as the alien without eyes and Beverly Garland as the nurse, they are doing a good job, they look real, credible, convincing.

eric kallen Vampires from outer space! This flick is a classic of science fiction from 1957. Low budget, but very effective with good special effects, especially the transporter device. All- around good acting, especially Paul Birch as the blank-eyed alien and Dick Miller's comic relief as the hapless vacuum cleaner salesman- a role he would reprise in a word-for-word remake (1988). Miller also played the gun shop clerk in Terminator.Birch even effects a Bela Lugosi accent when inviting Miller into his basement to demonstrate his vacuum cleaner.The introduction has an amusing scene with teenagers and 50s dialog. An excellent copy of this movie is available for free on YouTube. The 1988 remake with Traci Lords has lots of T&A and is also on YouTube.

lemon_magic I judge Corman movies by a different set of standards than I would a bigger budget effort such as "This Island Earth" or "The Day The Earth Stood Still" or even "Earth Vs The Flying Saucers". That's because this obviously sketchy 10-day wonder still has lots of rough edges and some of the seams are still leaking sawdust...but manages to entertain and amuse almost as well as those class "A" efforts.As usual, the screenplay has a derivative but somewhat intriguing premise: a space vampire with a basilisk stare scouts for a fresh blood supply for his home planet and kills, oh, a bunch of people to keep himself going and to send samples back to his home planet. Not the stuff of Oscar winners, but enough to drive a perfectly watchable science fiction movie.The cast is pretty good (in a "B" movie way), and they work really hard to make the ludicrous and stiff dialog work. Beverly Garland is always fun to watch (even in her early movies, she still has a lot of verve and moxie) and Paul Birch is perfectly cast for the part of the alien. He was born to wear wrap around sunglasses and act stiff and grumpy and vaguely menacing. (I've read that he hated working with Corman in this movie and actually quit before it was finished, making it necessary to use a stand-in double for some of the chase scenes.) On the other hand...the "police department" is two people (except for a spear carrier who shows up on screen and is killed inside of 2 minutes), the "hospital" is obviously a sound stage with 2 doors, the "monster" is a tentacled umbrella/catcher's mitt thing, the plot makes no real sense (one scene with Dick Miller is obviously there strictly for laughs) and the action scenes looks as if they were shot in 10 minutes with a hand-held 8 millimeter.Joe Queenan once made a movie (to prove it could be done by anyone), and he said at one point when it was near completion, it was a "movie" in the same sense that a hand typed manuscript with a crayon drawing of an Axe-murderer on the front was a "suspense novel". Well, that's what always comes to mind when I'm watching a Corman movie - the elements are there, but the polish and finish of a "real" movie are never put over the nuts and bolts to make it look like something you'd admire.Still, they kept things moving and there was even a bit of thought and sympathy at the end.

MartinHafer Roger Corman managed to produce and direct a ton of films that made the most of his very small budgets. Only one of his films failed to make money (and, oddly, it was one of his better films) and he managed to produce some very good films while making a picture in only one or two weeks in some cases! Now I am not saying they are all great art--some (like this film) had their cheesy moments. But they were very entertaining and fun."Not of This Earth" is a film about a bizarre alien who has come to this planet to try to cure his people from their blood disease caused by the 1950s horror, nuclear radiation. While his purpose for coming here is noble, the guy has no emotions and things nothing of experimenting on people or draining them of their blood to keep him alive. And, the way he does it with those cool eyes is something you'll need to see for yourself--as well as the ultra-cheesy creatures at the end of the film.The movie manages to elicit some good tension and chills and the leading man (Paul Birch) manages a weird other-worldly performance that worked very well. He was pretty darn scary. Plus, seeing him dispose of the bodies (such as perennial Corman actor Dick Miller) was pretty intense. Worth seeing--even if it might make you giggle from time to time.