Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

mrb1980 John Carradine was known for making schlock movies in the 1970s and 1980s, but this movie proves that he was acting in pretty bad films all the way back in 1957. The film opens with a shot of an old, dark house, with ominous music and very stormy weather. Dr. Charles Conway (Carradine), his assistants Lobo (the incomparable Tor Johnson) and Sharon (beauty queen Marilyn Buferd), and his co-conspirator Dr. Loren Wright (a dignified Roy Gordon) are running a very shady business that experiments on unsuspecting medical patients. The experiments don't work very well, and Carradine has wound up with a group of deformed monsters in a cell in his basement. Another innocent victim, Grace Thomas (the lovely Allison Hayes) and escaped convict Frank Scott (Myron Healy) join the group. Scott is of course an undercover police officer who saves Thomas, calls the cops, and saves the day. Naturally Scott and Thomas fall in love, since you can't have a 1950s film without a romantic subplot.Some of these little 1950s horror/sci-fi epics (such as "I Bury the Living" and "The Man Who Turned to Stone") were actually not too bad. However, "The Unearthly" is just horrible. The movie is very slow-moving , dark, and is too boring to be very funny. The script, direction, cinematography, and lighting are very poor. Healy makes a substandard hero (since he was almost always a villain) but Carradine, Gordon, and Hayes are pretty good under the circumstances. Tor Johnson demonstrates once again that he's probably the most unforgettable dumb and mute assistant in any movie. Unless you're really desperate for an old horror film, you should skip this one. It's just awful.

bensonmum2 I really appreciate and admire the effort the mad scientists of the 40s and 50s put into their work. Always injecting mysterious fluids and exposing bodies to different types of radiation in the pursuit of some "noble" purpose. They were so single minded in their focus that noting could get in their way. So what if their test subjects were dying or turning into hideous monsters, it was the experiment that was important. John Carradine plays just this kind of scientist in The Unearthly. He hopes by adding a new gland to a human body that he can find the secret of immortality. It helps that he has a house full of patients who know nothing of his experiments, but are there for rest and relaxation. Of course (and as expected) something goes wrong with each experiment resulting in a variety of monsters living in the doctor's basement. Also (and as could be predicted) one of the patients is on to the doctor and plans to put a stop to his experiments.To a certain degree, if you've seen one of these low-budget mad scientist films, you've seen 'em all. The Unearthly is really no better or worse than most of the others. It's hampered by the same budget constraints, lack of original ideas, weak script, and gigantic plot holes that plague a lot of these movies. On the plus side, The Unearthly has quite a decent cast with Carradine, b-movie favorite Allison Hayes, Playmate Sally Todd, and Miss America 1946 Marilyn Buferd. Also, he may not have been much of an actor, but Tor Johnson does have a certain screen presence. In my mind, the negatives outweigh the positives resulting in the (generous) 4/10 rating.Unfortunately, The Unearthly doesn't make for one of the better Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes I've seen. The jokes really felt flat. I cannot remember laughing at much of any of it. I'll give The Unearthly a 2/5 on my MST3K rating scale - find another episode to put on your "to see" list.

VulcanPhil Before MST3K, I saw no purpose for movies this bad. This one had dreary cinematography, terrible pacing, poor scientific speculation, annoying acting, the list goes on. Unless you want to make fun of this one yourself, just get that version.It gets a great MST3K treatment: they had a lot of fun with the above problems, the silly characterizations and most of all, Tor Johnson. I'm not sure if he really saw himself as an actor or just took whatever work paid the bills. :-) His screen presence is, well, just presence. He's just out there without any refinement whatsoever. Definitely funny to watch.So don't take this one seriously.

Gafke Oily, smarmy Charles Conway (John Carradine) is a mad scientist obsessedwith discovering the secret to immortality. In his isolated mansion deep in the heart of nowhere, he conducts sinister experiments on society's forgotten victims - lovely girls with no families for the most part, but also uncontrollable mental cases and escaped criminals. Assisted by icy Dr. Sharon and old puddin' head Lobo (the unforgettable Tor Johnson), Conway develops a super gland which,when surgically implanted into a beautiful young girl, will supposedly render her immortal, but which instead turns her into human beef jerky. The next victim in line is lovely Allison Hayes, who takes a break from playing bitchy vixens and 50 foot tall women to play the role of innocent and depressed Grace. Cansuper-manly handsome police stud Mark Houston save her in time?This is a very silly film with some pretty good acting. Arthur Batanides goes over the top in his role of hyper freak Danny, and Lobo lumbers around the set like a giant toddler, spouting such memorable lines as: "Time for go to bed!" JohnCarradine looks a little embarrassed by the whole thing, but they try to make the best of a bad, cheap situation. Allison Hayes is sweet and ultra-feminine as Grace, running around in see-through nighties, looking adoringly up at Markand sobbing a lot. Myron Healey seems to be wishing that he'd been DanaAndrews in "Laura," and does a halfway decent imitation as the street-smartdetective who gets the girl. The tension builders consist of a twitchy guy in a basement and John Carradine plays Bach on the organ over and over andOVER again to set the proper mood. If the mood was supposed to be restlessirritation, then I guess he succeeded. But really, this isn't a bad little film all in all. Fans of Ed Wood's brand of schlock may very well enjoy it, if only to see Tor Johnson playing - what else? - a big bald weirdo. On a scale of 10. I'd give it an even 5.