| Universal Pictures | Release Date: February 22, 1957 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Sci- fi classic. [20 Dec 1991, p.3D]
Low-budget, sci-fi classic, one of the key Hollywood nuclear-angst pictures. [23 Jul 2000, p.10]
A campy premise taken to unthinkable heights. There are the requisite battles with spiders and housecats, but mostly the increasingly diminutive hero is introspective, turning his predicament into a treatise on the human condition. [07 Nov 2003]
Classic low-budget '50s sci-fi thriller, brilliantly scripted by Richard Matheson from his novel. [01 Sep 2006, p.C7]
An ordinary house cat and a basement spider become ferocious adversaries of tiny Grant Williams in director Jack Arnold's vision of an upside-down world. [31 Oct 2010, p.H6]
Not many science-fiction films can accurately be described as poignant, especially those from the kitschy 1950s. But The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) definitely qualifies. [26 Jun 2008, p.4]
B-budget science-fiction and simple stuff, but with more consistency and logic than usual, and with some rather amusing trick photography.
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