Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.
- transformation
- astronaut
- disfigurement
- melt
- accident
- crashing through glass
- body horror
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Alex Rebar
Steve West
Burr DeBenning
Dr. Ted Nelson
Myron Healey
General Michael Perry
Michael Alldredge
Sheriff Neil Blake
- Ann Sweeny — Judy Nelson
- Lisle Wilson — Dr. Loring
- Cheryl Smith — The Model
- Julie Drazen — Carol
- Stuart Edmond Rodgers — Little Boy
- Chris Witney — Little Boy
- Edwin Max — Harold
- Dorothy Love — Helen
- Janus Blythe — Nell Winters
- Jonathan Demme — Matt Winters
- Westbrook Claridge — Second Security Guard
- Directed
- William Sachs
- Written
- William Sachs
Production
- Rating
- 4.6 / 10 · 95 ratings
- Studio
- American International Pictures, Quartet
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
