He started Richard Lester’s directing career with It’s Trad Dad (1962). He did the world a good service when his film Rock Rock Rock (1956) introduced us to the charms and talent of Tuesday Weld. When I tell you They Came From Beyond Space was produced by Milton Subotsky, those familiar with his name will know to expect a watchable film with room for improvement. In short, this film is about as original as Disney’s The Lion King (1994). It was made in Britain and is adapted from a 1964 novel entitled The Gods Hate Kansas – as well they might, for those wacky gods hate a lot of their own creations, but I wonder what they think of plagiarists? This is so obvious a rip-off…I mean, unacknowledged remake of the classic Quatermass II (1955) as to be worthy of Roger Corman. The steaming piece of cinema I’m discussing for your inconsideration this week is called They Came From Beyond Space (1967), a rather bland and cosmologically incorrect title that could apply to any one of scores of science fiction films of the era.

Temple seems the only person immune to both maladies, so if he can discover the reason for this immunity, he may yet foil the alien plan to take earthlings back to the moon for their own sinister purposes.” (courtesy IMDB) The scientists are summarily taken over by some alien force, and others in the area are dying from a mysterious ‘crimson plague’ which covers their bodies with drops of blood. Doctor Richard Arden, preeminent in the field of extraterrestrial study, is not permitted to accompany his colleagues, including his girlfriend Lee Mason, because he is still recovering from the effects of a recent motor accident. “Astronomers investigate a mysterious meteorite shower in a rural English farm field – exceptional because the space rocks all fell in a ‘V’ formation.

Adele from beyond space