The Incredible Shrinking Man
A fascinating adventure into the unknown!
A fascinating adventure into the unknown!
Horror, Science Fiction
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1957
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A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.
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Runtime:
81 min
Release date:
22 Feb 1957
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$750,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
A moving, strangely pantheist assertion of what it really means to be alive. A pulp masterpiece.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
Unless a viewer is addicted to freakish ironies, the unlikely spectacle of Mr. Williams losing an inch of height each week will become tiresome before Universal has emptied its lab of science-fiction cliches.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
25 Mar 2006
fresh:
The surreal intensity of outsize objects that loom as the hero shrinks is handled effectively, and the mystical happy ending is a better payoff than one would expect of the genre.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000