Space Master X-7 (1958)

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Like the previous commenter I also saw this as a child, and in the spirit of his well written comments, I will add it was at the old Nile Theater in South Minneapolis. I was about 10. I had nightmares about this film for many days after, and to this day 50 years later, I still remember the title! Definitely not for the discerning adult, but my sci-fi grandson would love it! Solid 8 rating for the memories and thrills. However, it is only marginally acted. The special effects are good, and the airplane scene mentioned is thrilling. The oozing through the vent duct in the lab will remind you you are not safe even in your own home. I'd sure like to see this again!

I saw this movie in a drive-in when I was less than ten years old, and for the last forty years, I have been more concerned about the destruction of mankind than about the deaths of just a few people. The special effects and dialog might be old, but the plot is something that could actually happen. It still scares me now. I would pay to see it in a theater if it were showing. I used to think that I liked this movie so much because I grew up loving science fiction. Now I realize that it's movies like this one that made me love science fiction. It isn't some silly fantasy about unicorns and elves. It's a realistic story of science and scientists, and their importance as the only ones who can save us all. It made me want to grow up to be a scientist while my friends all wanted to be doctors and lawyers. For me, it was a life-altering movie.

SpaceMaster X7 was both one of the best SciFi movies I watched as a kid, and one of the worst. How can I say that you may ask? Well, for the best part it had a profound affect on my psyche (is this a good thing). Whenever I saw something that looked a little odd, like a patch of mold growing along the brick of our house, I immediately thought of BloodRust and went screaming inside! Since this movie was the 2nd half of a double feature, and was never put into syndication, I had only seen it one time(unlike other 1950s SciFi movies that were shown continually on television during the 70s, 80s, 90s, and even now). Therefore, over the years, my imagination added a lot to what I remembered about this movie. When I finally found a copy being sold on the internet, I grabbed it up. Boy, what a disappointment. This movie is pure doo doo. Oh well, chock another one up to childhood imagination.

As a child I spent the summers with my grandparents in northern New Jersey. In the summer of 1959 the parents of a friend of mine were taking him to see a movie at a drive-in and I was invited,which movie didn't matter to me, just a chance to see a movie was great. The movie was Space Master X-7 and as child of 11 it scared the heck out of me (my mental film vault still has a has a clip of the scientist being absorbed by the fungus). That was the 1950's, cold war, Castro and all, traveling to outerspace was still a dream. A child of 11 today would find the movie laughable and the effects lame, but in the dark of a summer night in 1959 the movie had its effect.