poe-48833 Review of The Unearthly

The Unearthly (1957)

Only "second rate" if you're talking Budget...

[9/10 · 10 August 2016]

THE UNEARTHLY may be regarded "second rate" by some, but it's actually First Rate Entertainment. Allison Hayes, whose job is to just look beautiful, holds up her end of things very well, thank you, and John Carradine adds his VERY distinctive voice to the unearthly goings-on (a voice that ITSELF lent an air of Unearthliness to many a Monster Movie, a voice right up there with that of Horror Great Peter Cushing); even Tor Johnson as Lobo does a commendable job here. THE UNEARTHLY is very well directed and boasts perhaps one of the Greatest endings you're ever likely to see in a Fright Film (it rates a 9.5 on the Richter Scale). The "glands" that Carradine would beneficently bestow upon Mankind remind one of the parasites in David Cronenberg's classic, THEY CAME FROM WITHIN/SHIVERS.