Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

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   snag

   one of THE best movie posters ever !!! 9 years 11 months ago
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   Flops

   Worth the 65 minute run time. They say 30 feet in the dialogue though. I guess Attack of the 30 Foot Woman doesn't have as nice a ring to it.

   It would have been interesting to learn at least a little bit more about what the giant alien was doing on our planet. Maybe he just wanted the diamond but he didn't leave after he got it. Why did he irradiate the woman and let her go?

   10 years 10 months ago
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   Siskoid

   It's interesting to me that Attack of the 50 Foot Woman came out the same year as Home Before Dark, as it feels like the same story - a woman returns from a sanitarium to her cheating, gaslighting husband and eventually throws off his shackles to stand on her own two feet - albeit translated in science-fiction B-movie form. And it has everything it needs to be a cool, cult feminist fable. You certainly WANT to see her become a human kaiju and take vengeance on him. But it takes way too long for her to grow, as we spend time exploring flying saucers and such (which the script thinks should be called "satellites" because it doesn't really know what it's talking about), and yet, when she does, the movie loses its way completely. It just doesn't know how to achieve its effects so our heroine is mostly a transparent giantess of different sizes mixed into the action. She has help from a giant rubber hand, but very little in way of miniature sets. From there, the metaphor falls apart as if the film makers just want to end it before people start walking out, though I surmise they never knew what they were actually making in the first place. That sweet poster though. 5 years 4 months ago

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