The X from Outer Space

1967 "Mankind threatened by a deadly nucleus from the vast void of space"
4.8| 1h29m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 01 January 1968 Released
Producted By: Shochiku
Country: Japan
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The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.

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Director

Kazui Nihonmatsu

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Shochiku

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Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Rijndri Load of rubbish!!
AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
Scarecrow-88 Doomed space voyages from Japan to reach Mars are continually interrupted by a mysterious UFO which resembles a meat pie. We follow the space shuttle crew of AAB-Gamma as they attempt to try once more to reach Mars..but, such as the other voyages before them, the crew encounter the same UFO which endangers them by leaving "emitted clouds of vapor". This "vapor" leaves their ship at half-power without the ability to accelerate at full thrust or a navigational system. They collect a mysterious luminous object from their outer hull, vacuum sealing it in a canister for further study. Receiving fuel from their moon base nearby, the crew return to Earth retreating from their flight plan to Mars. Inside the object they collected is an alien life form which is so heated it escapes through the canister, table, and floor released into the atmosphere and growing at an alarming rate. The rubber-suited monster appears as some sort of reptilian chicken dinosaur hungry for atomic energy and rampaging throughout Japan, wiping out cities or objects that stand in it's path looking for food to sustain it's enormous appetite. We follow the exploits of the AAB-Gamma crew, their bosses at FAFC Aronautics, and Japanese military as they decide how to stop this creature from continuing it's murderous reign of terror. It seems the only feasible explanation in understanding how to combat this seemingly indestructible monster is focusing on what kept him at bay for so long in space to begin with..testing the remains of the shell he escaped from to begin with just might hold the answers they seek.Lots of models are destroyed by this rubber-suited monstrosity during the film..there's no way you can enjoy this flick by taking it at all seriously. The premise is beyond absurd and weird, but there's a lot of enjoyment in store for those who can tune out the silly story. Poor cast really try to sell this picture regardless of the material. The monster itself is hilarious. Goofy, mindless fun.
Andrew Leavold From Shochiku Productions comes the the scratchings from the lowest shelf in the fridge: The X From Outer Space, or considering its main protagonist is a rubber chicken monster, the Eggs from Outer Space.The latest Mars mission to launch from Mount Fuji discovers a UFO has been blocking previous spaceships from reaching the Red Planet. An onboard cabal of German and Japanese scientists - and isn't it heartwarming to see the Germans and Japanese collaborate on something again! - aren't exactly the most confidence-inspiring bunch, although Lisa, the Aryan ubernaut, manages to wear a cocktail dress under her spacesuit AND manages to keep every hair in place in zero gravity. Hurrah! After a quick cointreau and trampolining on the Moon, the Mars mission continues until the flying saucer ("It looks like the world's largest fried egg!" remarks one of the crew) coats the ship in what looks like bird poo, but on closer inspection looks like crystal eggs. Safely back on Earth, the egg hatches, the lab is trashed, and the chicken prints lead to a bloody big hole in the floor.If the crew doesn't fill you with confidence, the earthbound scientists are less likely to. As always, the logic of scientists is impeccable: this chicken print looks remarkably like THIS chicken print... The trail of broken egg shells leads all the way to Tokyo, where it is being crushed underfoot - or under claw - by a huge glowing monster the scientists name "Gilala" - part chicken, part dinosaur with colossal drumsticks, a bar-b-q for a mouth, a staggering array of tubes and antennae out of a head framed with just one expression: of startled, open-mouthed hostility.And so it goes, zipping along agreeably and loaded with miniature sets and effects that can only be described as "cute" or "dinky". Compared to its much bigger budgeted contemporaries like Godzilla or, God help it, Gamera, this chicken monster may be a turkey, but in the best possible sense of the word, and in retrospect the sight of a toy car being chased by a rubber claw is priceless.This is easily one of my favourite Z-grade Japanese monster fests, not just because there's no annoying little monsters screaming "the giant chicken monster is our FRIEND!" No, it goes so much deeper than that; this is classic BAD movie terrain that will absolutely scramble your brain: ladies and gentlemen, The Eggs From Outer Space.
MartianOctocretr5 Toy rockets can't stop him. Toy tanks won't stop him. Not even toy airplanes can stop him. Brazenly campy and unabashedly silly, this movie offers no disguise for its lunacy, but rather exalts in its cheesiness. It boasts one of the most absurd looking monsters ever, who you can't help but love because of his ludicrous appearance.The script goes to great lengths to explain the origin of the creature, so the movie drags a little at first. The first part is some horsing around aboard a spacecraft, on a mission to Mars. The ship is buzzed by a UFO, and the crew responds with a perplexing lackadaisical attitude like it happens every day. They divert to an established Moon base after the UFO just wanders off for some reason.You have to wait a while to see the creature, named Guilala , but it's well worth the wait. He's part chicken, part dinosaur, and has what appears to be a snorkel coming out of his forehead. He has beaming red eyes, and the best of all: two wire antennae that wobble around like those wire things with balls on the end you wear on your head if you're going as a bumblebee or something like that for Halloween. Of course, he goes on a rampage in Tokyo, shrieking like a banshee the whole time, as he smashes buildings and other stuff.The human characters are developed pretty well, and the actors actually appear to be taking their roles seriously. As ridiculous as the script is, the characters actually have believable personalities and back stories. There's an odd triangle, with two beauties named Michiko and Lisa both after Capt. Sanu, who just grunts when they talk to him. Fans of insanely cheesy camp will love this one; it's just utter craziness all the way.
stmichaeldet Some movies are far more enjoyable than they have any right to be. Psychomania; The Wild, Wild World of the Batwoman; Manos, the Hands of Fate - poorly made, twisted, confused films which somehow engage the camp sensibility and make us love them. The X from Outer Space is one of these.On the surface, this film is just bad. A kaiju that takes nearly an hour for the monster to show up, and consists mostly of footage of fake rockets traveling back and forth pointlessly, while a complicated love-triangle plot develops amongst the human cast? Godzilla would never treat us like that.Once the monster, "code-named" Guilala, does arrive, he's spectacularly silly-looking. Triangular head, beak, deely-boppers, weird, over-sized shoulders, and frills on his limbs and body that make him look like he's constructed from Chinese dumplings. (The modelwork, on the other hand, is reasonably good.) He stomps a few cities, feeds on radiation, fights the military, and is eventually defeated through superscience, exactly as one might expect.The real prize in this movie is where you'd least expect, usually the least interesting part of any kaiju - the human plot. OK, our Rocket Captain Hero, Sano, is supposed to be torn between his Japanese girlfriend, Michiko, and a blonde Western scientist, Lisa. Michiko is supposed to be intensely jealous of Lisa. And in the end, Sano is supposed to realize that he is better off with a Japanese girl, 'cause apparently, the races are not meant to mingle, or something.The problem is, Sano never shows any real affection for either woman, while Lisa and Michiko are bestest friends when M. isn't pouting over Sano. They even buy each other gifts and show up together dressed for dinner. It becomes much easier to imagine that Lisa and Michiko are the two in a relationship, and that M. is jealous of Lisa's attraction to Sano. And at that point, hilarity ensues.If you watch this film, first plant your mind firmly in the gutter. You'll be glad you did.