Rating of
2.5/4
My wife loved this film!
Gabe - wrote on 01/07/14
A good sci-fi film that is obviously dated, and hilarious and full of cheese. Personally, I don't think this holds up as well as Invasion of the Body Snatcher (1956), the same year as this film, or The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).
But, like all sci-fi films of this era, this film could have some hidden meanings. Movies like this could get away with some things that conventional films could not because of the Hayes Code, HUAC and other forms of censorship. These are my 3 theories, they are mine and no one else's. Although, I probably did learn about some of this in my film classes on college, but I don't recall this film specifically.
1. This is exactly what it says it is, it's about a crew of investigators, investigating the disappearance of the first group of people that went there.
2. The Communists are represented by the first crew of astronauts and the Americans are the second group trying to save them from themselves. Morbius represents Stalin killing his own people, the "id monster" is "red" colored, just like the Red Army, killing it's own people.
3. Morbius is the intellectual, the investigators represent the American government, telling him to quit seeking knowledge and just conform like the rest of society.
