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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb. And this is Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema, we're going to be talking about the 1958 sci-fi horror movie, I Married a Monster from Outer Space, directed by longtime Hollywood film editor Gene Fowler Jr. starring Gloria Talbot and Tom Tryin.

Spoiler warning, as always, I figure we should put that right at the top. If you're new to this show, we always end up talking about the plot in some pretty extreme detail. So if you want to go into this movie unspoiled, go check it out now. I know it's a few decades late now on that, but you know, you still have the chance if you want to pause here and go watch the movie.

I don't know where the best place to start is, but maybe with the title, I married a monster from outer space.

The wordiness of the title really catches up with you when you're like typing it a lot in the notes

it's one of those 50s movies with an overly descriptive title and yet unlike a lot of these movies with really

wordy titles it's not misleading like it conquered the world this This one is wordy, but as a plot summary,

it's right on the money. Yeah, this is exactly how it goes down. Yeah. So the story is about a

young woman named Marge who begins to suspect that her very hunky new husband, Bill, may

actually be an alien in disguise, and he is.

This was a new movie for me.

I just saw it for the first time over the weekend.

I watched it with Rachel, and I was really pleasantly surprised.

I kind of picked it because, for one thing, because of the funny title and also because

I'd read some people online saying it was worth a look.

I thought it was actually really good.

There are definitely some dated and goofy elements, and I'm excited to talk about those as well.

One of the funniest parts of it being that you can literally never tell what time it's supposed to be in the movie because it's obviously the middle of the night.

Characters are asleep and they get up out of bed and leave the house, but it's shot in broad daylight.

But the movie really does hit hard on multiple levels.

I think it's got a quite strong script with pretty tight plotting that is smart and interesting in several ways

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