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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind.

This is Rob Lamb, and today we have a fun episode for you.

This is our episode from 719, 2024, about the 1958 space horror film, It, The Terror from Beyond Space.

This one's a lot of fun. It's considered one of the key influences on the 1979 classic Alien.

Let's jump right in.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick.

And this week on Weird House Cinema, we're continuing some of our alien-related explorations with a film that is frequently cited as one of the B-movie influences on alien scribe Dan O'Bannon, along with the likes of Mario Baba's Planet of the Vampires, which we've discussed in the show before. But this week, we're talking about it, the terror from beyond space.

If you couldn't tell from the way Rob said it, there is an exclamation point in the middle of the title.

I love midline punctuation other than a colon in a title.

Like, this is two sentences.

Yes.

I think we could have fit a question mark in there as well, though, like it, the terror from beyond space? We don't know. I really liked

this movie, but I, I feel like the title is misleading. In what way is the terror from beyond

space? It's just like a thing somewhere out there in space. It's from another planet,

a known planet, actually. Well, I guess, you know, at this point, maybe people had seen enough

movies where the terror is from space, and they're like, well, can we get beyond that? What's the

next logical step? It suggests some kind of like interdimensional, lovecraftian sort of origin.

It's not there.

This is a, the terror is from Mars.

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