![]() An infuriated West kills the security guards and stumbles away. Two armed security guards then arrive and, in a panic, fatally shoot Nelson in the face as he tries to protect West. Nelson appeals to West, reminding him that they were friends, and West decides to pull Nelson to safety. West knocks Nelson over a railing, leaving the doctor hanging on the side. Blake tries to shoot West with a shotgun, but West throws the sheriff into power lines, killing him. Blake receives a call about the attack and takes Nelson with him to investigate. West kills the man and attacks his wife, but she drives him away after chopping his arm off with a cleaver. West then stumbles upon the home of a married couple. Nelson and Blake arrive just as West escapes. Back at Nelson's house, West attacks and kills Perry, although Judy is not harmed. Nelson believes West is somehow getting stronger the more his body decomposes. After Blake angrily demands an explanation, Nelson reluctantly reveals West's condition. When Blake finds the bodies, he calls Nelson, who comes out to identify them. On their way, however, Helen and Harold are killed by West. Later that night, Nelson returns home to his pregnant wife Judy, who tells him that her elderly mother Helen and Helen's boyfriend Harold are coming over for dinner. Sheriff Neil Blake suspects that Nelson knows something, but Nelson tells the sheriff nothing because Perry had earlier informed him that any information about West was classified. Nelson and Perry arrive at the crime scene where the fisherman's body was found. West attacks and kills a fisherman in a wood, then encounters there and frightens a little girl, Carol, but she escapes unharmed. Nelson calls General Michael Perry, a United States Air Force officer familiar with West's accident, and the general agrees to help Nelson find him. ![]() Nelson believes West has gone insane, and concludes he must consume human flesh in order to slow the melting. Theodore "Ted" Nelson, a scientist and friend of West, discover that the nurse's corpse is emitting feeble radiation, and realize West's body has become radioactive. Hysterical, he attacks and kills a nurse (Bonnie Inch), then escapes the hospital in a panic. Back in a hospital on Earth, West awakens and is horrified to find the flesh on his face and hands melting away. Plot ĭuring a space flight to Saturn, three astronauts are exposed to a blast of radiation which kills two of them and seriously injures the third, Colonel Steve West. It was also featured in a season 7 episode of the comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 and episode 108 of RedLetterMedia's 'Best of The Worst' strand. The Incredible Melting Man was featured in the comedy It Came from Hollywood (1982) and inspired the makeup effects for a scene in the science fiction-action film RoboCop (1987). According to writer/director Sachs, many scenes that were re-shot and changed by the producers proved problematic due to their inferior acting. The film was commercially successful, but it received largely negative reviews, although even critical reviews complimented Baker's makeup effects. He originally created four distinct stages of makeup design so that the main character's body would appear to melt gradually, but the stages were ultimately cut from the final film. Makeup artist Rick Baker provided the gory makeup effects for the film. The film includes several homages to science fiction and horror films of the 1950s. The Incredible Melting Man was produced by American International Pictures, which also handled the theatrical distribution, while Columbia Pictures handled international rights under the Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors label. Sachs claimed that the producers decided during shooting that a straight horror film would be more financially successful, and that the film suffered as a result. ![]() The screenplay which Sachs dramatized was originally intended as a parody of horror films, but comedic scenes were edited out during production and new horror scenes added. With the changes by the producers, the final film has been described as a remake of First Man into Space (1959), which in turn was directly influenced by The Quatermass Xperiment, even though Sachs had never seen either of those films. While writing and shooting, Sachs was influenced by Night of the Living Dead. The film starred Alex Rebar as the main character, alongside Burr DeBenning as a scientist trying to help him and Myron Healey as a United States Air Force general seeking to capture him. During post-production, the producers reshot scenes without Sachs' participation. The plot concerns an astronaut whose body begins to melt after he is exposed to radiation during a space flight to Saturn, driving him to commit murders and consume human flesh to survive. The Incredible Melting Man is a 1977 American science fiction horror film directed and written by William Sachs.
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