Not exactly the most complex of plots, Phil Smith attempts to work from a film screenplay that relied heavily on the very talented Rick Baker ' s gut churning special effects and make-up. The film draws heavily from both Robert Day ' s 1959 movie ' The First Man Into Space ' and Irvin S Yeaworth Jnr ' s 1958 sci-fi b-movie ' The Blob '. 'įirst published back in 1978, the novel for ' The Incredible Melting Man ' was adapted from William Sachs ' s screenplay for the 1977 movie of the same title. On the run from the quarantine hospital which had been treating him'from the authorities who had to conceal his escape at all costs'from his friend Ted Nelson'and from the dreadful organism which had taken possession of his flesh, turning him into a fiendish nightmare but leaving his mind intact to cringe from the murderous horror he had become. Two were dead and Steve West was on the run. ' Three astronauts had returned safely from the Mars landing. Only bad point is a very simplistic storyline that doesn't really get any more invovled than the picture on the front cover!!! The Incredible Melting Man by Phil Smith is actually a well written novel that keeps a good pace with reasonably well developed characterization.
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