I love old sci-fi and fantasy films, I love the attention to detail, the cleverness, the scripts, and in particular the lack of seamless CGI, everything had to be physically done in some way or could not be filmed, and this just adds an extra fascination when such old films have managed it well.

Extensive use of traveling matts, using scenes of the actor 'cut out' from other scenes where he was filmed at a distance to appear smaller, is this movies main trick, although many simpler perspective tricks and back projection shots all come together to convince, and I do mean convince, the viewer that our main man is indeed shrinking before our eyes.

Not that there aren't still some dodgy moments of course, that 'house spider' sure looks like a large black tarantula to me, but some scenes are still to this day faultless and perfect and stunning, and you still say 'How did they do that!?', and that isn't bad for a film from the 50s!

Involving, creepy, exciting and… more »

I love old sci-fi and fantasy films, I love the attention to detail, the cleverness, the scripts, and in particular the lack of seamless CGI, everything had to be physically done in some way or could not be filmed, and this just adds an extra fascination when such old films have managed it well.

Extensive use of traveling matts, using scenes of the actor 'cut out' from other scenes where he was filmed at a distance to appear smaller, is this movies main trick, although many simpler perspective tricks and back projection shots all come together to convince, and I do mean convince, the viewer that our main man is indeed shrinking before our eyes.

Not that there aren't still some dodgy moments of course, that 'house spider' sure looks like a large black tarantula to me, but some scenes are still to this day faultless and perfect and stunning, and you still say 'How did they do that!?', and that isn't bad for a film from the 50s!

Involving, creepy, exciting and fascinating, on so many levels, and a damn good script, and who knew radio activity was sparkly!?

Own it!