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Cal Meacham (Rex Reason) is invited to join Exeter's (Jeff Morrow) science retreat for exceptional scientists, which he accepts as for one it tickles his ego of course, and for the other because Ruth Adams (Faith Domergue), a former sweetheart of his into whose panties he still wants to get is part of the retreat as well. But soon, Meacham, Ruth, and fellow scientist Carlson (Russell Johnson) figure there's something terribly wrong with the retreat and try to make a getaway - a getaway only Meacham and Ruth survive, Carlson's killed and the whole retrreat is blown up. Meacham and Ruth though are picked up by an UFO that's commandeered by Exeter, who now proves to be an extraterrestrial from Metaluna, and he takes our heroes there. Now Metaluna's a dying planet, under constant attack by next-door planet Zahgon, about whom little is known other than their preferred mode of attack is throwing meteorites, while their motives are completely in the unclear. Now the highest of the Metalunans, the Monitor (Douglas Spencer),. wants for Meacham and Ruth to help in the war effort, something they're less than happy about - but the Metalunans have mutants to ... well, help them make their point. But before Meacham and Ruth can contribute a single piece of science to the Metalunan war, the Zahgon attacks destroy pretty much the entire planet and turn it into a nuclear sun, but our heroes manage to escape back to earth with the help of Exeter, who gives his life escorting them back to earth.

Compared to other science fiction films of the 1950s, this was done on a sizeable budget and thus shows comparatively high production values - and for that suffers all the more from a script that's at best sub-par. Basically the film's plot is too in-your-face on one hand and quite simply to boring on the other. And in that light, the fact that the main characters are completely un-nuanced doesn't help one bit. On the plus side, some of the effects work is really cool, and the mutants look like ripped right out of a pulp magazine of back in the day (and have consequently made for many a cool and memorable still), but that's just not enough to make good science fiction.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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