Night Of The Blood Beast 1958 ★★ (CC) Sci-Fi, Horror

Night of the Blood Beast is a 1958 American science-fiction horror film produced by exploitation filmmaker Roger Corman and his brother Gene. It was one of the first films directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and was written by first-time screenwriter Martin Varno, who was 21 years old. It starred several actors who had regularly worked with Roger Corman, including Michael Emmet, Ed Nelson, Steve Dunlap, Georgianna Carter and Tyler McVey.<br />It took Varno six weeks to write the script, the original working title of which was Creature from Galaxy 27. The story was partially influenced by the real-life Space Race and the Howard Hawks film The Thing from Another World (1951). Screenwriters Jerome Bixby and Harold Jacob Smith gave Varno uncredited assistance with the dialogue. With a budget of about $68,000, it was shot over seven days at the Charlie Chaplin Studios, Bronson Canyon and a television station on Mount Lee in Hollywood.<br /><br />Storyline:<br />An astronaut returns from space dead. The base that recovered him is then cut off from the outside world by an alien. The death of a scientist, and the discovery of alien embryos inside the resurrected astronaut's body, bodes ill for the survival of those trapped at the base and the rest of humanity.<br />Credits<br />John Baer as Steve Dunlap<br />Angela Greene as Dr. Julie Benson<br />Ed Nelson as Dave Randall<br />Georgianna Carter as Donna Bixby<br />Michael Emmet as Major John Corcoran<br />Tyler McVey as Dr. Alex Wyman<br />Ross Sturlin as The Creature