The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Incredible Shrinking Man is a science fiction film. When Scott Carey starts shrinking because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide. There is no way to help him, even medical science is powerless to help him.
7 May 1903, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
27 January 1917, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
15 April 1933, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2 April 1935, USA
15 October 1897, Peoria, Illinois, USA
6 May 1904, San Francisco, California, USA
26 December 1900, New York City, New York, USA
12 October 1924, Iola, Kansas, USA
6 July 1922, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 August 1907, Michigan, USA
17 April 1913, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
1925, Brooklyn, New York, USA
July 25, 2015
A pretty terrific example of its genre, despite some rather obvious and avoidable flaws of story structure.
June 06, 2007
Notable for its relatively intelligent script, for some imaginatively amusing special effects, and for an existential streak which finally has our (tiny) hero pondering the meaning of existence.
March 25, 2006
Unless a viewer is addicted to freakish ironies, the unlikely spectacle of Mr. Williams losing an inch of height each
May 04, 2006
A pulp gem.
October 20, 2016
Williams gives a sensitive portrayal of a man hounded by the media and consigned to a freak's world, whose descent into being and nothingness provides a memorable climax.
June 24, 2006
A moving, strangely pantheist assertion of what it really means to be alive. A pulp masterpiece.
August 29, 2015
A case of tangible metamorphosis and spiritual expansion, a unique Jack Arnold mastery
January 01, 2000
The surreal intensity of outsize objects that loom as the hero shrinks is handled effectively, and the mystical happy ending is a better payoff than one would expect of the genre.
October 28, 2011
Earns its ponderous tone, and the final moments are as fitting as they are unexpected.
October 01, 2004
One of the landmark sci-fi efforts of the 1950s
March 26, 2009
Director Jack Arnold works up the chills for maximum effect by the time Williams is down to two inches and the family cat takes after him.
April 06, 2007
Surprisingly provocative 50's sci-fi that goes beyond the thrilling spider battle
