davidcarniglia Not bad at all. An interesting plot, good pacing, and decent performances. As others have mentioned, Night of the Blood Beast is reminiscent of The Thing From Another World.Like The Thing, the monster here lurks around the isolated lab, busting its way in, killing, and getting torched by the beleaguered scientists. Isolation helps maintain our suspension of disbelief: it adds to the sense of danger, and makes the experience more plausible, as the cast naturally is just a handful of people, easily contained in a small area. A low-budget movie can't adequately depict a larger-scale menace.Blood Beast also builds on the replicant theme by having the astronaut John host the parasitical aliens in his blood "using his body for a breeding ground". That's an even creepier concept than the pods in The Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.The monster is plenty hokey, sort of like Big Bird with leprosy. Still, at least it looks like a monster. Like countless sci-fi movies of this era, there's an interest in 'understanding' the monster. Rather than the usual naive scientist getting hosed as he tries to use sign language to 'communicate' with the alien/monster, here it makes more sense. John has a literal, biological connection with it.There's suspense about the alien's intentions until the climactic cave scene. Even the doctor's murder is explicable, given the alien's value system. John's suicide neatly simplifies things, as that destroys the replicant process. The alien's final 'we'll-be-back' threat is a good touch.Night of the Blood Beast successfully shows many facets of the 50s sci-fi genre. Even the spacecraft looks cool, at least when it was in flight. When it crashes, though, we're stuck with what a cunning reviewer aptly terms a "septic tank." Also, the alien/monster disembarks like a chunk of sentient crab grass. Still, this is watchable entertainment; in fact if it were nothing but Georgianna Carter standing around looking bewildered, I'd still be watching.

julian kennedy Night of the Blood Beast: In this 50's sci-fi Roger Corman quickie a returning astronaut (Michael Emmet) crash lands in the hills outside of Cape Canaveral and is discovered by a rescuer (Ed Nelson) and his photographer (Georgianna Carter).The astronaut appears dead and they bring him back to base camp/shack. After a more thorough examination, it turns out he isn't dead after all, but pregnant with what appears to be six sea monkeys. Then the father shows up (An Owlbear) who is an alien that may or may not have peaceful intentions.Is the Alien really peaceful? Will the astronaut's fiancee (Angela Greene) still go through with their wedding now that he is no longer "pure"? Who decapitated and ate the brains of the doctor (Tyler McVey)?The Good: For a quickie Sci-Fi film this has some pretty good mind-bending adult themes. For starters we have a man becoming pregnant by an alien creature and he defends this creature as a teenage girl would defend a delinquent to her parents. The alien talks in quiet tones and proper English about family and immigration as he makes the case for him and the astronaut to raise the babies on their own. We have the hot-headed men who want to kill them just for being different ( The rescuer above and John Baer). The fiancee is conflicted, happy to have her man back but feeling he has changed and is no longer the alpha male she was going to marry.I would be remiss to not mention Georgianna Carter. She is beautiful yes, actually quite stunning, but that is not unusual in fifties sci-fi. She has a more out of time quality. Have you ever seen those shows that purport to show a woman using a cell phone in a silent film from the twenties or a photo of a modern traveler during the construction of the Panama Canal? With her hairstyle and mannerisms and even dress, she seems to be from at least two decades in the future. You just don't expect a character in s fifties Sci-fi quickie to have Rachel Hair.I know it gets a lot of flack but I like the alien's Owlbear costume. I had to smile every time it showed up.The Bad: Night of the Blood Beast is a low budget quickie. It's barely an hour long, the spaceship is a septic tank and there are six people in the entire film.In Conclusion: A somewhat well written (not shot mind you) sci-fi story that muddies the water of whether aliens are good or evil and bluntly muddies the water on a lot of gender roles as well. Clearly grading on a curve for a Roger Corman quickie, the film has a fun monster, a beautiful woman from the 90's and doesn't overstay it's welcome.

Rainey Dawn This is what a "B-film" sci-fi should be - fun, corny, a little scary and overall a decent film. Night of the Blood Beast (1958) has all of the cheesy goodness I would expect from a 1950s sci-fi horror. Fun to watch.The alien monster in the film is a real hoot - a classic example 1950s alien monster mania that is sure to get a laugh out of a few fans of movies of this type.This film is a hidden gem - silly and good enough to keep fans of classic sci-fi horror interested. This film will not disappoint fans of bad "b" films... it's so bad it's good! 6/10

Coventry You know, if only all these late 50's/ early 60's B-movie were only half as exciting as their titles suggested, I would be a very happy man! Movies like "The Creature from the Haunted Sea" or "The Monster from Green Hell" sound like genuine and unhinged entertainment, but in reality they just portray sheer boredom from start to finish. This thing, produced by the legendary Roger Corman and scripted by his lesser known and lesser talented brother Gene, is also a fine example. "Night of the Blood Beast" is a terrific misleading title and shenanigans are made complete by the awesome DVD-cover (showing monstrous claws holding a ripped off human head) and the savory tagline "No Girl Was Safe!". This so-called blood beast doesn't even specifically target girls and none of the attack take place during nighttime. The first half hour is unimaginably boring and the second half hour – luckily it's only 62 minutes long – is ridiculously absurd. The first man in space stupidly crash-lands his ship in a remote desert area. His brilliant scientist friends declare him dead, by all known medical standards in fact, even though his blood cells remain quite active and alter in structure. It looks like there was an alien life force traveling along with the astronaut and that it planted embryos inside of his body that keep him alive. Poppa monster seeks contact with the rest of the group, in the hope they won't destroy his babies. The monster looks like a decomposing baby elephant and the whole movie just gets retarded when the alien starts speaking. The acting performances are wooden (especially the females) and the direction by Bernard L. Kowalski, who also made "Attack of the Giant Leeches" and a personal guilty pleasure of mine called "Sssssss", is thoroughly unremarkable. There's also a tiny positive note, however. With a slight bit of imagination, "Night of the Blood Beast" can be interpreted – along with "It! The Terror from Beyond Space" that came out the same year – as a predecessor to the almighty Sci-Fi landmark "Alien". Both movies introduce story lines that formed the main basis for Ridley Scott's classic. "Night of the Blood Beast" is probably the first movie that brought forward the idea of a human body serving as a breeding ground for alien life forms. Still, in spite of this fun trivia fact, it nevertheless remains a boring and stupid film.