Everything you need to know about The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

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[@Merylstreep1949]

This movie is kick ass totally messed up my childhood sleep as did Phantasm

[@Tony-1971]

Phantasm is an awesome horror movie. Its the best of the series, but i do love all five movies.

[@creepyskulldini581]

Fuck American Werewolf In London, Michael Jackson's Thriller, and Harry And The Hebdersons! .. . THIS flick actually features Bakers BEST work as far as I'm concerned.

[@UnwrittenSpade]

This channel is criminally underrated

[@adamdavies1068]

It sure is!

[@combatdoc]

I know, we could storm KZbin and demand they...oh wait.

[@donmackie6086]

I've just stumbled upon it! Took about 15 minutes to subscribe!

[@UnwrittenSpade]

@Worlds Biggest Loser I’m saying he deserves way more is all

[@kylecurry577]

Totally agree very underrated and fun/ informative

[@dadofducks]

BTW, the makeup kit was terrible and fooled us kids back in the day. Hardly nothing in the kit that could produce the effect of melting skin, mostly fake vampire blood tubes from what I can remember. Anyway, on our short budget LOL, we took a paper grocery sack and wrapped masking tape around our head in order to form the shape. Once it was done, we would take the mask off and just go to town on red goo and wet paper mache until it looked gooey enough on film. Surprisingly, the effect turned out really cool. Aw the memories!!

[@janderson1008]

The title was no lie, the man did melt incredibly.

[@DaleRibbons]

I saw this as an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

The best jokes are when they pretend Myron Healy is Jonathan Winters.

[@eivindgjengstjohansen9625]

Alexander John Rebar 1940-2021 (the actor who played the incredible melting man) R.I.P.

[@clarencebrowniii4750]

I saw this when I was 7 on Elvira's Horror Feature on KCAL 9.

[@Moochtv]

Shrinking or Melting?! Whoops! Oopsie!

[@JonnyBaak]

Lol I fixed it

[@808breaksbad]

I saw this in 1977 at the local movie theater here in Hawaii. The one thing that caught my eye at the time was the make-up used was very similar to the sap that comes out of a Norfolk Pine tree when the bark is damaged. In fact there is a scene in the movie where the Melting Man is in a forest and brushes his hand against a Norfolk pine. That scene simulates his melting flesh being left on the tree, but in fact is actual sap from the tree. (Norfolk pine trees are Hawaii's version of a Christmas tree. And are also windbreaker trees of Macadamia Nut crops)

[@Gizziiusa]

sadly some japanese fella actually did die of massive radiation poisoning, and he literally "melted to death". the japanese medical team kept him alive for as long as possible and used him as a lab rat to study the radiation effects.

[@blastfromthepast8344]

Great film. Saw it at the cinema in 1978. The book (by Phil Smith) is even better.

[@ezelkir]

Never even heard of this movie. Why is this so interesting

[@EdwardGerman]

I first heard of this movie on TV back in the late 70s, the Saturn Awards were broadcasted live and I seem to recall that this movie won the best horror movie category. At least I think it did, I was able to watch this movie many years latter and I thought it was petty good.

[@SuperOmnicronsj44]

@6:07 ..wow look at that head of hair on Rob Bottin! Out of sight!! lol!

[@TheTwoFishes]

Jonathan, I really love your channel and I really love your reviews. The one for the incredible melting man was excellent I just felt that in places it was a bit of a repetitive streak going and you went ahead and repeated yourself several times. That’s the only negative everything else was fantastic congratulations.

[@anindyaproshoon2054]

Nice

[@ferreirj123]

Your talking about Then Incredible Melting Man but your title is The Incredible Shrinking Man . Mistake or mystique lol Good video either way :)

[@JonnyBaak]

Title corrected thanks for the heads up lol

[@shermanium7834]

@@JonnyBaak you do great work thanks for the videos!

[@pablosonic892]

So, you're doing The Incredible Shrinking Man next to is what I just heard...

[@351wmustanggt]

OK as a huge Sci Fi fan I saw this movie in the theaters in 1977. It was absolutly horrible, the special effects sucked, the acting was awful even for the 70's.

[@johnny5805]

I watched the double bill with Savage Bees when I was 7 years old. It was TERRIFYING !! I can't imagine they would let 7 year olds see a gore film these days.

[@davidmacmillan616]

Me too,the same double bill in Glasgow

[@Musicvato1972]

They should remake this one!

[@JENDALL714]

Long story short, the Astronaut has radiation poisoning.

[@hadleymanmusic]

Rick Baker

[@danielmacgibbon1589]

I remember seeing this at the drive-in when it was originally released. As a middle school horror buff, I liked it enough though the makeup effects are what really stood out - but I would have loved to had seen the director’s original vision for the film.

[@creepyskulldini581]

Fuck American Werewolf In London, Michael Jackson's Thriller, and Harry And The Hebdersons! .. . THIS flick actually features Bakers BEST work as far as I'm concerned.

[@SmartCookie2022]

I saw this as a double bill with The Savage Bees back in 77. I really wanted to like this movie, but ultimately I left the theatre bitterly disappointed. Had a similar experience with The Car the exact same year.

[@josephcontreras8930]

The car was a precursor to christine.

[@devilman2465]

Your video title is mislabled. It's says "Shrinking Man" and not "Melting Man"

[@JonnyBaak]

Problem fixed, thanks for the heads up. Lol

[@robsmith4464]

I begged my mom to take me to the local drive-in to see this when I was seven yrs old, but....big surprise, she refused. I'd seen an article on it in Famous Monsters and thought it looked very cool, judging from the pictures. Didn't get to actually see it for another 30 years or so, and boy......what a disappointment! The makeup fx (and the downbeat ending) are still great though! My parents did buy me the makeup kit for Halloween one year and I had a lot of fun with it. You basically glued cotton balls to your face then squirted colored stuff out of tubes on top of them. Came with the same plastic fangs and bloodshot eyes you could get at any drugstore at the time. Pretty cheap-o, but my eight-year-old self thought it was neat as hell. Felt just a little bit like a makeup fx guy for an evening!

[@whitingjeremyd]

That make-up kit could net you $500 today.

[@robsmith4464]

@@whitingjeremyd Yeah I bet. If I saved everything I ever had as a kid in the 70's, I'd be a millionaire.

[@josephcontreras8930]

I read the review in starlog mag back then.

[@josephcontreras8930]

@@robsmith4464 the mask was sold in the back pages of creepy/eerie magazine too.

[@josephcontreras8930]

@@robsmith4464 so true when toys were toys.

[@kylecurry577]

Jonny Baak...great channel keep them coming!

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

I read about this in Starlog and it was on the cover of Fangoria, but it never played at the movies where I lived and I never got to see it and always wondered what happened to it, or if it even got released. Now I know.

[@archangel5627]

The cable channel Comet plays the Incredible Melting Man from time to time. It’s also been released on DVD.

[@TheRadioAteMyTV]

@@archangel5627 I have never heard of that channel and I don't have cable, but it is exciting to know others get a chance to see it. Thanks for the update.

[@archangel5627]

@@TheRadioAteMyTV Your welcome but I stand corrected, the Incredible Melting Man is now on Blue-ray. I just looked it up and the Blue-ray is available or purchase at Amazon.com

[@kylecurry577]

This movie is goofy over the top sci-fi horror popcorn eating fun. Yes very similar to “ First man in space”. A remake would be interesting . The execs always seem to interfere in movies.

[@larry1350]

1977. Hmm, i was 12 at the time and remember it as being released in 1978. About the same time as the second Omen film. I could be wrong. Anyway I see the director being inspired by First Man into Space. Title says it all. An homage to 50s monster on the loose films.

[@JayTee73]

Minor point, but I think Quatermass is pronounced Quay-ter-mass, not Quarter-mass.

[@TerrorballNoise]

Yeah, i used to pronounce it wrong too.

[@billbagnall7125]

Yes, it’s pronounced ‘Kwaiter-mass’. Also, Rob Bottin is pronounced ‘Bo-teen’. Good vid though...

[@charlesforbin6937]

As a kid this film scared the heck outta me and inspired my artistic 'juices'. And it's pronounced Rob Boteen.....

[@archangel5627]

It’s a shame that Rick Baker wasn’t allowed to use all of the prosthetics he created for the Melting Man effects. What we ended up with was still good but I can’t help but think how much more frighteningly disgusting the Melting Man could’ve looked. Also, whatever happened to actor Alex Rebar?

[@creepyskulldini581]

Fuck American Werewolf In London, Michael Jackson's Thriller, and Harry And The Hebdersons! .. . THIS flick actually features Bakers BEST work as far as I'm concerned.

[@1Blastarr]

I'm sorry, I thought it was horrible, when I saw the commercial as a kid I thought "This is gonna be great", saw it years later, it sucked.

[@jaybug1171]

Heheh , I wore that plastic TIMM halloween costume. I was afraid to watch the movie because of the gore. Ha...what a poser .

[@RobertHunt-tn4jz]

I was too young to go see it probably was scared that you know what I mean just like Jaws which I did see as a boy my late Big Brother give me a book dealing with makeup artist in movies I believe it was making a monster

[@johnhornby7806]

Saw this film when first released on double bill with Savage Bees. I was 11. Terified me for months

[@josephcontreras8930]

At the end the melting man looked like an amalgamation of melted crayons left in the sun like an abandoned flat child full bodied artwork. And the janitor just rolls him up and throws him out like so much rubbish..sad.

[@geraldmartin7703]

I saw the movie once, severely cut and on a b&w television, decades ago. I didn't until this video know it was supposed to be a comedy; but that explains one unexpected hilarious scene where the general in a tense situation reaches into his holster for his gun but instead pulls out a fried chicken leg, the remainder of his lunch. Armed response that.

[@Warsie-Fan]

I'm old enough to remember seeing this at the movie theater when it came out. Must've been 6 or 7 years old! 😮 I know I know,... hey different times back then. For once, I'm siding with the movie studio stepping in on making this a straight up horror. Works much better IMO.

[@theoneonly259]

You do write your own scripts right? You use full stops right? So you do know where your sentences start and where they end right? So why is it that in every single video of yours there are always multiple times that it seems as though you have finished your sentence but after a pause we realize that you havent and that you had a few words left in the sentence. Every single video. Not trying to be a jerk - I like your videos and watch every one. But honestly - the regular gaps you have in your sentences are bizarre and they can make it difficult to follow what you are saying.

[@zod5966]

I hear that term "pays homage" 6:30 a lot but then I'm reminded of the quote by Picasso "good artists copy, great artists steal". Is it really homage or is it just imitation?

[@bentramer682]

So, this movie had cut footage because it was too violent? Producers am I right.

[@ivorbiggun710]

Just for your info the 'Quater' in Quatermass should rhyme with crater, not quarter.

[@Lumibear.]

I’ve seen First Man Into Space but not this one, I’ll look out for it, I love hokey old monster movies, IT Came From Outer Space being my current fave, but there are many I love.

[@ou812hahaha4]

Thank you Jonny! 👍🏼

[@MundaneGray]

Of all the movies I have gone to see in a theater, this is the only one I have walked out of. It was so awful that I gave up after half an hour and went home.

[@danielross5292]

I would love to see a remake of that movie done with the Original script!😉

[@bruthamann5697]

Ha ha! I remember when this hit the theaters. 😆 We thought the effects were awesome.

[@haruruben]

Oh man I saw this on late night TV when I was a kid... so gross 🤮

[@aaronwatch3214]

It's pronounced 'Bow-teen'.

[@royallison5307]

I remember seeing the halloween costume in the store.

[@berniecasey7592]

Saw this as a kid in the movies back then I was 10

[@jamiebraswell5520]

A Halloween costume, lol!

[@mrkrinkle72]

I'm DR Ted Nelson!!!

[@rickytoddbotelho9555]

Still like this one😄

[@marktracy1721]

The guy in robot cop didn't melt he transformed, mutated than got hit by the van than..........ouh.....real gross.

[@ScreamingScallop]

8:26 Yikes. Burr DeBenning and Myron Healy aren't even named on the poster! Michael Alldredge played Sheriff Blake.

[@sebswede9005]

Rob Buttom. 😂

[@roddmatsui3554]

A great motion picture..... bizarre and incomprehensible..... there is nothing like it !

[@fatbloke143]

Enjoyed this very much, but I wanted to correct your pronunciation on a couple of points. It's KWAY-termass and Rob Bottin's name is pronounced baw-TEEN.

[@thrashpondopons2776]

'The Incredible Melting Man' is to 'First Man In Space' What 'Airplane' was to 'Zero hour!' & I can totally se the film working better as a Dark-Comedy! Sorta 'Young Frankenstein' meets 'Toxic Avenger'! Also, I have always seen a connection to TIMM & the Zombie Sub-Genre... Just the one case of the Lone Zombie as opposed to a Horde!

[@felixrodrigues3861]

please the master of the world 1961- captain nemo and the underwater city 1969

[@jaimeparedes9188]

Steve Baker went on to win several Academy Awards to the years to come. Thanks for posting.

[@doughugo9413]

Awesome!

[@JoeEnglandShow]

I think it's worth noting that, ironically, the film would later achieve a different sort of success after being re-converted back into a comedy through the lens of the classic series Mystery Science Theater 3000, fittingly bringing its evolution full circle and returning it to the genre of sci-fi parody. What's more, the episode even featured a subplot about one of the characters attempting to make his own sci-fi B movie, only to have his vision relentlessly screwed over by the producers!

[@johnharrison9685]

The original, comedic version should be released along with the version that was released in 1977.

[@Jeff-wr1fs]

Nicejob, great retrospective. Would love to see the director's original take. Thank you.

[@christopherdunbar394]

something likes the 1980s toxic avenger

[@vtbn53]

I am not sure I would enjoy the original concept, I am not a fan of parodies.

[@hadleymanmusic]

Meanwhile. Looking through the rings and 41 years later

[@michaeln7305]

There's a hand-picked Botton @ 6:12 😏

[@pablosonic892]

You have the best channel on KZbin. Period.

[@hadleymanmusic]

Still worked for a b movie most excellent

[@johnashton4776]

Great video as usual.

[@JonnyBaak]

Thanks again!

[@johnashton4776]

@@JonnyBaak Your welcome also ould like to see a video on R.O.T.O.R. and trial of the Incredible HULK if you already done those will look to watch.

[@hadleymanmusic]

Whats a good B movie?

[@stevesmith9404]

excellent,thanks....

[@hadleymanmusic]

It looked so killer tho

[@billba]

Best Channel!!!!!!!!

[@timworley3058]

I'm going to have sliced turkey & cracker sandwiches for lunch.

[@only257]

Tom Servo: Wow, you hardly ever get to see Jawas in the nude. Tom Servo: [as Mac blows a bubble gum bubble] Wanna see my spleen? It's pretty cool. [Eric pops the bubble] Tom Servo: Ahh! I need that to live! [a garbage can begins to shake] Crow T. Robot: Remember: When you throw away your Tickle-Me Elmo, you've got to remove the batteries. [Mac makes Eric's hands into an V-shape] Crow T. Robot: That's neither the church nor the steeple. Crow T. Robot: I think we landed too far from the movie. Jonah Heston: This reminds me of the summer my dad hit a deer. Tom Servo: [imitating Mr. Bill] Oh, no! [Mac's pale, skinny hand reaches for a Coca-Cola] Crow T. Robot: My precious. Crow T. Robot: Yeah, keep trying, music. This isn't that interesting. Crow T. Robot: That is some next-level beekeeping. Jonah Heston: It's a smart move. Distract the dogs with some Peter Cetera music. Tom Servo: Alright, this 80's movie has fulfilled its sweatbands-and-a-montage quota. Very nice job. Funniest mystery science theater 3000 episode ever made great video too☺️

[@dadofducks]

This movie brings back so many childhood memories to me, flashing thru monster magazines and Starlog just to glance at Rick Baker's magnificent special make up. The make up kit you highlighted on this video was the same one me and my buddy bought because we wanted to make our own incredible melting man for our Super 8 horror films we use to film as kids. Never knew about the Halloween costume. The film wasn't that good, but I had to buy it on blu ray when Scream Factory released it. Looking back, it kinda makes me mad the actor didn't want to sit thru all of the make up sessions, probably taking away some cool effects caught on film. If he didn't want to play the part of a creature that melts (like the title suggests), then why did he sign up for the movie? Anyways, good review as always.

[@MrPornoforpandas]

Enjoyed your video. Though somehow i feel that gruesome creature fx would not have worked for a comedic treatment.

[@MonkeyspankO]

If a film fails on its own merits so be it, but if it falls short because of re-editing/interference it somehow seems more sad, because of what could have been.