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WORLD_CONQUEST

                                                        August 18, 2004

"It Conquered the World" is a
great piece of McCarthy-era            CORMAN
mythology, released in 1956,
the *same year* as "Invasion      Or could it be that
of the Body Snatchers" (was       both were knock-offs of
Corman fast, or what?).           some other source?

Scary little bat-like things          Many people out there on the
swooping down out of the sky;         web suggest that "Invaders
bleached blondes who've               from Mars" is a predecessor
forgotten to touch up their           from 1953...
eyebrows; an alien
master-mind that looks an                   And the Heinlein novel
awful lot like a giant carrot               "The Puppet-masters"
with an *evil* expression on                came out in 1951.
it's face...

                (Legend has it that when it
                finally has to run for it, you
                can see the 2x4 pushing it out
                of it's lair: I couldn't spot it
                on my last viewing.)


    And I'd forgotten about the closing monolog:

      [link]

      "That when we seek such perfection we only find
       death, fire, loss, disillusionment, the end of
       everything that's gone forward."

    Corman presenting his own manifesto?

                                             CORMAN


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