Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Absolutely the worst movie.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

An alcoholic rich woman(Allison Hayes) is abducted by a giant alien and exposed to radiation. Soon after her return, she grows into a giantess. Now fifty feet tall, she wreaks destruction all over town looking for her unfaithful husband and his floozy (Yvette Vickers). So much fun. Busty beauty Allison Hayes' theatrics are a hoot to watch ("Why did I take you back? Why? WHY?!?"). I love a lot of her work and this is the highlight of her B career. Everybody rags on this movie but it's one of my favorite B movies. Normally I don't rate up for movies like this but some movies are just so enjoyable, even if it's for what some consider the wrong reasons, that I feel I have to. With everything else I take into account when rating a movie, entertainment value is at the top of my list. This one is undeniably entertaining. Full of unintentionally hilarious lines, cheesy effects, and campy performances. One of the all-time 'so bad it's good' classics. Oh, and one of the best movie posters from the '50s. And remember: "When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism..."

Monsters from the Id. This Movie came Late in the 1950's Sci-Fi Cycle but it Contains Much of the Decades Angst and Subconsciously Displays a Rich Array of the Era's Fears and Uncomfortable Social Conventions.The Poster...Wonderfully Prolific Artist Reynold Brown Designed this Classic and it Contains an Ultra-Sexy, Larger than Life, Voluptuous Woman Straddling an Iconic Freeway and that Most Descriptive of Eisenhower Prosperity and Abundance, the Automobile.Pubescent Boys...Baby Boomers who Watched Allison Hayes in this Movie in the Back Seat of a Car at the Drive-In or Seated in a Balcony at the Local Movie-Theatre, or on TV, Certainly were made all Tingly by the Sight of this Sexy Woman in Revealing Cleavage and Skin Tight Clam-Diggers. That Definitely Contributed to the Pleasurable Memories and Added to the Cult Fever for the Film.Flying Saucers...Here for some Unknown Reason were Called Satellites (the Sputnik fear), and the Term is Spoken Many Times as if to Shout it to the World. The Most Eerie Part Takes Place inside the Sphere Transposing Low-Budget Corrugated Cardboard, Goldfish Bowls, and Fog into a Surreal Scene. It Includes Diamonds as Fuel for The Flying Saucer and are there as Reminder (probably unintentionally) of the Decades Opulence.Radiation...Another Movie where that Unleashed Cancer Causer Transfigured a Benign Creature into a Monster.Female Bondage (Housewives and a Woman's place)...Although Unintentional, it Manifested an Underlying Feminine Fear of Subjugation and Restriction. The 50 Foot Woman is Literally put in Chains and Doped Up.Overall, a Movie that Reaches Things on such a Subconscious Level can't Help but be Remembered, Embraced, Nervously Laughed At, Ridiculed, Loved and Hated. But the Lasting Legacy of the Film Really says More about Ourselves than the Movie's Competence or Lack Thereof.Besides All of that Mumbo-Jumbo, the Movie is a Hoot.

Happily, this thoroughly disarming, ridiculous, totally entertaining guilty pleasure is now available on DVD and I'VE GOT IT! Indeed, I just recently re-watched it and once again had a truly super time with 'B' favourite Allison Hayes doing her over-the-top womanly thing. More flawed than a politician's justifications for past misdeeds, it does nevertheless possess a chilling music score coupled with some neat black and white cinematography. Indeed, Hayes is almost pre-transformation believable when not being undercut by the ridiculous dialogue. A fifties treasure from a poverty row studio, this cheesy enterprise may be more holey than righteous, but it should not be missed by addicted aficionados.

One of the great camp classics of all time, Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman has a special place in the hearts of all those who love bad science fiction. But even bad science fiction is always made palatable by a little sex.Allison Hayes is breathtaking in the starring role, she's quite an eyeful in normal proportions. Hayes plays a dipsomaniac heiress stuck in a bad marriage with a no account rat played by William Hudson who has Yvette Vickers on the side. Hayes is fresh from the sanitarium where she's gone for a cure.Given that background her report of a large satellite and an encounter with a big giant emerging from said satellite is greeted with skepticism. But Hudson sees her ravings as a way of getting out of the marriage with a large settlement one way or another.But Allison will not be denied. When she through encounter with the giant's radioactivity grows to his size, it's look out world for a 50 foot woman scorned.I'm sure Allied Artists made a pile of drive-in money off this one. And Allison Hayes got a career role out of it as well.