Directed by Jack Arnold | USA | 81 mins

After a string of excellent creature features for Universal International, director Jack Arnold delivers his science fiction opus in this film based on the novel from classic sci-fi horror author Richard Matheson. While certainly intended as a showcase for the special and visual effects work of Clifford Stine, Arnold uses the story of a man who finds himself ever shrinking after being exposed to radioactive fallout from offshore testing to explore a story about the loss of masculinity, made metatextually significant with the casting of closeted homosexual Grant Williams. Here, the power of unknown science renders a man into a child in his own home, then a doll, and finally in a harrowing ending Arnold had to fight to retain, shrinking into infinitesimal nothingness. The ideal American man of the 1950s was king of his castle, but the incredible shrinking man is dwarfed and defeated by his.

Part of our NUCLEAR HORROR: AMERICA X JAPAN Series 

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