![]() With nothing more to expect from this tale than 159 pages of light hearted and not quite tongue-in-cheek science fiction horror, the reader will find this novel simply an enjoyable read, taking you back to the hay-day of b-movie classics. With a mind constantly on the predicted and obvious audience this book will attract, Smith keeps up a solid pace throughout this short novel via injecting gore into its pages whenever and wherever possible. ![]() With a mixture of over descriptive splatter and exaggerated dialogue, Smith brings a whole new life to this b-movie splatterfest. With a simplistic and somewhat linear storyline to adapt, Smith takes on the job of thickening out the novel by developing the characterization to further extents than the movie managed to. ![]() Not exactly the most complex of plots, Phil Smith attempts to work from a film screenplay that relied heavily on the very talented Rick Baker’s gut churning special effects and make-up. The film draws heavily from both Robert Day’s 1959 movie “The First Man Into Space” and Irvin S Yeaworth Jnr’s 1958 sci-fi b-movie “The Blob”. ![]() First published back in 1978, the novel for “The Incredible Melting Man” was adapted from William Sachs’s screenplay for the 1977 movie of the same title. ![]()
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