The Incredible Shrinking Man

Director Jack Arnold works up the chills for maximum effect by the time Williams is down to two inches and the family cat takes after him.

A moving, strangely pantheist assertion of what it really means to be alive. A pulp masterpiece.

Unless a viewer is addicted to freakish ironies, the unlikely spectacle of Mr. Williams losing an inch of height each

The surreal intensity of outsize objects that loom as the hero shrinks is handled effectively, and the mystical happy ending is a better payoff than one would expect of the genre.

Williams gives a sensitive portrayal of a man hounded by the media and consigned to a freak's world, whose descent into being and nothingness provides a memorable climax.

A case of tangible metamorphosis and spiritual expansion, a unique Jack Arnold mastery

A pretty terrific example of its genre, despite some rather obvious and avoidable flaws of story structure.

Earns its ponderous tone, and the final moments are as fitting as they are unexpected.

Notable for its relatively intelligent script, for some imaginatively amusing special effects, and for an existential streak which finally has our (tiny) hero pondering the meaning of existence.

Surprisingly provocative 50's sci-fi that goes beyond the thrilling spider battle

A pulp gem.

One of the landmark sci-fi efforts of the 1950s