I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE, 1958

Director... Gene Fowler jr.

Starring... Gloria Talbot, Tom Tryon, Chuck Wassill, Maxie Rosenbloom, Ken Lynch

Okay, so the title makes it sound like a totally unwatchable turkey, but wait, it's a lot better than it sounds... As a matter of fact, the only thing keeping it from being excellent is the rather humdrum effects...

Bill is getting married the next day and, while heading home from his stag party, he is absorbed by some kind of misty thing-a-ma-jig thing... The next day he shows up late but the wedding proceeds and the couple leaves for their honeymoon...

We know that all is not right when we see Bill standing on a patio and a flash of lightning shows a rather gruesome face hiding under his outer shell. He doesn't hang around his old drinking buddies anymore and dogs don't like him... After the first year Marge wonders why she has not become pregnant and consults Doctor Wayne who tells her that she's fine and the problem may be her husband...

On one of his late night excursions Marge follows Bill out to the woods where, to her horror, she witnesses an alien exit Bill's body and enter a spaceship... The body remains standing there and she approaches and touches it causing it to topple to the ground... She then runs into town and tries to tell the townfolk whats happening, but nobody believes her... She confronts Bill who tells her that his race is from Andromeda and an unstable sun killed off all the females of the species and they plan to interbreed with the women of Earth after they solve a few problems...

She then takes off and tells Doctor Wayne who, incredibly, believes every word she breathes... The good doctor then gathers a posse of men that have recently had children -- why didn't I think of that -- and they proceed to the spaceship... However, when they get there they find out that mere bullets can't kill the aliens, but they have two dogs with them that supply plenty of gore as they rip out the alien's throats...

The men then enter the ship and discover the original bodies of their friends in suspended animation and plugged into some kind of machine... As they unplug each victim the corresponding alien duplicate turns into mush and dies... Then we see dozens of spaceships leaving Earth letting us know that it was very widespread...