When I first experienced The Incredible Melting Man on Mystery
Science Theater 3000 more than fifteen years ago, I thought to myself
"as bad as this is, this is far from the mind-numbing crap that's
usually on this show". I could actually get through this B-flick without
the best riffers in the world (Joel, Mike, Tom Servo, Crow and the gang)
throwing in their clever barbs every few seconds. Scream Factory has taken the
liberty to put William Sachs’ The Incredible Melting Man out in an ooey-gooey
special edition Blu-ray that is sure please fans of this messy little
masterpiece.
The plot is actually quite simple: Alex Rebar plays Astronaut
“Steve West”, a man on a mission to take space exploration that much further
than anyone before him. He does, but at a price, because now he is sitting in a hospital
bed, gradually melting away thanks to a solar flare while gazing like a lecher at Saturn. After killing a rotund nurse, he emerges from the
hospital, on the loose and suddenly an aggressive murderous creature.