Now that Marvel Studios 'Ant-Man' has proven popular with fans, there is renewed interest at MGM for Richard Matheson's sci-fi novel "The Shrinking Man", with the studio's intention to reboot the material as a tragic, modern-day dramatic feature:
Published in 1956, "The Shrinking Man" was previously adapted into two motion pictures...
...including "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957) and "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (1981) :
"....while on holiday, 'Scott Carey' is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and deduces, to his dismay, that his body will continue to shrink.
"The abnormal size decrease...
Published in 1956, "The Shrinking Man" was previously adapted into two motion pictures...
...including "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957) and "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (1981) :
"....while on holiday, 'Scott Carey' is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and deduces, to his dismay, that his body will continue to shrink.
"The abnormal size decrease...
- 6/11/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Arrow Video’s new UK Blu-ray edition of Jack Arnold’s The Incredible Shrinking Man comes packing with some super badass cover art. If you don’t have arachnophobia, you can scroll down to see it below. The classic 1957 sci-fi/horror film about a man named Scott Carey (Grant Williams) who finds himself becoming smaller and smaller after […]
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- 12/2/2017
- by David Gelmini
- DreadCentral.com
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