X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Suddenly he could see through clothes, flesh… and walls!
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 19 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 12, 2015
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: KL Studios Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt & Don Rickles | |
Directed by | Roger Corman | |
Edited by | Anthony Carras | |
Screenplay by | Robert Dillon & Ray Russell | |
Composition by | Les Baxter | |
Art Direction by | Daniel Haller | |
Produced by | Roger Corman | |
Director of Photography: | Floyd Crosby |
Entertainment Reviews:
The possibilities suggested in the hints of addiction and inconsistent bouts of megalomania remain tantalizingly unexplored in the unfocussed script.... But there is a wicked edge to the B-movie machinations.
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Stream on Demand
Rating: 3/4 --
This nifty slice of sci-fi basically plays like Corman's low-rent version of the 1957 classic The Incredible Shrinking Man.
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Creative Loafing
This queasy 1963 SF parable was directed--quickly and cheaply--by Roger Corman for American-International, drawing some of its strength from its tawdry drive-in overtones.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/5 --
The psychological nature of this tale's examination of a doctor with a God complex, to an extreme length, makes it a major classic of the sci-fi genre.
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Father Son Holy Gore
Intelligent sci-fi movie has a powerful performance from Milland.
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Time Out
Director Roger Corman keeps this moving and Ray Milland is competent as the doomed man. Special effects on his prism-eye world, called Spectarama, are good if sometimes repetitive.
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Variety
The theme of hubris is expressed in the visual idea that the world, once truly seen, is overwhelming to the point of madness, and the film’s final scenes, which brings Xavier to a revival tent, slyly introduces a cosmic dimension to the story and sets up the great, twisted grace note of the very end. -- Grade: B+
A.V. Club
Product Description:
Ray Milland stars in this visionary sci-fi film as Xavier, a doctor who gains the power to see through solid objects; first it's women's dresses at a party, then people's bodily organs, and, eventually, God looking back at him from the center of the universe. Attractive Dr. Diane Fairfax (Diana Van Der Vlis) is Xavier's love interest, though he can't stop seeing through things long enough to notice her--he can't even sleep since he can see through his own eyelids. When he accidentally kills a fellow doctor, Xavier winds up at a carnival sideshow where he performs fortune-telling and faith healing for a sleazy barker (Don Rickles). Later he and Diane head to Vegas, where his see-through card abilities parlay into a small fortune, but then he's on the run again, going progressively more insane as the visions get too much to bear. An insightful script, a moody Les Baxter score, and Milland's tortured performance amply compensate for the film's low budget, and there's a twisted shock ending. It's considered an intellectual peak in B-movie maestro Roger Corman's vast canon, with cheap but engaging "X-ray" optical effects that anticipate his later psychedelic freak-out THE TRIP.
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- Sales Rank: 44,814
- UPC: 738329161927
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