Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

davidcarniglia Not bad at all. An interesting plot, good pacing, and decent performances. As others have mentioned, Night of the Blood Beast is reminiscent of The Thing From Another World.Like The Thing, the monster here lurks around the isolated lab, busting its way in, killing, and getting torched by the beleaguered scientists. Isolation helps maintain our suspension of disbelief: it adds to the sense of danger, and makes the experience more plausible, as the cast naturally is just a handful of people, easily contained in a small area. A low-budget movie can't adequately depict a larger-scale menace.Blood Beast also builds on the replicant theme by having the astronaut John host the parasitical aliens in his blood "using his body for a breeding ground". That's an even creepier concept than the pods in The Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.The monster is plenty hokey, sort of like Big Bird with leprosy. Still, at least it looks like a monster. Like countless sci-fi movies of this era, there's an interest in 'understanding' the monster. Rather than the usual naive scientist getting hosed as he tries to use sign language to 'communicate' with the alien/monster, here it makes more sense. John has a literal, biological connection with it.There's suspense about the alien's intentions until the climactic cave scene. Even the doctor's murder is explicable, given the alien's value system. John's suicide neatly simplifies things, as that destroys the replicant process. The alien's final 'we'll-be-back' threat is a good touch.Night of the Blood Beast successfully shows many facets of the 50s sci-fi genre. Even the spacecraft looks cool, at least when it was in flight. When it crashes, though, we're stuck with what a cunning reviewer aptly terms a "septic tank." Also, the alien/monster disembarks like a chunk of sentient crab grass. Still, this is watchable entertainment; in fact if it were nothing but Georgianna Carter standing around looking bewildered, I'd still be watching.

MartinHafer Roger Corman was the executive producer for this film and this alone was reason for me to see the film. Now I am not saying all of his films were brilliant, but as a director and producer, he was able to get the absolute most out of minuscule budgets. In fact, many of his budgets were nearly as low as those of Ed Wood--yet Corman only had one film that failed to earn back its production costs (and I LIKED that film a lot). In the case of "Night of the Blood Beast", the film only cost $68,000 to make--so naturally it couldn't help but do well at the box office! The film begins with an astronaut returning to Earth when he loses control of his rocket and crashes. A couple happen upon the wreck and try their best, but the astronaut is dead. However, when the rest of the rescue party arrives, they notice that the corpse is strange. It is not rigid and the body temperature is normal...even hours after death! Then, when they look at his cells under a microscope, they see that there is a LIVE sort of foreign cell that is taking over the body! Yikes. Then, really bad things start to happen...which isn't surprising since it's called "Night of the Blood Beast"! Once again, I should point out that the film cost next to nothing to make by Hollywood standards of the time. Yet, even with no-name actors, the film manages to work pretty well. Had the budget been higher, the monster wouldn't have been so laughable. It seriously looked like a combination of a sea monster, swiss cheese and a child playing dress-up! It's a shame, as the film was very good otherwise and is still worth seeing--and with a very unique ending.

xnet95 As I read reviews of old sci/fi-monster movies on IMDb, I am consistently sickened by the vapid, surface assessment of the movie's worth by a HUGE percentage of people. Many times these low-budget efforts have powerful statements to make if you look deep enough. For those of you that enjoy trying to figure out what kind of message a movie is communicating, please read on.Night of the Blood Beast was made in 1958, and it needs to be viewed in that CONTEXT. This was a time when America was still reeling from McCarthyism and communists were everywhere. During this era, there was no greater threat! So, in that CONTEXT, I offer the following: The babies growing inside the astronaut represent communism. If we accept communism/the monster for even just a minute and listen to it, it can grow and fester inside all of us. After gestation, communism/alien babies will hatch and destroy our way of life. Communsim/aliens will take over, and there will be no turning back. The monster is the voice of communism. He/she's the one that planted the seeds in the astronaut the same way that the seductive message of communism planted the seeds of a socialist paradise into the minds of weak, susceptible, and naive Americans. Accept their offer and all is lost! Everything we hold dear will vanish because our open mindedness will allow these seeds to germinate and take root. And like a weed that takes root, it is almost impossible to eradicate once it has done so. It must be stopped now!!! What's worse, this monster from outer space or communist rule!?!Actually, I should've written "What's worse, this movie or the coterie of pathetic pseudo-snobs that consistently fall all over each other trying to trash a movie based on childish and superficial assessments of that movie's value!?!" Yes, I mean you Michael Elliott, bensonmum2, classicsoncall, and Hitchcoc. You're all pathetic losers that need mental help. Why even watch and write about a movie like this if you're going to judge it by today's standards? You people need to get out more and enjoy REALITY. It's pretty sad when a casual IMDb user like me starts to recognize and remember these loser's names after a while because they write THOUSANDS of superficial, lame reviews. Get a life!

Coventry You know, if only all these late 50's/ early 60's B-movie were only half as exciting as their titles suggested, I would be a very happy man! Movies like "The Creature from the Haunted Sea" or "The Monster from Green Hell" sound like genuine and unhinged entertainment, but in reality they just portray sheer boredom from start to finish. This thing, produced by the legendary Roger Corman and scripted by his lesser known and lesser talented brother Gene, is also a fine example. "Night of the Blood Beast" is a terrific misleading title and shenanigans are made complete by the awesome DVD-cover (showing monstrous claws holding a ripped off human head) and the savory tagline "No Girl Was Safe!". This so-called blood beast doesn't even specifically target girls and none of the attack take place during nighttime. The first half hour is unimaginably boring and the second half hour – luckily it's only 62 minutes long – is ridiculously absurd. The first man in space stupidly crash-lands his ship in a remote desert area. His brilliant scientist friends declare him dead, by all known medical standards in fact, even though his blood cells remain quite active and alter in structure. It looks like there was an alien life force traveling along with the astronaut and that it planted embryos inside of his body that keep him alive. Poppa monster seeks contact with the rest of the group, in the hope they won't destroy his babies. The monster looks like a decomposing baby elephant and the whole movie just gets retarded when the alien starts speaking. The acting performances are wooden (especially the females) and the direction by Bernard L. Kowalski, who also made "Attack of the Giant Leeches" and a personal guilty pleasure of mine called "Sssssss", is thoroughly unremarkable. There's also a tiny positive note, however. With a slight bit of imagination, "Night of the Blood Beast" can be interpreted – along with "It! The Terror from Beyond Space" that came out the same year – as a predecessor to the almighty Sci-Fi landmark "Alien". Both movies introduce story lines that formed the main basis for Ridley Scott's classic. "Night of the Blood Beast" is probably the first movie that brought forward the idea of a human body serving as a breeding ground for alien life forms. Still, in spite of this fun trivia fact, it nevertheless remains a boring and stupid film.