"I now pronounce you monster and wife. You may
lift the bride."
lift the bride."
A 1958 American Sci-Fi Horror film directed by Gene Fowler Jr , which has a newlywed (Gloria Talbott) suspecting something is off with her husband (Tom Tryon), as he is not the same as he was before they got married.
The movie also stars Peter Baldwin, Robert Ivers, Ty Hardin, Ken Lynch, John Eldredge, Alan Dexter, and James Anderson.
It was released in October 1958, as part of a double feature with The Blob.
Tropes for the film:
- Evil-Detecting Dog: Marge wonders why her husband, Bill, (having been possessed by an alien) no longer likes the dog she bought him as a present, and vice versa. He eventually kills it and tells her it died in an accident. In the climax, some German Shepherds are more effective than bullets in taking on the aliens.
- Mars Needs Women: The aliens are replacing the human men in a desperate attempt to perpetuate the species as their females all died out. One of the aliens (Bill, Marge's husband) does say that they've been working on making interbreeding possible. IMaMFOS is also rare in that the aliens are rather sympathetic, especially compared to the Jerkass local guys who keep refusing to marry their girlfriends, preferring to spend all their time drinking and whoring... though they have also kidnapped various women's husbands to breed with their wives and are much poorer partners than those they replace.
- Tagline: "The bride wore terror!".
