From Hell It Came

Infobox_Film
name=From Hell It Came


writer=Bruce Jay Friedman
Jack Milner |Richard Bernstein starring=Tod Andrews
Tina Carver
director=Dan Milner
music=Darrell Calker | distributor=Allied Artists
released=1957
runtime=71 mins.
language=English
producer=Jack Milner
amg_id = 1:92408

"From Hell It Came" is a 1957 horror film and science fiction film directed by Dan Milner and written by Bruce Jay Friedman and Jack Milner. It was released by Allied Artists.

Main cast

* Tod Andrews - Dr. William Arnold
* Tina Carver - Dr. Terry Mason
* Linda Watkins - Mrs. Mae Kilgore
* John McNamara - Prof. Clark

Plot

A South Seas island prince is wrongly convicted of murder and executed by having a knife driven into his heart. The prince is buried in a hollow tree trunk and forgotten about until nuclear radiation reanimates it in the form of the tobonga, a scowling tree stump. The monster escapes from the laboratory and murders several people, including the true murderer (the witch doctor, whom the tobonga pushes down a hill and is impaled on his own crown of shark teeth). The creature cannot be stopped, burned, or trapped. Only when a crack rifle shot drives the knife (which still protrudes from the creature's chest) all the way through its heart does it finally die and sink into the swamp. A pair of American scientists save the day.

Reviews

"From Hell It Came" inspired one of the most infamous movie reviews of all time: "And to hell it can go!".Fact|date=July 2008 Film critic Leslie Halliwell called it "absolute rubbish". According to Tim Healey it deserves an honoured place in the canon of the world's worst movies. [Tim Healey (1986) "The World's Worst Movies". London, Octopus Books: 8-9]

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External links

*imdb title|id=0050414|title=From Hell It Came