The Incredible Melting Man

About The Incredible Melting Man

An astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn's rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.

The Incredible Melting Man (1977) is a horror science fiction film directed by William Sachs. Its themes are transformation, body horror, astronaut, and accident.

Alex Rebar stars as Steve West, Burr DeBenning as Dr. Ted Nelson, Myron Healey as General Michael Perry, and Michael Alldredge as Sheriff Neil Blake. At 84 minutes long, it arrived in November 1977.

The screenplay is by William Sachs. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and fuboTV in the United States.

Annihilation, The Substance, and The Fly make useful companions to The Incredible Melting Man, all filed under disfigurement. TMDB voters put it at 4.6 out of 10 across 96 votes and it carries a R rating.