![]() ![]() ![]() Sachs claimed that the producers decided during shooting that a straight horror film would be more financially successful, and that the film suffered as a result. The screenplay which Sachs dramatized was originally intended as a parody of horror films, but comedic scenes were edited out during production and new horror scenes added. With the changes by the producers, the final film has been described as a remake of First Man into Space (1959), which in turn was directly influenced by The Quatermass Xperiment, even though Sachs had never seen either of those films. ![]() While writing and shooting, Sachs was influenced by Night of the Living Dead. The film starred Alex Rebar as the main character, alongside Burr DeBenning as a scientist trying to help him and Myron Healey as a United States Air Force general seeking to capture him. During post-production, the producers reshot scenes without Sachs' participation. The plot concerns an astronaut whose body begins to melt after he is exposed to radiation during a space flight to Saturn, driving him to commit murders and consume human flesh to survive. The Incredible Melting Man is a 1977 American science fiction horror film directed and written by William Sachs. ![]()
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