--- title: 'The Incredible Melting Man (1977)' type: 'film' director: 'William Sachs' released: '1977-12-23' runtime_minutes: 86 certification: 'R' genres: - 'Horror' - 'Science Fiction' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-incredible-melting-man-1977' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076191/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Incredible Melting Man (1977) 1977 · R · 86 min · Horror, Science Fiction · United States ## Synopsis The Incredible Melting Man is a 1977 American science fiction body horror film directed and written by William Sachs. 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. During post-production, the producers reshot scenes without Sachs' participation. 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. While writing and shooting, Sachs was influenced by Night of the Living Dead. 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [William Sachs](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-sachs) - **Screenplay:** [William Sachs](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-sachs) - **Editor:** [James Beshears](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-beshears) ## Cast - [Jonathan Demme](https://cinepixo.com/people/jonathan-demme) - [Michael Alldredge](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-alldredge) - [Myron Healey](https://cinepixo.com/people/myron-healey) - [Burr DeBenning](https://cinepixo.com/people/burr-debenning) - [Alex Rebar](https://cinepixo.com/people/alex-rebar) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-incredible-melting-man-1977 Film facts: Wikidata (Q2069757); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.