X (1963)

AKA: X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

Film details

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DirectorRoger Corman
Year1963
CountryUSA
TypeMovie
Runtime79m
CastRay Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt, Don Rickles

Review

"There's always a raw integrity in a Roger Corman film where parody and melodrama slip into moments of realism, an aesthetic contradiction of crude production values, outlaw characters and surrealist solutions. The Man With The X-Ray Eyes is just such a film, at times as bad and ludicrous as anything in the thrill genre, at others as brilliant and expressionist as an Antonioni of the same period. It's pop art, the Pathecolor tonality and Spectorama effects anticipating the psychedelic genre, just like the renegade doctor and his quest for a higher level of consciousness." - Lawrence Russell, Culture Court

Ranking history

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