The Man from Planet X

The Man from Planet X (1951) is an early science-fiction thriller — watch online on iFILM. Director Edgar G. Ulmer sets the story on the Scottish moors, where a group of scientists tracking a wandering planet suddenly has something more immediate to deal with: a small spacecraft has set down in the fog outside their station.

The figure inside does not speak. It sits and waits. Nobody can determine whether it is asking for help or preparing something worse. Ulmer shot the entire film in six days on a minimal budget — no elaborate effects, just fog, silence and a face that gives nothing away. For a picture made in 1951, it generates something closer to dread than adventure. Stream The Man from Planet X (1951) on iFILM.