Genuinely creepy, scary and intense. This movie is not scary like a slasher pic, with seat-jump surprises, but instead it works its effect through suggestion and atmosphere. The score helps the cause considerably, producing viewer anxiety through sound cues throughout the plot's advancement through scenes of ever-rising stakes. The visual direction is artful as well, using all the tricks of light and shadow, uncomfortable closeups, and visual scale to emphasize the scope of the danger. Truly one of the best sci-fi/horror films to come out of the 1950s, and maybe even one of the best of any genre. It has been remade multiple times, but in this case you should accept no, um, substitutes.
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