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X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

United States

1963

79 Min
Color
English
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DIR Roger Corman

PROD Roger Corman

DP Floyd Crosby

CAST Don Rickles, John Hoyt, Harold J. Stone, Ray Milland

MUSIC Les Baxter

Synopsis

Dr. James Xavier is a world renowned scientist experimenting with human eyesight. He devises a drug, that when applied to the eyes, enables the user to see beyond the normal realm of our sight (ultraviolet rays etc.) it also gives the user the power to see through objects. Xavier tests this drug on himself, when his funding is cut off. As he continues to test the drug on himself, Xavier begins to see, not only through walls and clothes, but through the very fabric of reality! — IMDb

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Roger Corman

Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926), sometimes nicknamed “King of the Bs” for his output of B-movies (though he himself rejects this as inaccurate), is an Academy Award-winning American producer and director of low-budget movies, some of which have an established critical reputation: his cycle of films derived from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe for example. Corman is also a sometime actor, taking minor roles in such films as The Silence of the Lambs, The Godfather Part II, Apollo 13 and Philadelphia.

Corman has apprenticed many now-famous directors, stressing the importance of budgeting and resourcefulness; Corman once joked he could make a film about the fall of the Roman Empire with two extras and a sagebrush. One of the most expensive films he produced was Battle Beyond the Stars. —Wikipedia 

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Derek Godin

27Jul11

Classic, slightly campy sci-fi goodness.

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Lucas Granero

11Feb11

El hombre ve los extremos de la realidad y su percepción pasa a ser una película experimental. Una maravilla.

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cineaster

8Jul10

Rayons X, irisation, iris et Pathécolor pour parler d'un mégalo du cinéma, entouré de ténèbres et observé par un œil. Un vrai plaisir visuel.

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By Daniel Kasman on November 8, 2009

Two endings of catastrophic vision. (1) The terrifying vision of sight (space): (2) The tragic vision of memory (time

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