Astronaut’s Wife, The - DVD (Good Quality), iPod/iPhone Version
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IMDB rating: 4.70 Plot: Astronaut Spencer Armacoust was on a mission when he suddenly lost contact. When he got home, to friends he was the same, but to his wife he was different. She becomes pregnant, but as time progresses she begins to feel like the lives inside of her are not of this world. |
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Actors: Depp Johnny,Morton Joe,Cassavetes Nick,Grubbs Gary,Noonan Tom,O’Brien Tom,Crider Michael,Stein Jacob,Wicker Timothy,Horror,Sci-Fi,Thriller,
astronaut in space crashes, gets treated by aliens but now looks like an alien, comes back to earth is killed.?
As he is dying, he gives a hand signal the wife recognizes… What’s the name of this movie
I haven’t heard of one in which the aliens change the astronaut’s appearance, but there is this:
The Outer Limits
"The Architects of Fear"
originally aired September 30, 1963, Episode 3, Season 1
starring Robert Culp, Leonard Stone, Martin Wolfson, Geraldine Brooks, William (Billy Green) Bush
IMDb synopsis:
This IMDb review goes into more detail and includes the part about the hand signal: ***SPOILERS***
A group of scientists conspire to halt the nuclear arms race by giving the world a new enemy to unite against. Their plan is to alter a man through surgical means to make him look like an extraterrestrial from the planet Theta, and then have their "scarecrow" deliver a declaration of war to the Assembly of the United Nations. After a draw of names, the unlucky scientist chosen to undergo the transformation is Alan Leighton. Being "refitted" to resemble something not human is difficult enough, but Alan must first leave his wife, Yvette, by faking his own death. The scenes establishing Alan’s relationship with Yvette are quite affecting and make the emotional blow when later she reads the telegram informing her of Alan’s "death" that much more impactive. Adding to the tragedy is the revelation that she is also pregnant with their first child.
The story then follows Alan’s painful transformation from human into Thetan, and these scenes are fascinating in their well-researched technical detail as the doctors discuss the how to’s of "alienizing" their colleague. The makeup work showing the various stages of Alan’s evolution is very effective, too, for the mid-1960s: His skin becomes reptilian, his digits are grafted together to form three-fingered hands, and even his mouth is reshaped. In one startling scene, Alan suffers a psychotic episode due to the chemical changes to his system. Then making a run for the phone he is sedated by the other doctors as he tearfully demands to be able to call his unborn son. Once his chemical imbalance is corrected, Alan undergoes the final surgical procedures and is turned into a startling bipedal creature with backward turned knees, gigantic cranium and eyelids that close from the bottom upward. Alan’s lungs are altered to make him breath a methane environment through a SCUBA-like breathing apparatus. This also renders him unable to speak, so he then has to use a device that transforms his thoughts into electrical signals. Realizing he’s at the point of no return, Alan looks for reassurance by asking with his mechanical voice, "Can it…really work?" The scheme is to have Alan land a space craft at the United Nations and inform the assembly of nations that he is the scout ship for an attacking Thetan force. However, when Alan takes off into orbit, his ship goes off course en route to the UN and lands in a wooded area. Emerging from the wreckage, he is shot by a party of hunters. With nowhere else to go, Alan limps back the lab~only to meet Yvette there. Through a vague psychic link that the two shared, she’d sensed throughout his ordeal that Alan was still alive. Ivette is at first terrified by the sight of the creature standing before her, but when it falls to the floor, THE CREATURE MAKES A HAND SIGNAL "FOR LUCK" THAT ONLY SHE AND ALAN KNEW {my caps}. Yvette then realizes who it is just before it dies of its wounds.
Here’s Part 1 on YouTube~which I plan to watch, having not seen this episode for at least 30 years or more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJwwIR0vX sw&feature=related
You also can access the episode on the IMDb page, as well as other episodes of this classic series.
I’m stunned that my mind came up with this since it’s been an extraordinarily long time since I’ve seen this episode. I can only estimate how long ago I might have watched it though I did see it when it first aired in the Sixties, when I was about 12 years old.
MystMoonstruck | Sep 07, 2009
I want to know this too. Sounds good
Llyn M | Sep 07, 2009
Ricky Sherman