A man, while out on his boat, passes through a strange mist. A few months
later he notices that his clothes are too big, he's lost weight and he can no longer please his wife. He goes to
the doctor and yep: he's shrinking! At first
it's not too bad, but soon he's only a few inches tall. He moves into a doll
house placed in their living room. Then one evening his wife accidentally lets a cat in and it attacks him. He manages
to escape, by falling off the basement stairs into a pile of clothes, but when
his wife sees the remains of his bloody shirt and the cat licking it's paws, she automatically
assumes that her husband's dead. (You would think that they could at least x-ray the cat to see if there was a human corpse in it's cute, furry belly.) He wakes up in the basement and since he's only a
few inches tall it's like he's on a alien planet. Soon he gets hungry and starts searching for food and, hopefully, a way out.
This is a
very interesting premise for a movie, but it's just too slow.
I'm sure back in 1957 this movie was thrilling audiences, but
watching it now I found it to be a little boring. The spider scenes were fun
though!
Worth watching, but don't expect too much.
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