The Incredible Shrinking Man
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat. From TMDB
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60 of 112 · most liked firstTonight for my Film II students: THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN and ON THE WATERFRONT.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). B Movie metaphysics par excellence. Also unsurprisingly a source of great behind the scenes shots like this one.
positive · AI labelView post →#MusicChallenge #WrongAnswersOnly 8/28 - Vast The Stranglers It's A Small World The video shows footage from one fave movie of mine: The Incredible Shrinking Man youtu.be/D2aEU862iPM?...
neutral · AI labelView post →4 📽 Faves: First-time watches in April. The Housemaid (1960) Sinners (2025) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) Also: People's Joker (2022), The Order (2024), Taipei Story (1985). #filmsky 📽 #Letterboxd @letterboxd.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Today is Wife Appreciation Day 💍 Post a favourite wife! (From TV or Film) Louise Scott from THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957). Director: Jack Arnold. Grant Williams, Randy Stuart. Existential sci-fi classic. Not gonna lie...star Grant Williams is a snack! A bite-size snack, maybe, but still.... #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 1100
positive · AI labelView post →The French remake of THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN will be released in theaters on 22 Oct 2025. Amazon Prime Video is listed as a co-producer, so we might get a streaming release relatively soon thereafter. #SizeSky cinedweller.com/movie/lhomme...
neutral · AI labelView post →144. The Incredible Shrinking Man (dir. Arnold, 1957). Full confession, I've always found this film... in the best possible way, so upsetting. It's both a poignant metaphor for disability and a nightmarish exploration of a sci-fi b-movie premise taken to its most existentialist conclusions.
positive · AI labelView post →Jack Arnold had a really wild career as a director. His films include: The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Mouse That Roared, It Came from Outer Space, Tarantula, High School Confidential, and a 1975 Fred Williamson movie whose title I will not say.
neutral · AI labelView post →That was during a period that monster-movie characters were doing well, and Roy probably liked THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN. Marvel mines its history both for fannish reasons and because times change. They’ve made billions from Ant-Man now. And then there’s Groot.
neutral · AI labelView post →Guessing it’s a remake of The Incredible Shrinking Woman, a Lily Tomlin movie that was on HBO round the clock in the early 80s, which was a remake of The Incredible Shrinking Man from the 50s.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) This film has incredible practical effects and sparked an entire genre of size-changing movies, but at its core, it's a feminist film about how the husband becomes increasing insecure and insufferable as his power and dignity are taken from him.
neutral · AI labelView post →Saturday, 12 August 1978. You've just enjoyed one classic sci-fi movie, Them!, the first half of the late-night Monster Double Bill on BBC2. Next up is The Incredible Shrinking Man. But, oh, sorry, you've got to sit through a news update and half an hour of cricket first. Arghhh! #RetroSciFi
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie years project Year 1957 (98/122) Now Watching 📽️ #1/13 The Incredible Shrinking Man dir. Jack Arnold rec'd by many
neutral · AI labelView post →For the record, The Incredible Shrinking Man is a much, much, much better movie than The Incredible Shrinking Woman. And I'm someone who actually *likes* The Incredible Shrinking Woman. #svengoolie
positive · AI labelView post →You can see the influence of this movie on The Incredible Shrinking Man and Attack of the Puppet People. #svengoolie
neutral · AI labelView post →While the ads are on, just a reminder that The Incredible Shrinking Man is on All4 for another 9 days. I’ve not seen it for so many years I watched it expecting to make fun of it, bit the special Effects aren’t too bad and I found the film really affecting, made me sad. #TheFilmCrowd
positive · AI labelView post →The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Jack Arnold (director) Based on a Richard Matheson story and his screenplay. I always liked this movie, despite an irritating score that swells and overacts, desperate to prompt every emotion it can muster. 📽 #PsychotronicPsunday #CriterionCollection #Filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →I imagine Dump and Muskrat the Man in the Movie The Incredible Shrinking Man until they become so small poof they are gone!
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie time! 11 of 100 #FamousHorrorMovies (and sci fi) I haven't seen yet The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Halloween! As we begin installment 112 in our daily tour through American fear and horror on film - THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN - it's signal boost time: if you've liked these threads, why not repost and urge a follow? Thanks! #filmsky #horrorsky 🗃️
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the odder sleep-talking incidents I know of is when a friend of my dad's began spouting dialogue from The Incredible Shrinking Man in his sleep and in unison with the TV that was playing it. (He'd been on a Navy ship where it was the only film to watch, and he had watched it a LOT.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Spider courtesy of the brilliant 1957 sci-fi film The Incredible Shrinking Man.
neutral · AI labelView post →2:45pm TODAY on @Film4 The 1957 #SciFi film🎥 “The Incredible Shrinking Man” directed by Jack Arnold from a screenplay by Richard Matheson + Richard Alan Simmons Based on Richard Matheson’s 1956 novel📖 “The Shrinking Man” 🌟 Grant Williams, Randy Stuart
neutral · AI labelView post →3. L'homme qui rétrécit (2025) This is a French adaptation of the original book, The Incredible Shrinking Man. (I still haven't seen the earlier US movie of the same name.) It had less interaction with people than I wanted, but I guess that was the point, since he was so alienated? A cosmic ending.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Incredible Shrinking Man ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Honey, I Shrunk the Existential Crisis #Shocktober 2025 Film No. 29—🧠 Mad Minds & Dark Descent A man exposed to radiation begins to shrink — a daft idea on paper, but The Incredible Shrinking Man… Continues at boxd.it/bwTm4v #filmsky #MovieChallenge #HorrorSky
positive · AI labelView post →New watch for me: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). Am still thinking of this movie days later and how they ever managed to get some of the shots and angles and size-differences they did. The set design is stellar. As is what it has to say about masculinity and our place in the cosmos. #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Watched The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957. Strange to see that the first thing he does is run out of money and the film paints the guy as a whinging arsehole. Second half is wonderful with great special effects for the time. Glad I watched this.
neutral · AI labelView post →An imaginative sci-fi classic that gets so much out of such a simple premise. My ★★★★½ review of The Incredible Shrinking Man on Letterboxd boxd.it/eKs4AJ #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) was a harrowing, horror movie. It still is. Yikes. Richard Matheson was a helluva writer.
positive · AI labelView post →"respectful remake reduces its hero while leaning hard into the original’s existential preoccupations": Jan Kounen’s THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (L'homme qui rétrécit, 2025) re-screens 4.45 today at Imagine Fantastic Film Festival projectedfigures.com/2025/11/02/t...
unlabelledView post →They have so much good stuff coming up - The Mummy, Godzilla vs King Ghidorah, Batman Forever, Shin Godzilla, JAWS, The Thing From Another World, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Psycho, their upcoming Universal Monster Film Series, Splatterflix! I'll likely be at a few of them.
unlabelledView post →The best sci-fi movie of the 1950s. Quite a feat.... My ★★★★★ review of The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) on @letterboxd: boxd.it/1CRveT
unlabelledView post →There's a ton of things I'd classify as favorite size stuff. I'll give mention to the Incredible Shrinking Man for a film, the hard to find masterpiece of literature "He Who Shrank" by Henry Hasse. Shoutout to the Ryan Choi atom comics too, some of DC's best.
unlabelledView post →Now watching the unMSTed The Amazing Colossal Man, which contains kind of a promising combat PTSD allegory but it gets lost in the clumsier B-movie conventions. Coincidentally it came out the same year as The Incredible Shrinking Man, which transcends those conventions entirely in a sublime ending.
unlabelledView post →I wish that an HD hybrid ratio cut of The Incredible Shrinking Man existed as part of the film was shot in 1.37.1 and the rest in 1.75.1 I just think it would be cool to have the AR mess with the viewer as Scott is going through his own size fuckery
unlabelledView post →It's Saturday night and MeTV is airing a movie about a man whose wardrobe is getting too loose, presented by a horror host whose wardrobe is getting too tight #TheIncredibleShrinkingMan #Svengoolie #SvenPals
unlabelledView post →The Incredible Shrinking Man, film, 1957. Man exposed to radiation just keeps shrinking and shrinking...
unlabelledView post →An ex-Navy colleague of my dad's was once on a ship where the only movie they had to watch (in the pre-VCR days) was The Incredible Shrinking Man, which they watched over and over until many of the sailors had memorized it and would recite the dialogue in unison with the actors on screen. 1/2
unlabelledView post →Tonight's #Criterion Channel movie is the Richard Matheson's #SF classic "The Incredible Shrinking Man." Matheson pitched and sold the idea to Universal, then wrote the novel.
unlabelledView post →This movie and The Incredible Shrinking Man were my favorites on Saturday afternoon reruns. Both had a message.
unlabelledView post →THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN! Crammed full of thrilling adventures and heady philosophical, it’s one of the finest B-movie creature features you’ll ever crawl across. Joined once again by animation professional Jared Music!
unlabelledView post →May 2026 Movie Challenge Day 13 - A film with "Man/Men" in the title The Incredible Shrinking Man (aka The Shrinking Man) (2025) boxd.it/iYS5 #Letterboxd #MovieChallenge #FilmSky #MovieSky
unlabelledView post →Just noticed that The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) is on Film 4/Channel 4 for another 16 days. 👍❤️ Not seen this gem for decades, that finale with the spider scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. 😀 #filmsky #moviesky
unlabelledView post →A random movie I love every day til I decide not to 225. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957, Jack Arnold) #FilmSky #MovieSky
unlabelledView post →The Incredible Shrinking Man was on Film 4 this afternoon. I’ve not seen it in many, many years. Couldn’t spare the time to watch today as I had chores, but happily it’s on All4 streaming for the next 29 days, so I’m really looking forward to watching soon. #TheFilmCrowd
unlabelledView post →February 22, 1957 - The Incredible Shrinking Man premieres. Based on the novel by Richard Matheson. The film grossed $1.43 million. In terms of percentage return on investment, only The Ten Commandments (which made a whopping $34.2 million) did better.
unlabelledView post →Jack Arnold returns to direct the sequel. He also did Tarantula, This Island Earth and The Incredible Shrinking Man! This one has B-movie favorite, John Agar.
unlabelledView post →The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) Trailer One of my all time favorite films, I forgot it was from the 50s. youtu.be/jqSBCeyg9bk?...
unlabelledView post →Studio execs decided to make this movie when the tarantula sequence from "The Incredible Shrinking Man" was a big hit with audiences. They used the same spider wrangler who used the same spiders.
unlabelledView post →My life's first film was "The Incredible Shrinking Man" at a drive-in cinema. I remember how you had to reach out and take a small speaker from its pole, and attach it to a side window of the car. It's taken me years to stop being afraid of spiders after this film!
unlabelledView post →Allen Ashley is training his eye on classic genre films, looking at not just the film but the context in which they were released. For the latest instalment in his new blog series, he's seeking The Incredible Shrinking Man. britishfantasysociety.org/classic-genr...
unlabelledView post →Our first movie marathon was 2011, when they were eight and four. We did The Fly (1958), The Incredible Shrinking Man, and ET that year. The next year was Jurassic Park, Planet of the Apes, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
unlabelledView post →The Incredible Shrinking Man Novel and movie from the 60’s You’re welcome
unlabelledView post →There's a new Francesca Scorsese tiktok where she's quizzing her dad with bad movie descriptions, and she describes The Incredible Shrinking Man, and for just a second I thought "no way she's asking him about Ant-Man"
unlabelledView post →Making my way through The Criterion Collection. #filmsky The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 Dir. Jack Arnold Spine 1100 Expecting a b-movie exploitation film and finding it to have existential depth to it was quite surprising. Adapted from the novel by Richard Matheson (I Am Legend). It is good!
unlabelledView post →Film rec: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) A Twilight Zone-esque story of a man shrinking into oblivion. It tones down the book's bold sexual, emasculating themes but still delivers campy thrills and existential ponderings. One of the best horrors of the 50s! #filmsky youtu.be/1i3sGFdZwDg
unlabelledView post →Of course #TheIncredibleShrinkingMan has a cat. All the better to chase him later in the movie. #Svengoolie
unlabelledView post →New 2023 faves: -Asteroid City -La Cabina (1972) -Dog Star Man -Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers -Fateful Findings -Flamenco -Greaser’s Palace -The Incredible Shrinking Man -Jimi Plays Monterey -Minamata Mandala -Monkey King with 72 Magic -The Movie Orgy -Night of the Juggler
unlabelledView post →On October 4, 2014, The Incredible Shrinking Man was screened on Svengoolie. . #Svengoolie #TheIncredibleShrinkingMan #SciFi #Drawing #CultMovies
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