What sets the film apart from other sensationalist horror flicks, however, is Richard Matheson’s intelligent script (adapted from his novel "The Shrinking Man"), and its thought-provoking themes. Making the most of its modest budget with clever use of oversized props and special effects photography, it features a number of startling scenes, as when a once-benign housecat and a spider are rendered grotesquely large and alien. He finds consolation in the stirring, quasi-religious epiphany that, though he is dissolving into infinity, his existence still has meaning.ĭirected by sci-fi and horror master Jack Arnold ( Creature from the Black Lagoon, It Came From Outer Space), The Incredible Shrinking Man bears all the traits of the best B monster movies of its era. As he continues to shrink, Scott turns to contemplation of his own, and man’s, place in the universe. After a mishap strands him in the basement, Scott begins a primitive struggle to survive in a domestic space turned strange and sinister landscape.
When just several inches tall, he retreats into a dollhouse, away from his caring wife. Dwindling at an alarming rate, Scott feels increasingly inadequate and menaced by his own home. An expert at a nearby research institute delivers Scott the truth behind this inexplicable phenomenon: Exposure to radioactive pesticides have caused his body to shrink. Months later, he notices that his clothes don’t quite fit anymore. At the outset of this sci-fi classic, ordinary businessman Scott Carey (Grant Williams) and his wife, Louise (Randy Stuart), are enjoying a sunny holiday on a yacht when a mysterious mist suddenly envelops their boat, leaving Scott covered in a strange substance.
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