Not of this Earth

Almost rising above the silly and disjointed nature of the script, Roger Corman makes what is probably his best film to date: Not of this Earth, a nonsensical science-fiction/nuclear warning that uses the conventions of a thriller much more effectively than it does science/fiction, a genre that Corman, Griffith, and Hanna were still not really sure what to do with. This, though, represents a step in the right direction.

Paul Johnson (Paul Birch) is an alien on Earth who needs blood. The v...