So much average

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

While out driving on Route 66, wealthy heiress Nancy Archer (Allison Hayes) witnesses something most travellers on the famous highway don't get to see: a massive spherical spaceship and its giant bald occupant. Being a bit of a lush with a history of mental illness, nobody will believe Nancy's story; her philandering husband Harry (William Hudson) and his floozy Honey see it as an opportunity to get Nancy committed and lay their mitts on her fortune.When Nancy insists that she and Harry go in search of the alien craft, Harry reluctantly agrees, never believing that they will find anything; of course, they do. Harry flees leaving his wife at the mercy of the huge extraterrestrial, but the being turns out to be friendly, returning Nancy to her home. However, exposure to radiation causes the woman to grow to gigantic proportions. Angry at her husband for his many indiscretions, she goes on the rampage.The problem with this film is that the 'mayhem' is reserved for the final ten minutes of the movie, and isn't all that spectacular anyway, the 50 foot tall Nancy (who looks a lot less than that in some shots) attacking a small-town hotel, rather than causing havoc on the freeway as per the film's iconic poster. The fifty-five minutes that precede this are dull and repetitive, the sight of the alien's massive, rubbery, hairy hand and a quick glimpse of Nancy's oversized fingers (papier-mâché over chicken wire?) doing little to alleviate the tedium. Furthermore, the special effects used to make the alien and Nancy look large are crude, even for a low-budget, drive-in B-movie: in many of the poorly composited shots, the giants are transparent.Despite being one of the better known schlock titles from the fifties, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a massive disappointment.

"I saw a satellite!" I take it this film was made -before- the universally known term "UFO" was around.Wow, what a lame load of garbage. Is this EVER a movie from the 50's - lots of cigarettes, lot's booze, lot's of convertibles and lot's of painfully shrill hysterics, but more Boredom then anything. I bet there are at least a handful of nostalgic souls out there, who consider this to be a classic. However, with complete confidence, I can tell you that it wasn't good then and it sure as hell isn't good now. Just another lame and tedious, vintage, low-budget Sci-Fi flick - which now, nearly 60 years later, is even less impressive. This movie actually started out well, but VERY briefly, I like it's title screen - but after that it's all downhill from there. Here's yet another example where a movie might have been good, had a completely different group of people worked on it.Included here is an incomplete list of things you can expect to see when watching Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. Right out of the gates you have the shrill and over-wrought acting from Allison Hayes, a gold digger husband and a cast of dull, paper-thin characters, painfully dated photographic effects (that you can literally see through that which is intended to be solid), hokey attempts at slapstick - that usually miss there mark and capping things off is a short-lived, very tepidly paced and entirely unspectacular finale. When she goes on her so-called rampage through town, the movements of our 50 foot maiden wield very little weight and even less speed, she emotes practically no emotion (a pleasant countenance if anything) and an overall VERY tame approach was taken. In short, this movie sucks. This stinking scrap of celluloid by-product currently maintains a (laughably inaccurate) 5.0 rating. After having seen the movie I can quickly and easily arrive at this conclusion, which is: Anyone who rates this weak and dated schlock above one or two stars, is obviously basing their rating from a purely and -completely- NOSTALGIC point-of-view (you can bet money on it) and that often has a way of over-riding people's logic and any critical assessment they might of had. Sorry to sound like a snob, but Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is exquisitely lame and those effects! Wwhheewww och! There are many good old black and whites out there, that are plenty worthy of nostalgic attachment, but with Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.................well, not so much.Another thing that I've noticed over the years, is that no Sci-Fi from the 50's is all that exciting (if they are, it's usually because of how terrible they are) and most Sci-Fi from the 50's (and beyond) are throw-away's. Sci-Fi is the hardest genre to excel in, evidently not everyone has the mind of George Lucas.Interesting Contrast's: The Incredible Shrinking Man vs. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. When you compare these two films, you'll find that they are absolutely the -exact opposite- of each other and here's why. Made only a year apart, in one the lead is played by man, the other by a WOman, one involves micro-nized size (1 inch tall or so), the other involves gigantism (50 feet tall) but most importantly, one of these vintage films is great - while the other is terrible. One is fun, the other a total bore.Did anyone notice that funny continuity? When the hubby was going to over-dose her with a syringe, then the nurse walks in, she turns on the lights, screams (of course) and he's suddenly holding a vastly smaller syringe.

ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN has two things going for it: Allison Hayes (do the math); she's definitely a stand-out in her bed-sheet bikini (IF that's what it is), even if she IS a tad "transparent" throughout most of the movie (those parts that actually FEATURE her, that is: she spends far too much time OFF screen, if you ask me). Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't her hair change color when she "blossomed?" Most of the movie's as gorgeous as the star, and the music is often Great; only the not-so-special effects tend toward Low End Laughs. Storywise, ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN is a Tragedy: the Heroine gets f---ed over by her sorry-a-- husband, then ends up dead. So much for Happy Endings...

One of the great camp classics of all time, Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman has a special place in the hearts of all those who love bad science fiction. But even bad science fiction is always made palatable by a little sex.Allison Hayes is breathtaking in the starring role, she's quite an eyeful in normal proportions. Hayes plays a dipsomaniac heiress stuck in a bad marriage with a no account rat played by William Hudson who has Yvette Vickers on the side. Hayes is fresh from the sanitarium where she's gone for a cure.Given that background her report of a large satellite and an encounter with a big giant emerging from said satellite is greeted with skepticism. But Hudson sees her ravings as a way of getting out of the marriage with a large settlement one way or another.But Allison will not be denied. When she through encounter with the giant's radioactivity grows to his size, it's look out world for a 50 foot woman scorned.I'm sure Allied Artists made a pile of drive-in money off this one. And Allison Hayes got a career role out of it as well.