The H-Man (1958)

THE H-MAN  (1958)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Ishiro Honda
    Yumi Shirikawa, Kenji Sahara, Akihito Hirata,
    Koreya Senda, Makoto Satô, Yoshio Tsuchiya
A Japanese variation on "The Blob", in which radiation from atomic testing in the Pacific produces a "liquid monster" in the form of some mysterious green slime that can move through sewers, up walls and under doors, and make people dissolve. I've got a special place in my moviegoer's heart for this one, which I first saw by mistake at the age of 11 or 12. My dad dropped my brothers and me off at the Eastwood Theater on Atwood Avenue, thinking we were going to see some Disney movie about a dog or a horse. Somehow nobody bothered to look at the marquee, so we didn't know the program had changed till the lights went down and there we were watching "The H-Man". It was a formative cinematic experience. When you're a kid with a waning interest in Disney movies, anyway, you don't forget something like that.