While looking for movies in my local library (free rentals folks) I could not help but let out a shout of joy when through my rabid, drunken gaze I came across this title. Here is yet another flick from my youth that I watched on "Thriller Double Feature" on a regular basis. While boating with his wife, one Scott Carey passes through a bizarre mist on the open ocean. Days later, he starts to notice that his clothes are starting to become much to big for him, and that he's also losing weight at a rather rapid pace. Doctors are baffled by his condition, and there's not much he can do but watch himself shrink, shrink, and shrink some more. Seems that the mist was radioactive (wasn't everything in the fifties?) and is somehow causing his body to wither away. Soon he's an inch tall and living in a dollhouse, hounded by the press, and taking his frustrations out on his wife. "The Incredible Shrinking Man" is one of my all time favorite sci-fi flicks, and is just a joy to watch. The special effects are terrific; especially when you think that back in 1957 CGI was nowhere to be found folks. Actor Grant Williams (the shrinking man) runs around 15 ft mousetraps, scissors and the like. The oversized props looked great when I was a kid, and still look damn good today. You actually come to believe the dude is as big as a bug. The film of course really gets moving at the mid-way point, with Scott's famous fight with the house cat and his plunge into the great abyss of the basement where he struggles against hunger, spiders, and the impossible task of scaling the stairs. The flick moves at a nice brisk pace and is never at times boring. The only letdown is the ending which tries to get a little to "cosmic" on us, but that's ok. This one is a definite good time.