A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.
Practical Effects
Giant props and forced perspective that still slaps
Writing
Richard Matheson's script elevates schlock into sublime
Direction
Arnold turns a dollhouse into cosmic terror
Director
Jack Arnold
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Grant Williams wore child-sized clothes and walked on oversized sets; no green screen, just pure forced perspective magic.
Made at the height of Cold War radiation panic, it weaponizes domestic space into existential battleground—atomic anxiety made literal.
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