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''Night of the Blood Beast'' is a 1950s sci-fi BMovie produced by Creator/RogerCorman (and his brother, Gene).

An outer space mission goes disastrously wrong as the solo astronaut returning to Earth has a malfunction on reentry. Curiously, the plummeting ship lands fairly intact, horizontally in a cornfield, and the astronaut's body is relatively intact (and is indeed still alive).

It turns out that the reason he's still alive is that an alien has commandeered his body to act as a surrogate mother, and has impregnated him with numerous shrimp-like alien babies.

The other problem is that the alien apparently hitched a ride with him, and is trying to prevent the humans from calling for help until the big plan comes to fruition. It's up to this team, isolated from the outside world, to save the day and thwart the impending alien investigation.

For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S07E01NightOfTheBloodBeast episode recap page]].

Not to be confused with ''Film/TheBloodBeastTerror''.
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!!Night of the Blood Beast contains the following tropes:

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: While "dead", Johnny manages to have a normal blood pressure. Blood pressure is caused the beating of the heart, and is measured by the highest and lowest pressures in each beat. Since his heart wasn't beating at the time, that's quite the trick.
* BronsonCanyonAndCaves: Most of the film's exterior scenes are shot at the canyon, and the climax is shot at the cave.
* ClosedCircle: The team is stuck in Bronson Canyon thanks to the alien destroying their vehicles and jamming their radio. This means that they have to rely solely on their own resources to chase it off.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Zigzagged. The alien does decapitate [[spoiler: Dr. Wyman]], but his severed head is never seen, also it isn't big enough to palm a skull. Donna and Julie, meanwhile, keep their tops on throughout the movie; it's John that gets shirtless.
* DamselInDistress: Donna gets grabbed by the alien while Steve 1 and Steve 2 are investigating John's wrecked capsule. She does nothing but scream in panic until the Steves chase it off.
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: The alien apparently needs other species to impregnate with its shrimp babies. Oddly compared to how this trope is usually played, the victim doesn't seem to mind it and spends the rest of movie trying to convince everyone else that the alien isn't a bad guy.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Once the alien reveals its idea of coexistence with the human race, John is appalled to have been singing the alien's praises and [[HeroicSacrifice gives his life]] to destroy it.]]
* HeroicSacrifice / RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: spoilered above.]]
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: The alien decapitates Dr. Wyman offscreen and leaves his body hanging from the ceiling.]]
* KillItWithFire: Since the alien can shrug off bullets, [[spoiler:the team winds up using Molotov cocktails to roast it to death.]]
* MarsNeedsWomen: The titular beast seems much more interested in the female characters than the rest of the cast. Odd, considering that earlier in the film it impregnated a ''man''...
%% * MisterSeahorse: John.
%% * MonsterIsAMommy: More like 'daddy,' John is the 'mommy.'
* OddlySmallOrganization: If this movie is to be believed, the support team for John's space mission consists of the other five characters in the movie, plus whoever is on the other end of the radio.
* OnlyMostlyDead: Put crudely, this is basically John's role for the first half of the film.
* ShootingSuperman: When the monster breaks into the room, one of the other characters immediately responds by shooting at it repeatedly -- which was previously shown to be ''completely ineffective''. The beast doesn't show fear or pain until they throw a lantern at it and it almost catches fire.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: After the group brings John's body back to the base, he spends the entire middle of the film shirtless. Justified at first, because the others were conducting medical examinations; but even after these are finished it is several scenes later before he puts on any clothing.


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