Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman

This is about a woman who is at the end of her rope with her philandering husband. It's driving her to drink and she starts to see things, such as a very large translucent sphere plopped down in the middle of the old country road she is driving along. Imagine her terror when a giant emerges from the unidentifiable plopped down in the middle of the road object and proceeds to reach out with his big hairy ugly rubber paw to try and snatch the priceless jewel hanging from Mrs. Archer's neck! But wait...is she dreaming this all up or was that REALLY some kind of creepy gigantic space individual out there!? Will ANY of the townspeople or the police or the good doctor or her good for nothing scheming lout of a husband believe her? Of course not. All of this plays out for a good hour before we get to see what the exposure to the UFO's ugly giant has had on Mrs. Archer, which is, to cause her to grow to gigantic proportions herself. During the final 10 minutes of the movie we get to see the actual 'Attack of the 50 foot Mrs. Archer' slowly stalking across the countryside in a trance-like state, searching high and low(mostly low)for her snake of a husband. This was the best part of the movie as we see the giant scorned wife trudging across the land(sort of like the artwork for the cover but not really. she never really straddles some busy highway reaching down to grab some unfortunate automobile). The vintage 50's special FX make the 50 ft. wife look eerily almost see-through but the chillingest aspect is her unemotional walk and the passive look on her face. It's interesting looking at the extremely low budget FX used at this time-the audience back then didn't question for a minute the ludicrousness of the special effects and in fact were quivering in their seats watching a ridiculously fake rubbery hand feebly trying to scoop up a citizen or when the overgrown Mrs. Archer clutches what is clearly a mannequin in a suit (representing the lowly Mr. Archer.)                                                       4/19/08