It's a lot more interesting than its source, thanks to the special effects and Jack Arnold's taut, no-nonsense direction.

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Unless a viewer is addicted to freakish ironies, the unlikely spectacle of Mr. Williams losing an inch of height each week, while his wife, Randy Stuart, looks on helplessly, will become tiresome before Universal has emptied its lab of science-fiction clichés.

Bosley Crowther

The New York Times