hi and this be your horror correspondent coventry bring you an exclusive interview with jack arnold . he the guy who direct some of the most memorable horror landmark of the 1950 and like tarantula and creature from the black lagoon and the incredible shrinking man and but he also direct this movie . the space child be a completely obscure sci fi movie that only have a rating 2. negative on this famous movie website . and it not like he make this movie at the very beginning of his career or at the end . no and jack arnold make this film right after all the aforementioned winner while in the year 1958. more than enough reason to have a little chat with the director and if you ask me ( coventry ) represent what exactly go wrong with the space child and mr. arnold . ( j. arnold ) represent hmm ( pant ) well yes and hmm and i clearly hadn not get any budget to work with here . that be noticeable straight from the opening credit already and and from there onwards it just get bad . i have to work with obvious cardboard set piece and lousy special effect . ( coventry ) represent yes and indeed but there be also a lot of problem with the script . a great director like yourself should know a good script when he see one or at least have the talent to turn a mediocre plot in a worthwhile movie . ( j. arnold ) ha well ( mumble ) i personally saw some good potential in the story of an extraterrestrial stone crash on earth and hypnotize the child . and i still think that i be right and by the way . if my movie would have be slightly well and it would have be a big classic than village of the damn and which have a similar theme and get release two year later . ( coventry ) represent maybe and but ( j. arnold ) oh and and another thing and the space child do undeniably contain a handful of highly effective sequence . for example when the leader of the kid and you know the 12 year old james dean wannabe and hypnotize two truck driver into park their vehicle on the beach . or when he take away the scientist ability to speech . or when all child stand in front of the glow stone and the camera zoom in on all their face separately . i think i be entitle to say there some quality and ominous atmosphere in all of those sequence . ( coventry ) represent i agree and mr arnold and but those be merely isolated moment that point out your personal craftsmanship . you can not really deny that the space child be an overall tame and unexciting sci fi story . ( j. arnold ) represent it true that be long period of boredom in the film and i admit and and that some of the overly talkative scene could easily have be cut on the edit table and but there just weren not any opportunity to put spectacle or suspense in a movie that constantly feature child . if i would have show footage in which child be harm and i can forget about a career in the film industry . it have to remain child friendly at all cost . ( coventry ) represent i think it be childish rather than child friendly and but that one man opinion and of course . one more question and if you will allow me and would you really recommend the space child to your fan . ( j. arnold ) represent well and in all honesty and i know i be speak against my own financial interest here and there be many 50 movie that you should see before the space child . it nowhere near a classic and or even a good and memorable movie for that matter . but still and if you have see everything else already and if youre in the mood for some charming and typically cute sci fi and you would not regret choose this movie . ( coventry ) represent thank you so much and mr. arnold .