I feel like a new toothbrush. 

Even in the 50's, Universal still followed the same formula of ending their monster pictures with a sad death interrupted by the glaring high note Universal theme.  This Island Earth is a film which I had heard about but never knew what it was about.  Seeing as how this year's festival hasn't explored sci fi alien elements much, this was a fine film to choose.  As mentioned, Universal seems to re use their monster formula over and over up until this film which is considered by many, the very last original Universal monster film,  Sure there were Creature sequels but I said original, didn't you read that?  As such, the formula of the tri tone music introducing the monster is there as well as the monster itself not really being good or bad. In this case, they were created as slaves and then attacked, the monster is just fighting back in the limited screen time it has.  It first appears within the last 20 minutes it appears maybe for a total of 2 minutes if we're being generous.    The plot of the film is interesting, a smart scientist volunteers for a mystery project which he later disagrees with and tries to back out of.   The project is run by a bunch of butt head grey haired Tony Curtis look likes.  How many kids know Tony Curtis?  He's the father of Jamie Lee Curtis who was in the last screening we did  Halloween and is also currently in theaters with the sequel/reboot also called  Halloween.  Anyway, all the leaders are aliens from a planet called Metaluna and they all have the same Curtis haircut but with butts on their forehead.  Solid plot, another rare movie which could be nicely remade today but won't because Universal doesn't care about its monsters unless they can pimp them out for new Blu Ray releases or the occasional Horror Nights maze.  Since Universal is reading this, I hope they do remake it or do a sequel and the mutant is on screen more, that would be great.