1950s Sci-Fi Hysteria | Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

Retrospective reviews and scholarship confirm the status of cult classic of the film. The film was remade in 1993 by HBO under the same title Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman. It was directed by Christopher Guest, with a script by Thirtysomething writer Joseph Dougherty. Daryl Hannah produced the film and starred in the title role. In early February 2024, Variety reported that Tim Burton and Gone Girl writer Gillian Flynn are developing a remake of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman for Warner Bros. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a variation on other 1950s science fiction films that featured size-changing humans: The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), its sequel War of the Colossal Beast (1958), and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957); in this case, a woman is the protagonist.