“It!” is a very enjoyable but dopey Saturday evening cosmic horror watch. Plenty of thrills and scares to keep you enthralled but posing a great gap in logic. A spaceship exploring Mars is infested by an alien beast which manages to stowaway on the vehicle’s return trip to Earth. Once the requisite crew members start to mysteriously go missing on the ship, it is discovered that the monster from Mars is aboard and preying on Humans for sustenance. There are some creepy, shadowy encounters where the hapless victims are hauled off and stored away as food stuffs. This scenario is reminiscent of the great “The Thing” (1951): a collection of men and women occupying an inaccessible outpost which is dramatically and adversely infiltrated by an alien presence. And the Humans are on the Menu!

The illogical aspect of this tale is the manner in which the astronauts decide to subdue their stalker. The beast is moving through the ship’s air ducts (think “Alien” and the claustrophobic air ducts Dallas scrambles through aboard the Nostromo ship). Various access panels to the air ducts are then booby trapped with grenades to try and blast the beast into submission. Also, pistols and rifles are shot at the monstrosity inside the Earthbound ship. Wow! Talk about walking on the razor’s edge. They run the risk of annihilating themselves first before slaying the intruder. I guess the ships were built a bit sturdier in the old days.

Still, “It!” definitely has its charms and is a very fine view.