I Married a Monster from Outer Space is a 1958 American horror science fiction film from Paramount Pictures, produced and directed by Gene Fowler Jr., that stars Tom Tryon and Gloria Talbott.

The film's storyline concerns Marge Farrel, a young wife who begins to realize that her husband is not the man he was before they married, and ultimately discovers he is actually an alien humanoid.

Finally, her doctor comes to believe her wild story, and he gathers up a posse of men he knows cannot be disguised aliens, having recently fathered children.

[citation needed] With I Married a Monster from Outer Space, both had some creative freedom, although Vittes was notoriously resistant to any changes to his script, to the annoyance of the leads.

[7] Variety's 1958 review wrote, "Fowler's direction, while sometimes slow, latches onto mounting suspense as action moves to climax.

"[8] Harrison's Reports declared, "This latest addition to the current cycle of science-fiction-horror melodramas is just as fantastic as the others in its category, but it is more imaginative than most and should prove to be a good supporting feature wherever such pictures are acceptable.

"[9] The Monthly Film Bulletin of Britain wrote, "This generally well-acted and -staged Science Fiction thriller, though novelettish in its personal story, has an intriguing situation and some effective, if rather sparse, trick camerawork.

[citation needed] The label L'Atelier 13 released a Spanish language DVD under the title Me casé con un monstruo del espacio exterior.

[13] The hint at a subtext of "sexual angst" by Tom Milne[11] is emphasized by German critic Georg Seeßlen, linking I Married a Monster from Outer Space and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) to film noir: Their subjects in common, states Seeßlen, are the distrust between the sexes and the depiction of marriage as a trap where the death of one partner seems inevitable.

[14] Sex is referenced continuously throughout the film, notes Cranny-Francis, and although the audience is aware alien–human coupling has occurred, the aliens fail when they cannot impregnate Earth women.

[16] In 1998 the now defunct UPN television network produced and aired a remake of the film titled I Married a Monster, with Richard Burgi as the alien husband.