As a fan of sci-fi and B-movies, I found this a great book with a fun and surprised detailed setting leaning into its 50's sci-fi movie inspirations, while carefully balancing the Red Menace, McCarthyism and other elements of the time period. There is an impressively wide host of over thirty threats, from the all-consuming Aquatepillars, to the mankind-impersonating Crab-People, to the monstrous Centopus the hundred-legged cephalopod. Spread among the threats are a host of plot threads and adventure seeds that immediately made me think of half a dozen adventures I'd be excited to run with this game. The PCs are similarly drawn from the stock characters of the source material, with players inhabiting the Everyman, the Scientist, the G-Man or others. A major conceit of the game is that while the characters are inhabiting the situations as described, the players have a meta level that the game is also a movie, allowing some fun elements like the characters' ability to build up a meta-currency that allows...See more