It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) / Curse of the Faceless Man (1958) - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - August 12, 1958

I remember reading comments and commentary, some positive and some negative, about the obvious debt that Alien (1979) owed to It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958).

If I were to dig back into the fanzines of the late 50s and early 60s, would there be comments and commentary about the obvious debt that It! The Terror from Beyond Space owed to The Thing from Another World (1951)? The chances of that having been the case might range from "Perhaps" to "More than likely." Because if there is one thing fandom loves more than enjoying and engaging with genre output, it is bitching and moaning about how that very same output is being done wrong.