Looking for more classic Horror reviews from Jules? Check out our “31 Days of Hammer”, “31 Days of British Horror”, and “31 Days of American Horror”, to hear his thoughts on some of the best (and worst) that the genre has to offer. Director: Bert I. Gordon Starring:  Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson, Larry Thor “What sin can a man commit in a single lifetime to bring this upon himself?” Sitting on the rights to Homer Eon Flint’s novella The Nth Man, AIP’s Jim Nicholson was the success of The Incredible Shrinking Man and quickly moved to cash in. Released only six months later, The Amazing Colossal Man would be helmed by Bert I. Gordon, who already knew a thing about giant creatures after films like King Dinosaur and The Cyclops. Following a similarly tragic path as it’s cinematic forebear, albeit with a more military focus than domestic, it’s a story of a man in the wrong place at the wrong time, who’s life is destroyed by that ever-present spectre of ‘50s horror and sci-fi… the atomic bomb. When a plutonium bomb test goes wrong and fails to detonate in front of a group of army guinea pigs, Lt. [...]