During the late 1970s, my family's weekly "Movie Night Dates" included a stream of back-to-back motion picture releases, ranging from musicals like "Grease" and "Thank God It's Friday", to horror epics like "Carrie" and the cinematic opus under review here: The Incredible Melting Man. I can remember standing in the lobby of the Chicago Theater (it was still a movie house then) as my mother, my brother and I were there to see Carrie, and beholding the poster for The Incredible Melting Man. It gave me the groovy weebie-jeebies, and almost immediately, I'd asked my mother if we could 'come back a...