After a radioactive fog descends upon a couple while boating, Scott Carey (Grant Williams) starts to notice he’s getting smaller. When medical experts confirm he is shrinking, his life is upended as he adjusts to his miniscule new reality. Using state-of-the-art special effects and maintaining the terror of Richard Matheson’s 1956 novel, this science fiction classic uses the metaphor of diminished size to analyze the decreasing influence of masculinity in 1950s American society. Inspired since childhood by Jack Arnold’s film, Almodóvar used similar imagery for The Shrinking Lover, a short within Talk to Her (2002), to infer a male nurse’s sexual exploitation of a comatose female patient.