ALL SCI-FI

[Krel]

Bud, I LOVE IT! You just need to add the tag line to the label: The Taste Is Out Of This World.

David.

[Bogmeister]

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Odd mixture of sf alien invasion thrills and comedy, this is best known nowadays for the featured role by Frank Gorshin, who later became famous as the Riddler on the Batman TV show.

The plot is very similar to next year's The Blob. The young people are privy to the unexpected appearance of an alien threat — little green men — but are met with disbelief by the older generation and the establishment (the police).

This all takes place during one night, so most of the scenes are annoyingly dark. When I first watched this as a little kid, I admit that the alien's hands, with their bio-stingers, creeped me out.

Much of the plot involves a severed alien hand crawling around, usually inside a car. If it injects someone, that person probably will die, or so it seems.

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On the downside, the bulk of this film is pretty slow and just dull. There are numerous scenes, such as with a local farmer, that drag out and seem pointless. The highlight, late in the film, is a confrontation between one of the aliens and a bull.

But this is very low budget and even these scenes do not impress, coming across as silly and laughable. Though the aliens are of short stature, they are tough — bullets do not harm them — and the young folks need to find out their vulnerability to do them in.

There are parallel scenes of an army squad dealing with the landed alien saucer, but these are even more dull.

BoG's Score: 3.5 out of 10

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Galaxy Overlord Galactus

[Eadie]

The flying saucer:







A model of the flying saucer (no longer available):








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Art Should Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable.

[Bud Brewster]

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Thank you, Eadie!

That ship is really gorgeous! It's surprising that such a low-budget movie has such a beautifully designed saucer. It's a shame that the movie doesn't include scenes of it approaching Earth and landing in the woods.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Krel]

The ship was used in a couple of other movies. One in space in a movie who's title I can't recall, and as the alien craft in "The Invisible Invaders".

David.

[scotpens]

[Maurice]

There were some good photos of the original model in the book It Came From Bob's Basement.
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"The absence of limitations is the enemy of art."
― Orson Welles

[Krel]

[Phantom]

I've seen this a few times (the first in a drive-in around the mid sixties) but I've always by-passed it on Youtube for want of a better copy.

Was unsure I wanted it in my library, but what the hey? It's one of the few science fiction comedies worth re-watching.

Check around on Youtube for Frank Gorshin, one of the best of the stand up comedians and impressionists of the sixties.
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What Is Essential Is Invisible

[alltare]

[Gord Green]

If nothing else, this movie had one of the BEST posters of the era! Too bad it didn't live up to it....BUT...What the heck...A twelve year old sci-fi geek of the Fifties would be DAMNED not to go to see this at his local Saturday matinee theatre! He would never live it down at recess on Monday!!!
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There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

[Krel]

[Bud Brewster]