Invisible Invaders |
USA • 1959 • 67m •
   • Directed by: Edward L. Cahn. • Starring: John Agar, Jean Byron, Philip Tonge, Robert Hutton, John Carradine, Hal Torey, Paul Langton, Eden Hartford, George Bruggeman, Dick Cherney, Rudy Germane, Don Kennedy, Jack Kenney. • Music by: Paul Dunlap.      Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity unless all the nations of earth surrender immediately. Sequestered in an impregnable laboratory trying to find the aliens' weakness, Penner, his daughter, a no-nonsense army major and a squeamish scientist are attacked from outside by the aliens, who have occupied the bodies of the recently deceased.
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The movie's best parts are the stock footage of real-life disasters that also cover for the bland narrative: wow, crashing buildings, exploding dams, fiery skyscrapers. Then there's the great John Carradine who's the movie's scariest part. Too bad we don't see more of him. But, please, someone tell the writers that the moon, where the invisibles live, is not a planet. I guess someone flunked Night Sky 101. Plus, someone please wake up actress Byron who manages one bland expression for the 70-minutes, which all things considered seems understandable. Speaking of zombies, catch the mob of undead all in businessman suits and eye-liner. Boy, is that a change, not a woman or working man in sight. I figure they must be the producers anxious to again save production costs.
All in all, it's a scary movie that doesn't scare, though I would give bonuses to Agar and Tonge who give it a real try.
Review by dougdoepke from the Internet Movie Database.
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