Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

utgard14 Invisible aliens stationed on the moon have had enough of Earth's atomic tomfoolery. So they use reanimated dead bodies of humans to let the nations of the world know they mean business, delivering an ultimatum that Earth better surrender to them or else! Now a group of people gather together in a bunker laboratory to work on a way to defeat the invisible invaders while zombies lurk outside.Edward L. Cahn directed this campy and cheap sci-fi movie with a muddled anti-nuke message. The special effects are poor with an overuse of stock footage and a monotone narration (one of the staples of no-budget sci-fi flicks back in the day). Still, Cahn produces a reasonable amount of atmosphere and it kept my interest throughout. The short runtime helps. It stars washed-up stars John Agar, John Carradine, and Robert Hutton, along with Jean Byron (of Patty Duke Show fame) and venerable character actor Philip Tonge. Other reviewers have pointed out that the movie might have inspired Night of the Living Dead. Whether that's truly the case or not, I don't know, but it is certainly something for movie buffs to chew on. Not a particularly good picture but fun in its way. Fans of '50 sci-fi will like it more than most.

Scott LeBrun Hostile extraterrestrials reveal themselves to mankind when one takes over the dead body of the deceased Karol Noymann (John Carradine). They've been living in secret on the moon, having exploited the fact that normally they're invisible to the human eye. Now they've decided to conquer the Earth, and only a select few will be able to save the day: intrepid hero Major Bruce Jay (John Agar), Noymanns' associate Dr. Adam Penner (Philip Tonge), Penners' daughter Phyllis (Jean Byron), and young scientist John Lamont (Robert Hutton).This is must viewing if you're a fan of Carradine, Agar, or both. Carradine isn't seen on camera very much, but his booming voice is used to great effect, to function as a voice for the alien intelligence. Agar is as likable as he's ever been. Hutton is fine as the man who begins to crack under pressure. The best performance would have to be from Tonge, however; he's so remarkably sincere that he helps to completely sell the material.Ably directed by prolific B movie specialist Edward L. Cahn ("It! The Terror From Beyond Space"), "Invisible Invaders" does give away the fact that it's low budget from the start, with most of the action confined to one main set - an underground bunker - and a dialogue heavy script. Making a difference are some of the details, such as the way that the creatures manipulate dead human bodies, and the subsequent hordes of the walking dead that prefigure George A. Romeros' landmark horror film "Night of the Living Dead". Our heroes come up with a novel way of confining one of the enemy, and in the end also devise an amusing solution. Despite a lot of talk, the pacing *is* adequate enough, and this clocks in at a very reasonable 68 minutes long.Written by Samuel Newman, who was also responsible for the bad movie classic "The Giant Claw" - which also featured a character named Karol Noymann.Six out of 10.

Michael_Elliott Invisible Invaders (1959) ** (out of 4) Incredibly silly film about an invisible alien who comes to Earth to once again try to wipe us all out. Thankfully for us humans Maj. Bruce Jay (John Agar) is on hand to try and save us. INVISIBLE INVADERS has the reputation of being one of the worst films ever made but I think that's a tad bit too harsh for a number of reasons. The biggest for me is that it's hard for a 66-minute movie to be the worst ever made because the filmmakers are at least smart enough to not keep giving us stuff to make the movie run longer than it should. The 66-minutes actually go by rather fast for the most part and this is always a good thing. Another thing this film has going for it is that we're given some familiar names that cult and "B" movie fans are going to know. Agar certainly looks a bit tired here but maybe he just wasn't feeling good during the production. He's at least entertaining and has no problem carrying the film. John Carradine appears briefly at the start of the picture and while he's certainly not reaching the levels he did in THE GRAPES OF WRATH, it's still fun seeing him. Jean Byron plays the female/love interest and does a nice job as well. Robert Rutton is also in the cast and adds some charm. The special effects are pretty bland as usually we just gets piles of dirt "moving" to show us the invisible creature or we get branches moving. These certainly aren't groundbreaking but at the same time they could have been a lot worse. There's some stock footage used throughout with the funniest bit happening when a plane crashes, due to the aliens, but the stock footage is from a test run and you can see the "X" mark to where it's supposed to hit.

dbdumonteil The movie was done on a shoestring budget ,for all that demands a lot of money (the adventures of the aliens on their planet,in Space ,on the Moon) is told by a grating voice over which explains everything to us -and another one for the voice of the invader(s)- and sometimes becomes preachy,urging the countries of the world to get together and to stop building their atomic bombs ,which makes the flick look like a rehashed "the day the Earth stood still" as far as moral is concerned).Besides the main idea of the screenplay was borrowed from the highly superior "invasion of the body snatchers" which I urge sci-fi buffs to see immediately if they think that the genre produced only lousy movies in the fifties.The last scene sells the fin de decade audience universal utopia.