The Eye Creatures 1965AKA: Attack of the the Eye Creatures Director: Larry Buchanan Starring: A very bad remake of 1957's Invasion Of The Saucer Men. We've got two distinct plots happening here. Plot One: Some really dumb branch of the U.S. military is investigating flying saucers when one lands right in their lap near a local lover's lane. The government wants to hide the truth from the public because if we knew that saucers really exist we would go nuts and panic in the streets. Yup, that sounds like us. These army guys have set up a remote camera near the saucer so they can keep an eye on it but the two yokels that are manning it keep zooming in on the kids who are necking up a storm in the cars. Then they try to open up the hull of the ship with cutting torches but end up blowing it half way to hell. These poor saps never do get to see an alien because the space guys are busy tormenting the 30 year old teenagers. I wouldn't trust these guys to guard an outdoor crapper. Plot Two: Two of the teens run over an alien with their car. The alien's dead but it's severed hand survives and punctures one of the tires. The kids leave the car and walk off to phone the cops. While they're gone an alien kills a human and stuffs him under the car in place of the dead creature. When the cops arrive they discover the dead man and arrest the kids. The cops laugh off the idea that the teens had struck some kind of monster. The kids decide the only way to clear themselves is to escape and go find some evidence. So how do they accomplish this? Simple, they just walk out the unlocked back door and take off in a police cruiser that conveniently had the keys left in it. Ain't that easy? While snapping a photo of one of the aliens our hero teenagers notice that the beast flopped to the ground as the flash went off. They reason that the aliens are allergic to light. They rush up to the lovers lane and get the other kids to follow them in their cars. They then surround the creatures and turn on the headlights, killing all the aliens. This is definitely one of the worst flicks I've ever had the pleasure to view. The monster costumes are horrible. About the only way I could discribe them would be to say they look like a deflated Michelin Man from Ghost Busters that had the further misfortune of being run over by a bulldozer. In the original 1957 film the aliens killed people by injecting alcohol into victims with their claws. In this one, an autopsy on the guy found under the car revealed he had died of alcohol poisoning. This lets the kids off the hook for killing him. The scene explaining how the guy got the alcohol into him was either cut from the version we saw or was never in it to begin with. Also, the color was so washed out that I thought it was filmed in black and white until I saw a red car roll by. We taped it off a late show. And, as is normal for these pictures, the teenagers are all in their late 20's to early 30's. John Ashley, veteran of many juvinile movies a decade earlier, was 31 at the time. Most of the acting is not great. When an alien attacks a person all we get to see is the creature flailing it's arms at the camera. I wanted to personally shoot the two idiots that are stationed to watch the goings-on by remote camera. It's supposed to be a comedy routine but it bombs badly. Very cheesy indeed. Final verdict, steer clear of this one. Unless you really, really like bad movies.
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