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This is one of the dumbest movies ever made - but I still get a kick out of watching it over and over again. First - John Carradine is vaporized in an atomic lab explosion and yet an invisible invader (which somehow has to drag its feet in the sand as it walks) can still take over the body. Second - if someone got on the P.A. at a hockey game today and said the world is about the end, some of the guys in the cheap seats would go up there and beat him up instead of running away. Third - how many times can they use the same scene of the zombies stumbling down the hill outside the army bunker? This movie is so stupid, it's frightening, but for some reason I love it.

Spooky little horror film that had tentacles which reached far and wide. Many other filmmakers may have taken a dip in this cinematic pool. Don't snicker. Checkout the walking stiffs in business suits staggering around the countryside. Remind you of anyone? The last survivors--holed up in some sought of army bunker--predict a future bird flick. The clash between scientists, civilians and the military is always a staple of the action genre. There may be others, but I would have to watch it again. I first saw this on Creature Feature back in the 70's. It spooked me out to the degree that I swore off this type of movie until Chiller Theatre came on later that night. I came across it again about a dozen years ago when it turned up on New Year's Eve. Weird. Someone's idea of a joke? Recently, I bought it in tandem with another John Agar film called Journey to the Seventh Planet. John Carradine stumbles around as one of the corpses and does very well. Some of the extensive stock footage defies logic. A plane crashes into a marked bulls-eye on a hillside. It looked like a military training ground. The invaders are defeated with the simplest of weapons. They usually are.

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.

Invisible invaders arrive in invisible spaceships and warn Earth they can and will take over the planet in three days. To do this they take over the bodies of the recently dead. Sound familiar? Well hold on because this 1959 thriller got here before PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE (1959), LAST MAN ON EARTH (1962), and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968). John Carradine picked up a quick paycheque playing Dr. Karol Noymann, a scientist killed in a lab explosion who becomes the first one resurrected by the aliens. (Interesting enough "Karol Noymann" was also the name of a scientist in the 1957 sci/fi'er THE GIANT CLAW directed by Fred F. Sears. Coincidence?) Air Force officer John Agar and spineless scientist Robert Hutton spend way too much of the 66 minute movie fighting over who gets to fall in love with femme physicist Jean Byron. The briefly seen alien invaders look suspiciously like the title monster in IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE; and since Edward L. Cahn directed both pictures it is highly likely that he did not want to waste a chance to re-use the costume. Many movies ask us to suspend our disbelief but this one demands we leave all logic outside before we enter the cinema. The aliens, via Mr. Carradine, inform us that they invaded the moon 20,000 years ago and destroyed the civilisation living there. They have also managed to make everything on their planet invisible, which probably means they spend a lot of time bumping into things. The destruction of Earth is accomplished by stock footage from action serials and newsreel footage of real life disasters. B-movie fans will note that Hal Torey, playing a farmer killed by Agar in self defence and then returned to life as an invader, proved such a memorable figure that MTV exploited his image in commercials and on t-shirts for much of the late 1980's. Also showing up briefly is Chuck Niles who played the mad hunchback in Jerry Warren's memorable TEENAGE ZOMBIES. John Agar had fought monsters before in TARANTULA, THE MOLE PEOPLE and many others. He finally became a monster himself in the rarely seen 1962 thriller HAND OF DEATH. Robert Hutton would soon meet up with THE MAN WITHOUT A BODY (1959) and THE SLIME PEOPLE (1963). For all it's low budget short-comings this is a fun film; just the sort to make a Saturday afternoon enjoyable.

We don't see too much of John Carradine, but we sure hear a lot from him as the disembodied voice of the Invisible Invaders coming to a planet near you.

Carradine's a scientist who is killed in a lab explosion. His cadaver is then used by a group of aliens who are invisible to communicate with fellow scientist Phillip Tonge. Tonge's a Linus Pauling type, wanting the world to disarm before Armeggeddon. Of course one encounter with the invisible crowd and he's seen the error of his ways.

The aliens attack, opening the cemeteries and letting loose a gang of zombies on the world. Humans retreat to the underground and in one such bunker is Tonge, his daughter Jean Byron, fellow scientist Robert Hutton and John Agar to lend some military muscle to the project of finding the weapon that will destroy the invisible fiends.

Though it's not quite as campy as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Invisible Invaders is right up there. If I had to make a guess as to which player appeared in more garbage in his career, the answer would be John Carradine. His film career lasted over 50 years and a voice that gave life to Shakespeare was used for science fiction at it's worst.

I think Carradine just liked the paycheck and he also probably just loved hamming it up in parts like these. He made a lot of these awful films somewhat endurable.

Robert Hutton and John Agar were a couple of once promising players who had seen their best days and now were scratching out a living in science fiction. Jean Byron though would shortly see her career part as Patty Duke's mother in the Patty Duke Show.

But I'll bet she never saw sights in Brooklyn Heights like these invisible ones.

Carradine exploding in his lab at the start of this thing truly is a hilarious moment, and the film threatens constantly to tell us its tongue is in its cheek, but in the end the producers and director keep it within the boundaries of dour seriousness and quite possibly the worst movie of all time is the result. Mind bogglingly stupid on a mind bogglingly low budget with once respectable actors whose careers mind bogglingly came to this kind of pathetic dead end. A cult classic this should be for its kitschy awfulness and quotable bad lines. Plan 9 from Outer Space and Ed Wood unfairly get the rap for worst movie ever made. There are worse out there, Earthings. Keep watching the skies!

I have to admit this was fun to watch despite how ridiculously silly it was or maybe because of that. This isn't a zombie movie in the modern sense, but a sci-fi alien offshoot of the mind-controlled zombies out of the voodoo genre. It's a big slice of black & white American cheese all the way which seems to use a lot of disaster stock footage for invasion scenes that involve conventional sabotage, but it manages to be pretty entertaining anyways.

The director also made 50's sci-fi movie "It! The Terror from Beyond Space" (which helped inspire lots of trapped on a spaceship with a creature film, including "Alien") and the swimming zombified sailors guarding buried treasure film "Zombies of Mora Tau" (which I still haven't seen yet as of writing this review).

THE PLOT: A scientist ditches out on his gov't job because he opposes nukes. A fellow scientist killed in an experiment walks up to his house and has a chat with him, but its not his friend. It's an alien who is none too happy with where out technological advancements are headed (reaching nuclear technology and space travel) and the threat they could pose to their outer space alien race and they want us to surrender or die (this was a common sci-fi plot thread back in the day). They are apparently invisible as are their spaceships awaiting us at their hidden base on the moon and the aliens can take over corpses and walk around in them sabotaging our planet. It's a race against time for the scientists to find a method to combat the alien menace before the walking dead breach the military bunker.

It doesn't have a lot of the elements of modern zombie films like gut munching or turning from being bitten (though the aliens will inhabit your body if you are killed), but it's kinda fun and has some good silly quotes. So bad you might think it's good 50's sci-fi fun.

Shuffling reincarnated zombies.. reanimated by Invisible invaders? If you call your self a zombie fan then you HAVE TO SEE THIS...

STRANGE.. BUT Interesting... on a double bill with "fiend without a face".. it freaked out movie goers by the thousands..

i find it a very interesting movie,,, flawed.. but without a doubt... very very much worth a viewing...

"THE DEAD WILL KILL THE LIVING" so sayeth John Carradine!!

Adam Tanner.. you have had your warning..

the zombies walk just like the zombies in NOTLD, the make-up is very much the same as NOTLD and the eeriness is also obviously borrowed 10 years later as a basis for NOTLD... I cant believe John Russo or George Romero have never admitted to this fact. In much the same way that ALIEN was based on IT! The terror from Beyond Space!!

Obviously, a cut above "Planet 9 from Outer Space". It has good suspense and adequate production quality for the time, genre, and apparently the film's low budget. I would have loved it at the Saturday coke-bottle-top matinée as a 10 year old. It probably inspired many a producer/director's subsequent "zombie" movie. All in all, a tedious 1950's "good U.S. earthlings versus the heartless alien invaders" movie, which can be appreciated only as campy fun. Unfortunately, todays alien invaders are more insidious, not so identifiable, but just as deadly. Sad to see John Agar, who was a pretty good actor given his prior work, in such a stinker.

This is typical 1950's B movie fare but I think it is a few notches above the rest. Ok, the acting is a bit hammy and campy even with the talents of John Agar, John Carradine and Jean Byron. The idea of the film is unique. Aliens, invisible to humans land on earth, inhabit the bodies of the dead to take over the planet. There are some stretches of boredom as frantic scientists and military personel try and figure out a way to combat the "invisible invaders", but at certain times this movie can give off a few chills. The reason for this is because at certain times, the movie resembles "Night Of The Living Dead" some 9 years earlier. The scenes of the "invaders" rumbling around as the recently revived dead are quite effective. The dead are almost as convincing as they were in "NOTLD". They roam around seemingly with no purpose though they do have one, arms outstreched, emotionless faces with darkened eyes. Quite effective and chilling in certain areas. Rest assured this movie is not "NOTLD" and pretty much is typical B fare but it does provide glimpses of a soon to come clasic and can give you a chill or two. I'd say rent it or better yet, buy it for your collection. It's fun!

This is an amazingly crappy 1950s sci-fi film. While not the worst sci-fi film ever made, it does come pretty close! In fact, you know the film MUST really stink since the plot is a re-working of PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE! Like PLAN 9 (once voted the worst movie ever made), this film is all about an evil plot by aliens to reanimate the dead and use them to attack and destroy the living. However, while PLAN 9 probably cost about $49.37 cents to produce, this one had much better production values (probably at least $100 was spent on acting and sets alone!).

So, aside from a re-hashed plot, what does this film have to offer? Well, like PLAN 9, it also is jam-packed full of stock footage that takes the place of original content. Some of this footage is totally inappropriate--such as the one showing a test B-17 flying into a hill. While it was supposed to be caused by the evil aliens, the footage is of some military test, as it impacts onto a giant painted 'X'! The acting was pretty bad, but not as bad as Ed Wood acting. John Carridine (who would appear in ANY film for a buck--thank goodness there were few porno flicks made back then) appears in a small role where he overacts--even though he is a zombie! And the "King of low-budget films", John Agar is the star. Frankly, he looks pretty old and tired--probably because he must have hated the movies he was forced to act in late in his brief career. As for the rest, they generally were sub-par, but only a few were so bad that you laughed as they read their lines.

So what's my favorite part of the film? Well, Agar is in a fight and if he loses, a crazy scientist will let a murderous creature out to kill them all. So what do the other two actors do while this fight occurs?! Yep,...just stand there and let it all happen! The bottom line is that this film is only for people who like to watch and laugh at bad films (I am one of them). Otherwise, don't waste your time--it's THAT horrible!

Edward L. Cahn directed this incredibly inept film about (you guessed it) invisible invaders from the moon who announce to the world their intentions of mass conquest, and give an ultimatum: the Earth is to unconditionally surrender, or die. Needless to say, they resist, so the aliens use the bodies of the dead(!) to attack the living. John Agar plays an Army major who leads the fight against them. Woefully under-budgeted for its ambitions, since the plot has the earth being decimated, yet none of this is seen on screen, but instead told in voice-over and newspaper headlines! The viewer can see well dressed corpses shamble around trying to kill our heroes, with no success... A total BOMB.

This is one of those crazy but really fun science fiction films from the 1950s. Invisible Aliens are giving the Earthlings 24 hours to surrender or they will take over the planet! They will kill people and take over their bodies! The the thing I found the funniest is, when they captured the invisible alien - why didn't they try throwing paint, mud, powder or something on it to see it? They were wanting to see the one they captured... try a good paint that is hard to take off the skin to throw on him or it. OK maybe it would not work because he can take over the bodies of dead humans but it would have been worth a shot. It would not kill them but at least you might be able to see the one in the cell. LOL.

Over all this one just crazy, corny, cheesy fun. AND this one has John Carradine as an Alien - but you won't "see" much of him. LOL.

7/10

1959's "Invisible Invaders" truly represents the quota quickie, shot fast and cheap, then sent out to die a swift death at drive-ins across America. Nevertheless, such films being horror/science fiction, they continue to gain legions of fans through the years, no matter the merits of each. An alien invasion with invisible beings and spaceships looks easy on paper, but with literally nothing to work with, the actors are performing in a vacuum (an invisible alien had already starred in 1953's "Phantom from Space," a real no budget loser with a cast of no names). The notion of inhabiting the recent dead to carry out their world domination was used at least once before, in "Plan 9 from Outer Space," and would be revived for 1968's "Night of the Living Dead," which used radiation from space activating the brain as just one possible reason for its flesh eating zombies. John Agar fans can rejoice, as their hero gets top billing, and works hard to earn it. Robert Hutton fans (I know you're out there too!) also see him survive to the very end. Ah, but John Carradine fans like myself, well, there's very little bang for the buck. Killed off just a few seconds after the opening credits, we do see him emerge for one big scene opposite Philip Tonge, supplying exposition regarding the invaders' intentions and background, then becoming a disembodied voice heard on three more occasions thereafter. He may well be flattered to find his face adorning the DVD, despite his miniscule role; the producers at least utilized his remarkable voice to great effect. Certainly, better horror films lay ahead, but titles like 1972's "Silent Night, Bloody Night" and 1976's "The Sentinel" both capitalized on playing up his name value, yet never granted him the dignity of using that voice (one line of dialogue between the two). Billed last in the small cast is Eden Hartford, lesser known than her sister Dee Hartford, but better remembered as the current (and final) wife of Groucho Marx (she appears with him in 1957's "The Story of Mankind"). Actor Philip Tonge died in Jan 1959, some four months before this final film saw release (other notable titles of his include William Castle's "Macabre," Vincent Price's "House of Wax," and 1955's "Desert Sands," also with John Carradine). "Invisible Invaders" aired twice on Pittsburgh's Chiller Theater, Oct 17 1964 (followed by 1958's "War of the Colossal Beast") and Feb 17 1968 (following 1964's "Godzilla vs. the Thing").

This film was a nice try at making a sci-fi picture but the film was a low budget film with veteran actors looking for a quick buck. John Carridine Sr., played a role of actor and narrator along with John Agar,(Maj.Bruce Jay); Jean Byron,(Phyllis Penner) and Robert Hutton,(Dr. John Lamont). Zombies walked around as the Living Dead and people through out the United States were having their bodies stolen like in other pictures called "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". There were many experiments performed with very little success until they discovered a very simple method of destroying these Invaders of our planet from the Moon. You will notice the ground moving in this picture so beware, the moles just might get you too. Try to Enjoy

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.