The Eye Creatures

I just saw this greasy little movie over the weekend (thank you very much "Off Beat Cinema") and I was surprised to see that IMDb has the budget listed for this movie as being $16.000, I was guessing somewhere south of about $10.000, or even $5000. What the hell did they spend the other six grand on? The lead actor's hair gel? Maybe they should have invested in a spell-checker for the title.

A pair of alleged "teenagers" (who appear to be in their mid 20s, and seem like they're just reading their lines from cue cards) discover some sort of tennis shoe-wearing alien invasion while driving around in the dark/ broad daylight/ dark again one night(?), and the police don't believe them. Maybe if they would have told the cameraman to FOCUS the camera the police would believe them then? and the writers (Paul Fairman, Bob Gurney Jr., and Al Martin) might not have taken their names off of the credits?

IMDb lists this as being 80 minutes, but the version I saw was considerably shorter, probably only 65 or 70 minutes. But it was still a long 65 or 70 minutes.

Almost funny in a "so bad it's good" kind of way. Almost, but not quite.

"The Eye Creatures" is based on the slightly less ridiculous 1957 movie "Invasion of the Saucer Men," and is less an homage as an exact carbon copy, reproducing basically the same characters, scenes and lines, only worse. The one chance that "Eye Creatures" had at improving over the original involves the monsters and the way they are defeated (not to give anything away) but is squandered with the poor production values present. Eye creatures wearing only the mask of their outfit, or running around is comfortable tennis shoes destroy any possibility of respect for this film. Luckily this movie is short enough to be amusing, without stretching on into grating. Best watched on Mystery Science Theater, if possible.

Two teenagers meet up with scary aliens and when they escape, none of the adults in town believe them. So it's up to the teens to get together to save the Earth--just like in other 50s and 60s sci-fi films like THE BLOB and EARTH VS. THE GIANT SPIDER.

In the last week, I've seen five of Larry Buchanan's films and I've seen a few others over the years. Sadly, while this is a terrible film, it's probably among the very best films he made! In the 1960s, he made almost a dozen remakes of older Roger Corman films and this is one of them. Originally INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN, this remake is amazingly bland and tame--mostly because it lacks the charm and great looking aliens from the original. The acting is generally surprisingly good for a Buchanan film--most of the actors seem semi-competent and DON'T read their lines from cue cards in a staccato voice. However, the "comic relief" soldiers are pretty dreadful. Plus, the aliens look cheap, the story too close to the original and too little reason exists not to just watch INVASION and be done with it--especially since INVASION is a real cult classic, whereas THE EYE CREATURES is just boring.

First of all,this is a remake of Invasion of the Saucer Men,but this movie isn't near as good as that one.Why? Lousy script.Bad "special" effects and last,you can SEE that some of the Eye Creatures only have the headpiece on and that's it! Some are wearing black shirt and pants and tennis shoes.Plus,it goes from day to night and back again in one shot! The so-called "night" shots look as though they were filmed in the afternoon.And let's not forget the title either.The original title was The Eye Creatures,but I think when it was re-released,some idiot decided to add "Attack of the" on the front to make it "Attack of the the Eye Creatures"..I've seen this by way of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and believe me,that's the only way to view this.Not unless you like movies that move slowly..Bad? Yes.Fun to watch on a rainy night? Maybe.As bad as "Plan 9"??? You be the judge..Have fun!!

A truly wonderfully bad film. A perfect blend of inane story line, paper thin characters, awful comic relief, and, most important of all, absolutely atrocious production values. Watch closely to see the "creatures" wearing tennis shoes, dressed in black tights from the waist down, flaunting exposed zippers down their backs, and more! A rollicking good time for fans of really bad sci-fi flicks. Keep the remote in hand and your fingers close to the rewind and slo-mo buttons!