ThiefHott
Too much of everything
Intcatinfo
A Masterpiece!
Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Tayyab Torres
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
Rainey Dawn
This is barely mildly entertaining. We have space aliens - eye creatures - that really are not like the film poster shows. These aliens look more like some weird looking pile of "mess" than eyes floating around as the poster suggests. The story is rather mundane just barely entertaining to me - this one is not my cup of sci-fi B flavored tea.Acting is terrible. I couldn't even get a laugh out of this one to make it worth watching again. Watching once is definitely enough and that is way to much for me.Do yourself a favor, skip this film and watch something at least half way decent instead of this trash of a film. Not worth the gun power to blow away the "eye creatures" on film.2/10
Woodyanders
A bunch of evil and deadly aliens land in the remote woods of a sleepy rural community and terrorize the countryside. It's up to decent, clean-cut youth Stan Kenyon (handsome, smooth-voiced John Ashley) and his sweet girlfriend Susan Rogers (fetching brunette honey Cynthia Hull) to stop them before it's too late. Limply directed in a flat style and with an appalling lack of finesse by notorious Grade Z blunder wonder Larry Buchanan, with static cinematography by Ralph K. Johnson, lousy and unconvincing (markedly less than) special effects, a drawn-out and meandering narrative (the pace plods along at an agonizingly gradual crawl), a numbing excess of dreary dialogue, stiff acting (top thespic dishonors go to Warren Hammack as smug smartaleck Lieutenant Robertson and Tony Huston as the bumbling Corporal Culver), irritating inept comic relief Air Force officers, cardboard characters, an alternately droning or overwrought stock film library score, and no tension or momentum to speak of, this spectacularly shoddy lemon makes for an enjoyably atrocious piece of outright irredeemable schlock. The ugly, lumpy, lumbering titular extraterrestrial monsters are laughably pathetic; they're obviously guys in hokey rubber suits covered with cheesy eyeballs and sporting painfully visible zippers! Buchanan regular Bill Thurman pops up in a small part sans lines as an Air Force sergeant. An absolutely cruddy hoot.
garyb04
I've only seen the MST3K version,but never by itself.This is a remake of INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN,which is a lot better and even stars a young Frank Gorshin.If you notice that towards the end that some of the eye creatures don't have all of their costume on.Just the headpiece and that's it.Guess they didn't have the budget to make more,but for goodness sake,you can see it plain as day or night,if you're referring to this movie.I don't think the director has ever made a good movie and I've seen a couple more he did,but that's it.John Ashley looks embarrassed being in this movie and I don't blame him.He probably did it for the money,if it was that much anyway.See it for the mistakes or just watch the MST3K version instead.Either way,you're in for a treat! Bad movie? You bet!
cheapthrills
Unlike what a previous reviewer said about this film being a ripoff of Roger Corman's films, it is not. AIP, who owned all the films Corman did during the 50s, decided they were going to remake these films as cheaply as possible ($30,000) and sell the to television. So, AIP hired Texas filmmaker Larry Buchanan and had him film Zontar the Thing from Venus,Curse of the Swamp Creature, In the Year 2889 ,Creature of Destruction ,and The Eye Creatures. These were all remakes of 50's AIP films. Yes, these films are all hastily made messes, and yes they are bad, but in an entertaining way. I for one miss by-the-seat-of-your-pants film-making, as well as miss the master, Larry Buchanan.
