*Spoiler/plot- The Eye Creatures, 1965. Several teenagers in cars are out at night for some fun. They come across some strange happenings and find out about an invasion of space aliens. They try but have difficulties to get the word to the police authorities and fight the invaders themselves.*Special Stars- John Ashley, Cynthia Hull, Warren Hammack, Chet Davis.*Theme- Nighttime is the best time for seeing alien creatures.*Trivia/location/goofs- B & W. Day and night scenes change in the middle of dialog. Some eye creatures are only wearing a head mask only with black shirts and pants and sneakers.*Emotion- This film is unfortunately an obvious film plot 'by formula'. It's simplistic, and very boring to watch. 'The Blob' was a huge movie hit years before and this film copied almost every plot scene by scene from 'The Blob' only changing the incidental monster and very few trivial movie elements. So this 50's B-movie spin-off is not worth your viewing time or energies. See 'The Blob' original instead with Steven McQueen(And yes, that McQueen).

There's a part of me that wants to rate The Eye Creatures a 1 or a 2 out of 10, the rational part of me I guess. And yet, I just can't do it, for all its daft plotting, ill conceived humour and crackpot performances there's a guileless charm to the whole affair that I can't help but love. Sold straight to television by American International Pictures along with various other Larry Buchanan pictures during the 60's, The Eye Creatures deals with a minor alien invasion and the intrepid teens who deal with it, whilst forces of authority either attempt to cover things up, watch people making out or simply get the wrong end of the stick and confuse matters. The film is thoroughly imbued with late 50's nascent teen rebellion themes, dusted with a silliness more of its time and all decked out in colourful fashions and cosy sets, it makes for an exceedingly dated yet oddly comforting experience, jokes constantly fall flat and the acting falls flatter but there's a simmering pleasantry underlying the whole experience that is hard to dismiss. Regrettably things are pretty slow and the silliness begins to grate, more regrettable is the underuse of the titular creatures. A sweet design, hulking off white humanoid horror beasts, decked out in obscene bulges, they have the right sort of goofy yet imposing presence and it's a real pity that they don't appear more and are so easily dispatched. Things are far too tame as well; with a bit of a darker edge the film would have gained a significant boost. Acting predictably is pretty dire, though John Ashley is relatively sound as the hero and Buchanan regular Tony Huston makes a welcome appearance. As the hero's girlfriend with whom he plans to elope, Cynthia Hull is pretty pleasant I guess, I nice looking gal with the right sort of demeanour. Little more to add really, OK Les Baxter (uncredited) score and editing was handled by SF Brownrigg, later to become a 70's horror notable with the likes of Don't Look In the Basement and Keep My Grave Open. The editing is nothing to write home about though…Basically nobody outside of thoroughgoing trash addicts will get anything out of this one, but since I fall under that category I liked it well enough. Buchanan has done better, but this could have been a whole lot worse, I give it a 5/10.

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!

This is Larry Buchanan's abysmal remake of a not very good film to begin with - Invasion of the Saucer Men by AIP. Pretty much the same story here: a bunch of teens are out at lover's lane on some crusty farmer's property while the military learns of an alien space craft having landed nearby. The military is out to conceal any knowledge of the aliens and their presence whilst a young guy and his doll are arrested and questioned for a hit and run of a dead guy(they thought they had hit an alien). John Ashley stars as Stan Kenyon - the "roughneck" who hit the alien with his car. You know you are in trouble when either John Ashley or Anthony Eisley are the stars in a film. Whatever it spells, it starts with a Z, a grade Z film to be sure. Buchanan takes the basic story from Invasion of the Saucer Men but leaves behind the few good points that film had and trades them in for inferior ideas. In the original film, the aliens looked kind of neat and impressive with their huge heads and needles coming out of their hands. Here the aliens look like mutated baby Michelen men - rubber included! They look just God awful and move so awfully slow. Buchanan defies movie making by NOT using special effects. Here we get flash bulb photography and car headlights as the most advanced special effects used. But put aside that, you have some of the worst acting and dialog to be seen and heard in a movie of this ilk. All of the actors playing the military men are just horrific. They speak with no conviction and look so ridiculous spouting whatever it is they are spouting. I am amazed that much of the basis for the script came from the older film and some of it worked in that film. None of it works here with this crew of non-talents. Aside from the female lead, Cynthia Hull, being attractive, I can say nothing positive about this film except that it is positively boring. All those that agree say "Eye!"