Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

JLRVancouver "Invisible invaders" is a late-50's cheapie staring the B-ubiquitous John Agar. The bargain-basement production consists of every cost-saving trick in the book: constant voice-overs, extensive stock footage, recycled material from other movies, reused footage, and of course, the ultimate cheap-out – invisible invaders (allowing the aliens to simply be a movement in the bushes or the sand). The movie is most interesting as an ancestor of modern zombie films (the term "walking dead" is used) and as a contemporary sibling of the infamous "Plan 9 from Outer Space". The production cheapness in the two 1959 movies is interesting to compare: Ed Wood's opus is silly but he made the attempt to show alien spaceships etc. ; whereas, "Invisible Invaders" uses the 'invisible' gimmick to weasel out of showing much of anything. IMO, of the two, P9fOS is much more entertaining and justly, substantially better known. Overall, "Invisible Invaders" is slow-moving and contrived and, as a film, is more interesting than is its content, but only to fans of the various genres to which it belongs.

JohnHowardReid What a bright idea! How to save thousands of dollars on your "B" movie adventure: Make your invaders invisible! As implied, this is an extremely low-budget, sci-fi horror melodrama from the Robert E. Kent—Edward L. Cahn pill-box. The screenplay by Sam Newman (obviously penned in his lunch hour at CBS TV), begins with some ineptly padded introductory scenes before switching to an enormous amount of stock footage which turns out to be considerably more interesting than the movie itself. Indeed, when the movie itself resumes and director Cahn takes the reins, entertainment flies out the window. Mr. Cahn's painfully inept direction gleans only a minimum of atmosphere and tension from some quite promising Newman material. Admittedly, Cahn is not helped by his fourth-rate cast. The stars, John Agar, Jean Byron and Robert Hutton are particularly weak. Available on an excellent Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer DVD.

samuraihannity This movie is about some invisible, foot dragging aliens. Which is odd because once they take over the bodies of the dead, they seem to know how to pick up their feet, at least a little. However, once they are invisible, they drag their feet, in such a heavy way it causes them to have extremely labored breathing. No wonder they prefer fighting humans in the bodies of the dead. They don't breathe heavily in the bodies of the dead. I guess being a zombie is less work intensive than being an invisible alien.The aliens are fighting the whiniest weenies on the face of the planet. Adam Penner seems to be in an obnoxious whine about something throughout the entire film. John turns from true blue friend to a lovely shade of cowardly yellow. The only person in the film that seems to have any ca hones is John Agar. That alone tells you something about the film.There's only one woman in the film. I don't even see any female zombies. (Oops, did I use the forbidden "Z" word, again?) It's no wonder the only woman in the film falls in love with John Agar. He's the only "hero" in the film, deserving to wear pants.It's no surprise, this film is one of my favorite films to put on at bedtime. While I'm awake, I can laugh at this film. If I fall asleep, who cares! If I make it through the entire film, I know I better make an appointment with my doctor for insomnia.This film is a much a labor to watch as the labored breathing of the invisible aliens. I'll never know why MST3K didn't get a hold of this little gem of awfulness. It certainly deserves the MST3K treatment. No foot dragging, whatsoever, in saying that.

dbdumonteil The movie was done on a shoestring budget ,for all that demands a lot of money (the adventures of the aliens on their planet,in Space ,on the Moon) is told by a grating voice over which explains everything to us -and another one for the voice of the invader(s)- and sometimes becomes preachy,urging the countries of the world to get together and to stop building their atomic bombs ,which makes the flick look like a rehashed "the day the Earth stood still" as far as moral is concerned).Besides the main idea of the screenplay was borrowed from the highly superior "invasion of the body snatchers" which I urge sci-fi buffs to see immediately if they think that the genre produced only lousy movies in the fifties.The last scene sells the fin de decade audience universal utopia.