Interesteg
What makes it different from others?
ChicDragon
It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
Stephanie
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Lee Eisenberg
Yes, it's another incompetently made movie known mainly for its appearance on "Mystery Science Theater 3000". "The Eye Creatures" (aka "Attack of the Eye Creatures") depicts an invasion by aliens that look like bubble wrap covered in rancid cottage cheese. The way that their mouths hang open, they should be called mouth creatures. No surprise then, that Joel and the 'bots have fun with it, mentioning Mariah Carey, Phil Silvers, and others. During one of the interludes, they dress as Rip Taylor and present the eye creatures' sunglasses, sun visors, etc. Finally, they show some goofs that appeared throughout the movie and remind the audience that the people making the movie JUST DIDN'T CARE! Attack of the THE EYE CREATURES. Someone really screwed up on that one, didn't they, Roy Cohn? PS: John Ashley also appeared in "Hud" and associate produced "Apocalypse Now".
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.
