This film is wonderfully cheap, awkward, and earnest. The director has a few successful scenes where a creepy mood is achieved, and there is a kind of plausibility throughout if one is able to accept the concept of an entire universe contained on studio back lots with virtually no money. I don’t know why, but the scifi and horror films of this cheap, primitive, paranoid era were more fun than those made nowadays.<\/p>\n
Besides its innate aesthetic value, this film is notable for an early featured role for the great Peter Graves, who died about a month prior to me writing this review. Mr. Graves’ performance here is certainly not Oscar-worthy, but if one imagines the circumstances under which this film was undoubtedly made, he acquits himself well.<\/p>\n
Another noteworthy thing: this film features a storyline in which alien space travelers abduct a USAF pilot and perform mysterious and creepy surgery on him, leaving him with a strange scar and the gap in his memory that ufologists call ‘missing time.’ Missing time and secret alien medical procedures have become a clich\u00e9 of modern UFO mythology, but this is the earliest film I have seen to feature these concepts.<\/p>\n
The aliens are bug-eyed creatures who dress in outfits of uncanny similarity to the costume worn by 1930’s newspaper comic strip hero ‘The Phantom.’ Their base of operations is a typical low-budget movie cave of the type favored by the villains in Republic chapter-plays, and their equipment looks mostly like various disemboweled floor-model radios and old DuMont TV sets. Despite the limitations, the scenes containing these elements are the most effective in the film.<\/p>\n
Lovers of old-school, low-budget scifi and horror will likely enjoy this film, although perhaps not to the degree I did. Nonetheless, it is certainly worth a look if are the right type of aficionado.<\/p>\n
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