ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

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Naturally, everything depicted in the poster above can be seen on the movie screen. It just doesn't happen in this movie . . .

"Invisible Invaders" is more like "Night of the Living Dead", but without the gore. Invisible aliens arrive from the Moon in an invisible spaceship (thereby saving a fortune on makeup and special effects).

The invisible aliens can reanimate the bodies of dead men, which they use to form an army of marching corpses, white-faced zombies with black circles around their eyes, all wearing the stylish business suits in which they were buried -- the best-dressed zombie army in film history!

John Carradine portrays one of the walking dead (but we don't see much of him). John Agar is the tough military man who takes two scientists and a young woman to an underground military base where they'll be safe while trying to find a way to kill an army that's already dead. High-frequency sound is the weapon they eventually come up with.

That makes perfect sense, because everybody knows dead people can't stand high-pitched noises.

This one is neither well done nor fondly remembered; the low budget was so low that the underground base is conspicuously devoid of personnel.

Directed by Edward L. Cahn. The "Chief Technician" listed in the credits is Buzz Gibson -- the assistant animator on "King Kong"! Also starring Jean Byron, Philip Tonge, Hal Torey, and Robert Hutton ("The Colossus of New York"). In 1967 Hutton again battled body-stealing invaders in "They Came from Beyond Space".
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Krel]

A few years back, I watched this film, and "Angry Red Planet" close together, and I noticed something. The sound gun in "Invisible Invaders" was used as a sound gun in "Angry Red Planet"! Now it is not unusual to see costumes, models, sets and props reused in different movies. But it is unusual to see a custom prop be used as exactly the same thing in two different productions.

David.

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[Bud Brewster]

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Off hand, the only other "sonic weapon" I can think of in sci-fi movies was the weapon the aliens used in Earth vs the Flying Saucers.

Can anybody else think of weapon that used sonic waves in a science fiction movie?
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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Trailers can be fun even for movies which aren't. This one is good example, offering an imaginative trailer with a fine pictures quality and a great narration!
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__________Invisible Invaders Official Trailer #1


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)