The Invisible Invaders (1959)

[Gluttony]

This is one of the last science fiction movies Edward Cahn worked on and probably is his least known (even less than She Creature). The film itself is about a highly advanced race of aliens that come to Earth and start controlling the bodies of our dead and turning invisible!

The movie is cheap, it runs only sixty minutes long, uses more than it's fair share of stock footage for the destruction scenes, and confines most of the movie to a few paltry sets. However, the movie is in the glorious attitude of 50s cheese; the science is bamboozling, the characters are wooden and one dimensional, and it gives a basic outline for Day of the Dead. The movie is imaginative and has some practical but very effective camera tricks to give it the visual appeal. This is unmistakable Cahn claptrap, but fans of the 50s will find this a desireable hunk of cheese perfect for a late night viewing.

Also, if you look closely in some scenes, you can see that the aliens' true forms are brought to life using the monster suit from Cahn's previous project, and most well known, It! The Terror From Beyond Space. Cheap, harmless fun.

7 out of 10

[the dead one]

Gluttony, It's nice to know that there are others who take interest in forgotten horror films of old. The one thing that drew me to Invisible Invaders, was the creepiness of it all. The people who were taken over looked like the living dead. I think that this is one of those films that more or less, influenced Romero's NOTLD! This film would get alot of air play on late night T.V. mostly in the am hours. I recently picked up the DVD, it is part of MGM's Midnite Movies double features series. Playing oposite "Journey to the 7th planet" one cant but help notice the similarities of Invaders plot to Ed Woods "Plan 9 from outer space". Which was titled Grave robbers from space, of all things! Still I enjoy this gem from 1959 and hope that others out there will give it a whirl to see how influencial Invaders is to films that followed down the road! 9 out of 10 for me :D

[Gluttony]

The similarities to the Dead films are quite staggering, especially Day of the Dead, but this is superior to that film. It's true that I love fifties movies more than others, I just love the innocent cheese that comes from that time and that goes double for anything directed by Cahn who seems to have made some of the better schlock fests around.

This one is also noteworthy for John Carradine, who starred, and the plot similarities to Plan 9 From Outerspace. I, of course, enjoy this one slightly more now than Ed Wood's classic.