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Invisible Invaders

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When Dr. Karol Noymann (John Carradine) is killed in an explosion, aliens inhabit his corpse and use it to communicate with his former colleague, Dr. Adam Penner (Philip Tonge), revealing to him that invisible aliens live on the moon. After this revelation, the aliens set out to wipe out humanity by making zombies from their corpses. To survive, Dr. Penner, his daughter (Jean Byron), Dr. John Lamont (Robert Hutton) and Maj. Bruce Jay (John Agar) all hide in a bunker.

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Mel Valentin eFilmCritic.com Rated: 3/5 Jan 20, 2007 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Aug 30, 2005 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews This is a classic in bad sci-fi B-movies. Rated: C Sep 25, 2002 Full Review Read all reviews

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mark s This movie has earned a spot in the pantheon of movies that are so bad that they're good, and in the same company with 'Troll 2', 'Glen or Glenda', 'Santa Claus and the ice cream bunny', and 'Manos: hands of fate'. It's dreadfully hysterical and worth every second I spent watching it! Why no 'Invisible Invaders 2'? Rated 1 out of 5 stars 12/31/23 Full Review Steve Before Night of the Living Dead or Plan 9 from Outer Mongolia, there was Invisible Invaders! Cheesy voice over narration, and seems the producers ran out of money or time or both before being able to film a satisfying ending, but it provides chills and thrills until then. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/28/23 Full Review Audience Member Apocalyptic, post WWII sci-fi always good for a laugh. Why would such intelligent beings just be walking around like zombies in the dead bodies of earthlings? Who comes up with this stuff? And you're telling me that beings who designed intergalactic space flight and are able to take over a planet in a few days would fall for the old hole filled with water trick? Only in a 50s sci-fi thriller. The day the earth was conquired! Scary stuff. 🤣😁😉 Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member We're all just 24-hours away from destruction. Aliens that have resided in the moon for 20,000 years contact a scientist with political and military contacts. They inform the scientist that they plan to infiltrate the dead, bring them back as zombies, and have them devour everyone on Earth. The scientist has 24-hours to convince people with influence that the threat is true and they need to act to stop them. "We have never bothered Earth because of its slow scientific development." Edward Cahn, director of It!, The Terror from beyond Space, Invasion of the Saucer Men, Annie was a Wonder, Gun Fight, and The Music Box Kid, delivers Invisible Invaders. The storyline for this picture was just okay with some cool zombie aspects. The makeup and costumes I felt were pretty well done. The cast delivers cliché performances and include John Carradine, John Agar, Jean Byron, and Paul Langton. "The dead will kill the living and the people of Earth will cease to exist." I randomly DVR'd this picture since it was recommend to me off Fios. I enjoyed this for the most part. I won't say this is special, but I do always enjoy the zombie pictures from this era (the classic slow walking kind). The movie is just okay but a fun viewing if you're a fan of the genre during this era. "My attitude now is more of a hindrance than help." Grade: C Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Pretty silly...actually just pretty bad Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Cheaply made alien invasion film from slock director Edward L. Cahn. Invisible martians from the moon plan invade earth and plan to colonize (because we'll otherwise destroy ourselves with nuclear weapons). The invisible martians possess dead bodies which then attack the living, which has kind of a zombie vibe to it about 10 years before "Night of the Living Dead" came out. The possessed corpse make-up and their stiff movements even look like the zombies in Romero's first film. The zombies are even referred to as "the walking dead" at one point by the film's over dramatic narrator. Still, they don't fed on the flesh of the living and the film lacks any of the "rules" that Romero set up for his zombies (i.e. destroy the brain to kill the zombie, anyone who dies turns into a zombie, etc.) so no one can make the case that Romero stole from this movie. Overall, this film is super low budget, featuring loads of stock footage (including the classic wreck at the end of "Thunder Road"), a rather uncoupling story, and a generally pretty boring alien invasion story. The story might have made a decent 30 minute "Twilight Zone" episode, but not a feature length film. Probably only worth watching for it's contribution to the zombie genre,which was mainly as an influence on George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" where he created the horror sub genre. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis When Dr. Karol Noymann (John Carradine) is killed in an explosion, aliens inhabit his corpse and use it to communicate with his former colleague, Dr. Adam Penner (Philip Tonge), revealing to him that invisible aliens live on the moon. After this revelation, the aliens set out to wipe out humanity by making zombies from their corpses. To survive, Dr. Penner, his daughter (Jean Byron), Dr. John Lamont (Robert Hutton) and Maj. Bruce Jay (John Agar) all hide in a bunker.
Director
Edward L. Cahn
Producer
Robert E. Kent
Production Co
Robert E. Kent Productions
Genre
Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 1, 2016
Runtime
1h 7m
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