February 14, 2011

Killers from Space (1954) REVIEW

The film involves aliens from Outer Space planing to invade the Earth while hypnotizing a scientist to obtain data in order to breed an army of giant insects and lizards. Supposedly, the aliens, that come from Astron Delta, have secret lair near Earth's crust, that isn't anything else than Bronson Cave, (a place that had been filmed so many times in the 50's that it became a cliché amongst B-movies). This movie has a really bad reputation, it was directed by W. Lee Wilder (the unsuccessful brother of director Billy Wilder), it even stands as the 16th Worst Movie Ever Made! Actually, this film was made in one of the lower budgets in the history of cinema, which explain the aliens' ping-pong eyeballs and the cardboard alien city. Speaking frankly, this is a really bad movie.... but I just seem to love it! As I explained earlier on my reviews, I love 50's B-movies, and this is the perfect example of B-movie, from the aliens' costumes to the giant insects to the bad acting, it's just cheesy and entertaining stuff, in a B-movie kind of way. This film is really entertaining and I first discovered it from a 50 movie pack from "Mill Creek Entertainment". This film is public domain and you can legally download it anywhere or watch online for free. 

This film is very entertaining, but remember that it's an awful movie so:

4/10

P.S. Here is the Youtube link for this film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u8apuDgYO0