vortifax.blogg.se

The fun of the film is the corny lines here and there and, of course, the horrible special-effects, some of which will make you laugh out loud. There is no need to go into story details. This was made in the era, unlike the last few decades, in which Hollywood portrayed the U.S. He got a good ally soon and it wasn't too long where people woke up to what was happening. I presumed they were going to go on and on about that, but they didn't. I appreciated the fact the film didn't overdo the "we-don't-believe-the-dumb kid-angle.

I thought the best part of this 1953 sci-fi classic was the beginning where Hunt really took center stage as the kid who saw a Martian UFO crash-land in a nearby area and then saw what the aliens did to his parents and others.

He did come back to be part of the remake in 1986, playing the police chief and uttering one ironic and inside-joke line. He was a decent child actor, as he shows here. Jimmy Hunt is his name, and he didn't have a big career acting, "retiring" at the end of the following year (1954). A curiously compelling movie.Ī little boy is the star of this film, and he does a fine job acting. It very much shows its age (and they could have shortened the stock army footage of tanks rolling) but has much that gives it a weird sort of drawing power even today. The almost abstract quality of the set in the police station scene lends it a foreboding quality. The music and sound effects, too, are particularly eerie. The concept, especially, of one's parents being taken under the control of evil forces is particularly disturbing to a young child. I saw it again recently on AMC and can see many of the things that are dated, but can also understand why the movie made such an impact at the time. Blake, the little silver octopus-like guy in the fishbowl - all replayed themselves in my mind over many nights. The images in the movie - the big green guys, the melting rock that looked like an explosion in a bubble gum factory, the people falling into the sand pit, the dreaded implant approaching the pretty neck of Dr. I was seven years old when I was taken to see this movie by my sixty-year old Lithuanian grandmother (to whom it must have made no sense at all). It's easy to forgive the problems in a film like INVADERS FROM MARS when it contains such classic, timeless material and I do think this is one of those '50s-era B-movie alien invasion classics. That alien leader, little more than a head in a goldfish bowl, is oddly disturbing and an image that's stayed with me for my whole life. The more overt aspects of the story, which take place towards the climax, are also profound, and in this case the imaginative nature of the production outweighs the budgetary constraints. The paranoia is cloying and really raises the hackles, even as an adult, and even allowing for the cheesy over-acting of the child star. Interestingly, this is the earliest version I've seen on that theme, predating INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS by a couple of years. It's partly the Cold War paranoia-inspired plot about nice, ordinary people being taken over by a sinister foreign menace. And yet.there's something oddly menacing about this film. Scenes are repeated, special effects are wobbly to say the least, the aliens are silly rather than menacing, and the paucity of the production is apparent in every respect. Watching it now, as an adult, it's easy to laugh at what is a shoddy, low budget production. Looks like a lot of other reviewers were similarly traumatised.

This one scared the hell out of me when I first saw it as a kid I remember them showing it in the evening on BBC2 back in the 1980s.