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23 January 1954 (USA)
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Earth attacked! more
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A scientist monitoring atomic tests, killed in a plane crash, is revived by aliens so he can spy on the tests and help them conquer the world. full summary | add synopsis
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Poorly made, yet a little entertaining in purely bad way.
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Peter Graves | ... | Doug Martin |
| James Seay | ... | Colonel Banks |
| Steve Pendleton | ... | Briggs |
| Frank Gerstle | ... | Dr. Kruger (as Frank Gerstel) |
| John Frederick | ... | Deneb / Tala (as John Merrick) |
| Barbara Bestar | ... | Ellen Martin |
| Shepard Menken | ... | Major Clift (as Shep Menken) |
| Jack Daly | ... | Power House Guard |
| Ron Kennedy | ... | Sentry |
| Ben Welden | ... | Pilot |
| Burt Wenland | ... | Sergeant |
| Lester Dorr | ... | Station Attendant |
| Robert Roark | ... | Guard |
| Ruth Bennett | ... | Secretary |
| Mark Scott | ... | Narrator (voice) |
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71 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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UK:U |
USA:G (2005 DVD release) |
Australia:PG |
USA:Approved (PCA #16683) |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review)
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Contrary to the usual practice in the 1950s, the credits for "Killers from Space" appear at the end rather than at the beginning of the movie.
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Continuity: During the chase through the powerhouse, Dr. Martin passes a wall of instruments where he pauses briefly in front of a clock reading 10:43. A few moments after, the group chasing him also stops briefly before that very same clock, showing the same time. But less than a minute later, in the control room, the clock on the wall there reads exactly 10:00.
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Briggs, FBI:
Did you ever stop to think that perhaps this Dr. Martin isn't really THE Dr. Martin?
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Featured in Monsterama Sci-Fi Late Night Creature Feature Show Vol. 1 (1996) (V)
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Wow... This is a bad movie. I mean literally there's nothing extremely good about it. Even the length of the film, the whole 70 minutes, feels too long to watch, when no-one actually can act, the plot is terrible and the special effects are bad, even for the 50's standards.
Now, there are some elements in the film, that caused me to laugh, but that was just because of the lack of quality, or just the sheer stupidity of things coming out from the mouths of the actors.
Let's tackle the plot: A-bomb, the great and glorious days of the atom. The military is doing some experiments with THE bomb, when something goes wrong and a survey plane explodes. Everyone thinks, that Dr. Douglas Martin (Peter Graves) is dead, but then he suddenly appears. But he's acting somewhat strangely and there is a huge scar on his chest.
Soon it's discovered that he was hypnotized and open heart operated by the aliens with huge, bulging and quite motionless, yet sometimes in different way looking eyes. Oh and did I mention they are about to conquer Earth by the help of mutated insects and lizards and stuff.
This movie could be a true camp classic, but it's just far too boring for that. Static camera mostly just shoots people talking nonsense about everything possible and the action is very badly portrayed. Direction and the script are non-existing.
"Killers from Space" has small amount of value as a purely bad movie level, but it's not a classic such as the legendary movies of Ed Wood just because the film just is bad bad. Most of the time. But you could watch it for the aliens. They're just so funny looking with their huge eyes and the Phantom rip off suits.
Rating as a movie: 2 out of 10, Campy movie rating: 3 out of 10