ALPHA DVD VERSION
ONE OF THE ALL TIME CHEEZIE 1950'S SCI-FI CLASSICS...RIGHT ALONGSIDE "THE GIANT GILA MONSTER", "KILLER SHREWS", "ATTACK OF THE 50FT. WOMAN", "TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE" AND "THE GIANT CLAW"...DID I LEAVE OUT "THE MOLE PEOPLE" & "HORROR AT PARTY BEACH"?...LET'S NOT FORGET "PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE", "ROBOT MONSTER" & "BEGINNING OF THE END"!!!!
DIRECTED BY BILLY WILDER'S LESS FAMOUS BROTHER W. LEE WILDER (PHANTOM FROM SPACE), THIS IS THE MOVIE WITH THE ALIENS WITH THE PING PONG BALL EYES!!! THEY WEAR HAND-ME-DOWNS FROM OLD REPUBLIC SERIALS, & THREATEN TO TAKE OVER THE EARTH WITH GIANT REAR-SCREEN PROJECTED INSECTS & SUCH. STAR PETER GRAVES STUMBLES ABOUT AIMLESSLY IN THE BRONSON CANYON CAVES.
CAN YOU IMAGINE THE CONVERSATION AT A WILDER FAMILY GET-TOGETHER?
BILLY: WHAT YOU BEEN UP TO LATELY W. LEE?
W. LEE: GOT A PRETTY GOOD PROJECT GOING. YOU?
BILLY: I'M DIRECTING JACK LEMON, TONY CURTIS & MARILYN MONROE IN "SOME LIKE IT HOT".
W. LEE: OH YEAH!...I'M DIRECTING PETER GRAVES IN "KILLERS FROM SPACE"!!!
BILLY: GEE...I HOPE IT'S BETTER THAN "PHANTOM FROM SPACE".......
........BUT, YOU KNOW, OVER THE YEARS, I'VE SEEN "SOME LIKE IT HOT" MAYBE TWICE...BUT "KILLERS FROM SPACE" I'VE SEEN AT LEAST A DOZEN OR SO TIMES & HAVE IT ON BOTH VHS & DVD!!!
I WAIT FOR "SOME LIKE IT HOT" TO SHOW UP ON TV ON TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES...
THE ALPHA DVD IS VERY GOOD, AN IMPROVEMENT ON MY VHS TAPE...& THE COVER IS GREAT TOO!!!
1950'S SCI-FI FUN. ONE OF THE BEST OF IT'S KIND. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

endearing minor s sci-fi B movie
Peter Graves plays Dr Doug Martin ,whose plane goes missing during a nuclear test in the Nevada desert .He is at first presumed dead but eventually turns up with no memory of anything and with his chest covered in what appear to be surgical scars.
Under hypnosis it emerges that he has been kidnapped by aliens from Astro Delta who are intent upon using him as an unwitting ally in their plans to take over the world ,a scheme which also involves giant reptiles and insects .
The special effects are what mainly lets this movie down -they are truly lamentable even by the standards of low budget mid 50, science fiction ,and the bug eyed aliens are especially silly with their black costumes and patently false bug-eyes .

The idea is quite imaginative and the pace is brisk with a nice line in Cold War paranoia both with the alien invasion plot and the approval given to the role of the FBI snoopers .Poor acting is no help either .

It is watchable but scuppered by technical inadequacay

classic science fiction
I like the old science fiction movies,they are more realistic than some alien melting from a bad acid trip in the latest sci-fi movies they have now,maybe the producers of the sci-fi movies of now were acid heads!how ever they show a great lack of imagination and fill in their movies with special effects when there isn't any acting talent in the actors ,to dazzel the uneducated audience with this garbage,is to call them stupid, and the stupid audience will eat this garbage up!eat up!stupid!

Stupid enough to be fun
This has got to be one of the first "alien abduction" pictures. Peter Graves stars as a nuclear scientist kidnapped and brainwashed by a gang of aliens with great big googly Muppet eyes. When he regains his memory, everyone thinks he's nuts, babbling about flying saucers and giant insects. But is he? Graves and his wife sleep in seperate beds...guess the marraige isn't going so hot, huh? This is another film from the Mills Creek Sci-Fi Classics thingy, and while it isn't quite a schlock classic like Teenagers From Outer Space or Robot Monster, KFS isn't entirely terrible either. Mildly recommended for one of those nights when you have a ton of time to kill.

B-Science Fiction Alien Movie
This movie has all the trappings of classic B-science fiction movies. There are the cheesy aliens, the hokey, out-sized critters, awful space craft special effects, and lots of stock footage of aircraft that do not match the scenes or each other. In other words, this is great stuff. But wait, there is more! Peter Graves is the star!

Dr. Douglas Martin (Peter Graves) is monitoring test explosions of nuclear weapons from a jet. As Dr. Martin and the pilot are flying around, which is shown by an obvious model performing impossible turns, they see something unusual on the ground. Faster than you can say "I was kidnapped by aliens," their jet crashes into the ground, killing both. But wait, here comes Dr. Martin up to the main gate of the military base. We later found out that those evil aliens saved Dr. Martin so that he could help them learn when the next nuclear test is.

Everyone is suspicious of Dr. Martin because he is acting strangely. When he offers to take out the garbage his wife knows he has been brainwashed by aliens (okay, I made that up, but it could have happened!). After acting weird for a while, Dr. Martin returns to the aliens, where we learn that aliens from a planet that is dying want to move to earth, where the property values are higher, there is food for their giant critters collection, and, I almost forgot, our sun still shines.

What the aliens have been doing is stealing the power from our nuclear explosions. They have been saving it up in special nuclear power containers, which they keep powered by energy stolen from our electric grid. The aliens want the nuclear power because it will (as everyone has known forever) help their giant critter population explode, eventually eliminating every human on earth, which will then allow the aliens to move in. Of course, Dr. Martin immediately realizes that the evil aliens can be readily defeated by calmly explaining to the local authorities about the aliens and their giant critters waiting in caves in the ground, stealing the energy from our nuclear explosions, and they will insist the power grid be turned off, which will then unleash the nuclear energy, destroying the aliens. Have you ever wondered why no one listens to the one person who can save mankind in these movies?

I liked this movie. It was fun catching the mistakes in the stock footage (one kind of helicopter takes off, it becomes another kind of helicopter, and then switches back to the original - this is great stuff). It was also fun seeing the blown-up shots of horned lizards, tarantulas, and various insects, even though the gigantic invertebrates could not survive in our gravity. I guess the theory in these movies was that if you were going to stretch science, may as well totally throw science out the window. I also found it interesting that the super-sophisticated aliens needed Dr. Martin to tell them when the next nuclear explosion was going to happen. You would think these people had never heard of a circuit breaker.

Anyway, this was a fun movie with lots of veteran actors, such as Frank Gerstle, who also appeared in "The Wasp Woman," and John Frederick, who appeared in "The Alligator People." You just know that the actors in this movie are all class. If you like 1950s era B-science fiction movies, this one is, while less than great, worth a watch.