1959 B-movieRating: 6/20
Plot: An advanced alien species, one who apparently believe the moon is a planet, decide to finally invade earth after watching Earthlings become advanced enough to make atom bombs and potentially engage in space travel. The alien beings declare war on earth people and use dead bodies to move around in. Really really slowly. War is declared on planet earth a few more times, and a hockey game is disrupted. Egads!
Really too-typical B-movie stuff with terrible acting, plot holes galore, and silly effects. Most oppressive of all is some pointless narration. I think I heard the same narrator on filmstrips in my elementary school classrooms actually. Stock footage is used for some of the more explosive scenes, and it seems like the same exact footage of the zombie aliens tottering down a hill near our heroes is used five or six times. Five or six also happens to be the number of notes used in the little bit of music that is repeated ad nauseum. There are some moments that are in the so-bad-they're-funny category, but there's a lot of this that is just pretty boring, too. There's even more that's incomprehensible. I really never understood why the "invaders" ever needed the dead bodies. Why couldn't they just stay invisible? And why was the avant-garde stylings of Japanese noise artist Merzbow the only thing that could stop them, turning them, I think, into marshmallows which then turned into pillows? This might be worth watching as an influence on both Romero and Wood.
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