I like B-grade sci-fi, but this one is even below my standards. I can't think of anything good to say about it but this - if you can find the MST3K production you'll have a great time. The movie is terrible, but the terribleness can't be fully appreciated until you see Joel and the Robots give their inimitable critique. They nail some rip-snorters out of this one. Sadly, all I have is a VHS version recorded from TV that I ripped onto a DVD (yuck) and I've never found it on any of their compilations. It's disappointing because along with "It Conquered the World" it's my MST3K guilty-pleasure favorite.As far as the stand-alone movie, forget about it - unless you like really bad directing, acting and unlikable characters.

This is a remake of "Invasion Of The Saucer Men" (1957) While the original attempted to be serious, this version goes for a more comical attempt. It fails at this, instead of funny it can get boring at times by actors that over act being stupid and the writing gives them nothing in the way of comical. The special effect are very low budget and it appears to have been just kicked out without getting the "shots" that are done right. I think the director yelled "Print" way to fast on this one.If you choose between the two movies go with the 1957 original, it has all the camp and magic that you get from old 50s Si Fi.This version can be difficult to watch if you have seen the original first. If not, then it can be enjoyable if you don't expect too much.

This is Larry Buchanan's abysmal remake of a not very good film to begin with - Invasion of the Saucer Men by AIP. Pretty much the same story here: a bunch of teens are out at lover's lane on some crusty farmer's property while the military learns of an alien space craft having landed nearby. The military is out to conceal any knowledge of the aliens and their presence whilst a young guy and his doll are arrested and questioned for a hit and run of a dead guy(they thought they had hit an alien). John Ashley stars as Stan Kenyon - the "roughneck" who hit the alien with his car. You know you are in trouble when either John Ashley or Anthony Eisley are the stars in a film. Whatever it spells, it starts with a Z, a grade Z film to be sure. Buchanan takes the basic story from Invasion of the Saucer Men but leaves behind the few good points that film had and trades them in for inferior ideas. In the original film, the aliens looked kind of neat and impressive with their huge heads and needles coming out of their hands. Here the aliens look like mutated baby Michelen men - rubber included! They look just God awful and move so awfully slow. Buchanan defies movie making by NOT using special effects. Here we get flash bulb photography and car headlights as the most advanced special effects used. But put aside that, you have some of the worst acting and dialog to be seen and heard in a movie of this ilk. All of the actors playing the military men are just horrific. They speak with no conviction and look so ridiculous spouting whatever it is they are spouting. I am amazed that much of the basis for the script came from the older film and some of it worked in that film. None of it works here with this crew of non-talents. Aside from the female lead, Cynthia Hull, being attractive, I can say nothing positive about this film except that it is positively boring. All those that agree say "Eye!"

Here's what happens when you've watched enough episodes of MST3K: You see a profoundly unattractive actor in a bit part the opening scene of "Eye Creatures" and you recognize the seeming hatchet wound in his forehead during his 30 seconds on film, and you remember him as the heroic lead in another terrible film by another terrible director called "The Giant Spider Invasion" (also covered by MST). And you begin to suspect the existence of an infinite Quagmire Of Suck which might swallow you whole if you watched too many movies like this and lost your bearings.I've read another IMDb members' comment on "Eye Creatures"; he argues that the film was intended to be funny, and if it had been made as a sit-com for TV, it would have come with a laugh track as the viewer notices all the discrepancies, continuity errors, and glitches. I appreciate the commenter's generosity of spirit and tolerant attitude towards the film makers and toward the whole genre of cheap, 3rd rate horror movies. But I am not buying it.Oh, I agree that the film tries to be light-hearted and amusing (as opposed to dead serious trash like 'Xtro'). A lot of the dialog is obviously meant to be funny, one character (the sap in the sweater-dress) is the broadest kind of comedy relief, and most of the scenes are played for a farcical affect. But the movie is just incompetently made; from the day-for-night lighting, to the badly delivered dialog that is supposed to be funny but ain't, to the incomprehensible plot holes (alien invaders who can be destroyed by headlight beams???) to the non-performances by the actors, to the costumes (which wouldn't be convincing even if they were complete)...you can't point at these things and argue that 'they meant this to be a lampoon of the conventions of the genre' when the movie fails to do a SINGLE THING RIGHT. As Joel and the Robots point out in their final wrap up of the film, "Ladies and Gentlemen, THEY JUST DIDN'T CARE!" You doubt me? The opening title screen reads "Attack Of The The Eye Creatures". (One 'the' in the small print at the top of the screen - "Attack of The" - and a second 'the' embedded in the 'eyeball-shaped' main portion of the title - "The Eye Creatures"). That's not a lampoon, that's just lack of proof reading. It isn't (intentionally) funny and it signals slip-shod hackwork approaching the viewer at the speed of thought. They just didn't care.Worth watching for the sake of its hilarious incompetence, but don't believe anyone who argues that "the filmmakers meant it to be that way". Larry Buchanan and Co. simply sh*t something out and hoped that people would somehow want to watch it.