Invaders from Mars
1953  NR  SCIENCE FICTION  1h 17min
CAST— Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke, Bert Freed
MUSIC— Raoul Kraushaar  DIRECTOR— William Cameron Menzies

     Entertaining sci-fi camp, as only the ‘50s could produce. Late at night the son of a military scientist sees a strange glowing object descend from the skies. After his father goes to check it out he returns a bit different. Soon what turns out to be a spacecraft starts to claim victims left and right, altering them before returning them to their loved ones. The young boy slowly begins to gather allies who believe his story and who are willing to take action against both the spacecraft and the altered humans (including the boy’s parents, both of whom now do the aliens’ bidding). Hokey effects and lame dialogue combine to form a fun film that’s worth a few giggles. Beware the muTANTS!
OUR RATING— ** ½
REMADE AS— Invaders from Mars (1986)