History Film / InvasionOfTheSaucerMen

* AliensStealCattle: Averted brutally when one of the aliens attacks the farmer's prize bull and gets an eye gouged out. Toward the end we see that [[spoiler: [[ImprobableAnimalSurvival the bull, though wounded by the alien's claws, has survived.]]]]

* ComedyHorror: While a few scenes are clearly intended to be genuinely shocking, the movie is full of comic relief moments and mostly has a fairly light tone. The remake, ''The Eye Creatures'', is even DenserAndWackier.

* MakeoutPoint: Ends up saving the day. When Johnny and Joan realize the aliens' WeaksauceWeakness, they enlist all the other couples at the point to [[spoiler: kill the remaining aliens with their cars' headlights, on the logic that their fellow teens will believe them where the [[AdultsAreUseless adults wouldn't]].]]
** TerrorAtMakeoutPoint: It's when driving away from the lover's lane that our central couple first encounter an alien.

* WeakenedByTheLight: [[spoiler:The aliens]]

Was [[MadeForTVMovie remade for TV]] in 1965 as ''Film/AttackOfTheEyeCreatures'', which is a much worse movie.

* DittoAliens: Low budgets will do that to you, but it could be [[Film/AttackOfTheTheEyeCreatures so much worse]]

* MakeoutPoint: Ends up saving the say. When Johnny and Joan realize the aliens' WeaksauceWeakness, they enlist all the other couples at the point to [[spoiler: kill the remaining aliens with their cars' headlights, on the logic that their fellow teens will believe them where the [[AdultsAreUseless adults wouldn't]].]]

''Invasion of the Saucer Men'' is a 1957 science fiction horror BMovie. Yes, there really is a 1950s science-fiction B-movie titled ''Invasion of the Saucer Men''. It was adapted from "The Cosmic Frame", a short story by Paul Fairman that ran in ''Magazine/AmazingStories'' (May of 1955).

* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: The narrator assures us that yes, Hicksburg really was the name of the town.

** DecompositeCharacter: Farmer Larkin and Joe Gruen are both split off from Frank Williams, a character [[TheGhost we hear about but never meet]] in the short story.

* ExposedExtraterrestrials: The aliens strut around nude all the time.

* AliensStealCattle: Averted brutally when one of the aliens attacks the farmer's prize bull and gets an eye gouged out. Toward the end we see that [[spoiler: [[ImprobablyAnimalSurvival the bull, though wounded by the alien's claws, has survived.]]]]
* BenevolentConspiracy: The military men who destroy the alien spaceship are sworn to secrecy about the entire encounter, in order to keep the world safe.

* AdaptationExpansion: It's a very short movie but they still needed to expand on the short story to get it to be as long as it is.

''Invasion of the Saucer Men'' is a 1957 science fiction horror BMovie. Yes, there really is a 1950s science-fiction B-movie titled ''Invasion of the Saucer Men''.

The movie concerns a town named Hicksburg, wherein a spaceship lands in the nearby woods. Drunk opportunist Joe Gruen (Creator/FrankGorshin) ventures out to find it. Meanwhile a teenage couple - Johnny (Steve Terrell) who works in a garage, and Joan (Gloria Castillo) who is the daughter of the city attorney - are driving down lovers lane when they run over one of the epononymous [[MyBrainIsBig bulbous-headed]] aliens from the spaceship. The two go off to tell of their encounter to the police, and while they're gone, Joe comes across the alien corpse. The aliens kill via injecting people with alcohol with their retractable fingernails, and do so to Joe. They substitute his corpse for the run-down alien's. The police come with Johnny and Joan back to the site and find Joe, thereby assuming that the two were drunk and ran him over, hallucinating that he was an alien. Without the police's help, the town's teens are forced to take on the aliens themselves...

Was [[MadeForTVMovie remade for TV]] in 1965 as ''Film/AttackOfTheEyeCreatures''.

* AliensStealCattle: Averted brutally.

* {{Gorn}}: There is a shockingly gory scene for the time this was made at one point when one of the Saucer Men has their eye gouged out by an enraged bull.

* MyBrainIsBig: The big, veiny varity.
* PoliceAreUseless:

* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler:The aliens die in bright light.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithCows: A drunk bull kills one of the aliens.

The movie concerns a town named Hicksburg, wherein a spaceship lands in the nearby woods. Drunk opportunist Joe Gruen (Frank Gorshin) ventures out to find it. Meanwhile a teenage couple - Johnny (Steve Terrell) who works in a garage, and Joan (Gloria Castillo) who is the daughter of the city attorney - are driving down lovers lane when they run over one of the epononymous [[MyBrainIsBig bulbous-headed]] aliens from the spaceship. The two go off to tell of their encounter to the police, and while they're gone, Joe comes across the alien corpse. The aliens kill via injecting people with alcohol with their retractable fingernails, and do so to Joe. They substitute his corpse for the run-down alien's. The police come with Johnny and Joan back to the site and find Joe, thereby assuming that the two were drunk and ran him over, hallucinating that he was an alien. Without the police's help, the town's teens are forced to take on the aliens themselves...

* BizarreAlienBiology: Retractable finger-needles that inject some sort of alcohol as a weapon.

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: The term "Alcohol" actually encompasses a wide assortment of different chemicals, with the one found in fermented Earth beverages being called Ethyl Alcohol, or Ethanol for short. Many of them would indeed be quite lethal if injected into a human body, and the prospect of having a naturally-evolved means of injecting such substances wouldn't be that different in concept from having a venomous sting or bite. But considering the nature of them ovie it's not likely that the writers were aware of any of this.

* ClicheStorm: ''Just look at the poster.''

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/Batman1966 Riddle me this]], Joe!

* BizarreAlienBiology: Retractable, alcohol-injecting finger needles.

* BizarreAlienBiology: Retractable, alcohol-injecting finger needles?!

* BizzareAlienBiology: Retractable, alcohol-injecting finger needles?!

* AdultsAreUseless: None of the adults believe the teenaged main characteres except for Artie.
* AlienInvasion

* DittoAliens
* DrunkDriver: Johnny does this, which leads to him getting arrested for running over a guy.

* MyBrainIsBig
* PoliceAreUseless

''Invasion of the Saucer Men'' is a 1957 science fiction horror BMovie.

''Invasion of the Saucer Men'' is a 1957 comic science fiction horror BMovie.

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Yes, there really is a 1950s [[BMovie B]] science-fiction movie titled '''''Invasion of the Saucer Men'''''. That said, it's not quite the [[ClicheStorm cliche-ridden]], [[{{Narm}} narm-tacular]], [[SoBadItsGood so bad it's good]] hoot you'd both hope it was and which its poster on the right would suggest. Whatsmore, with Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} and Website/{{IMDB}} listing it as a comedy, it doesn't quite seem to play itself for genuine seriousness either, when we all know that's what makes these sorts of movies good.

Anyways... the movie concerns a town named Hicksburg, wherein a spaceship lands in the nearby woods. Drunk opportunist Joe Gruen (Frank Gorshin) ventures out to find it. Meanwhile a teenage couple - Johnny (Steve Terrell) who works in a garage, and Joan (Gloria Castillo) who is the daughter of the city attorney - are driving down lovers lane when they run over one of the epononymous [[MyBrainIsBig bulbous-headed]] aliens from the spaceship. The two go off to tell of their encounter to the police, and while they're gone, Joe comes across the alien corpse. The aliens kill via injecting people with alcohol with their retractable fingernails, and do so to Joe. They substitute his corpse for the run-down alien's. The police come with Johnny and Joan back to the site and find Joe, thereby assuming that the two were drunk and ran him over, hallucinating that he was an alien. Without the police's help, the town's teens are forced to take on the aliens themselves...

Was remade [[MadeForTVMovie for TV]] in 1965 as ''Film/AttackOfTheEyeCreatures''.

The design of the character of Morbo from ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' is based on that of the aliens from this film.

* AliensStealCattle: Averted brutally

* [[spoiler:EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: Courtesy of the alien's WeaksauceWeakness]]

* [[spoiler:WeakenedByTheLight: The aliens]]

Was remade [[MadeForTVMovie for TV]] in 1965 as ''[[AttackOfTheEyeCreatures Attack of the Eye Creatures]]''.

The design of the character of Morbo from ''{{Futurama}}'' is based on that of the aliens from this film.

Yes, there really is a 1950s [[BMovie B]] science-fiction movie titled '''''Invasion of the Saucer Men'''''. That said, it's not quite the [[ClicheStorm cliche-ridden]], [[{{Narm}} narm-tacular]], [[SoBadItsGood so bad it's good]] hoot you'd both hope it was and which its poster on the right would suggest. Whatsmore, with [[TheOtherWiki Wikipedia]] and [[{{IMDB}} IMDB]] listing it as a comedy, it doesn't quite seem to play itself for genuine seriousness either, when we all know that's what makes these sorts of movies good.

Yes, there really is a 1950s [[BMovie B]] science-fiction movie titled '''''Invasion of the Saucer Men'''''. That said, it's not quite the [[ClicheStorm cliche-ridden]], [[{{Narm}} narm-tacular]], [[SoBadItsGood so bad it's good]] hoot you'd both hope it was and which its poster on the left would suggest. Whatsmore, with [[TheOtherWiki Wikipedia]] and [[{{IMDB}} IMDB]] listing it as a comedy, it doesn't quite seem to play itself for genuine seriousness either, when we all know that's what makes these sorts of movies good.