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* 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.]]]]
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* 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 [[spoiler:[[ImprobableAnimalSurvival the bull, though wounded by the alien's claws, has survived.]]]]survived]]]].
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* 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.
* HorrorComedy: 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, ''Film/TheEyeCreatures'', is even DenserAndWackier.
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* 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.
** TerrorAtMakeoutPoint: It's when driving away from the lover's lane that our central couple first encounter an alien.
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* MakeoutPoint: 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 [[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]].]]
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** TerrorAtMakeoutPoint: It's when driving away from the lover's lane that our central couple first encounter an alien.
* TerrorAtMakeOutPoint: It's when driving away from the lover's lane that our central couple first encounter an alien.
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Was [[MadeForTVMovie remade for TV]] in 1965 as ''Film/AttackOfTheEyeCreatures'', which is a much worse movie.
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* DittoAliens: Low budgets will do that to you, but it could be [[Film/AttackOfTheTheEyeCreatures [[Film/TheEyeCreatures so much worse]]
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* 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]].]]
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* MakeoutPoint: Ends up saving the say.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]].]]
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''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).
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''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).
1955, available [[https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v29n03_1955-05_cape1736/page/n61/mode/1up here]]).
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* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: The narrator assures us that yes, Hicksburg really was the name of the town. In the original short story, it was called Kensington Corner
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** AdaptationalProtagonist: The main character of "The Cosmic Frame" is actually Johnny's dad, Sam, but the filmmakers, knowing who their audience would be, decided to change the focus to the teen couple themselves. This meant expanding Joan's role [[AscendedExtra in particular]], since she only has a single line of dialogue in the original story, while Sam [[DemotedToExtra barely appears in the film]].
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** 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.
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** 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. Joe also has elements of the short story's version of Lee Hayden (Joan's dad), inheriting his desire to financially capitalize off the dead alien; in the movie, Lee never even sees one of the aliens or believes in their existence.
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* ExposedExtraterrestrials: The aliens strut seem perfectly comfortable strutting around nude all the time.nude.
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** 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.
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* 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.
* BenevolentConspiracy: The military men who destroy the alien spaceship are sworn to secrecy about the entire encounter, in order to keep the world safe.
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* 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 [[ImprobableAnimalSurvival 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. One soldier ponders how many other units have encountered similar phenomena and likewise had to stay quiet about it.
* BenevolentConspiracy: The military men who destroy the alien spaceship are sworn to secrecy about the entire encounter, in order to keep the world safe. One soldier ponders how many other units have encountered similar phenomena and likewise had to stay quiet about it.
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* 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.
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* 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. "The Cosmic Frame" ends with Johnny being wrongfully arrested for running a man over (after being framed by the aliens - hence the title). The film carries the story on a ways past that, with Johnny eventually successfully clearing his name and getting a HappyEnding.
** AdaptationalVillainy: The aliens are clear-cut villains in the movie, while in the short story, they're more AmbiguouslyEvil. They frame Johnny for the death of Frank (the equivalent character to Joe from the movie) as an act of revenge; admittedly, he ''did'' run over one of them. However, it's still unclear what happened to Frank, and whether the aliens may have killed him for a less justifiable reason.
** AdaptationalWimp: The aliens have no particular WeaksauceWeakness in the original story, and by the end of it seem to have more or less [[TheBadGuyWins won.]]
** AdaptationalVillainy: The aliens are clear-cut villains in the movie, while in the short story, they're more AmbiguouslyEvil. They frame Johnny for the death of Frank (the equivalent character to Joe from the movie) as an act of revenge; admittedly, he ''did'' run over one of them. However, it's still unclear what happened to Frank, and whether the aliens may have killed him for a less justifiable reason.
** AdaptationalWimp: The aliens have no particular WeaksauceWeakness in the original story, and by the end of it seem to have more or less [[TheBadGuyWins won.]]
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''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''.
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''.
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''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''.
Men''. It was adapted from "The Cosmic Frame", a short story by Paul Fairman that ran in ''Magazine/AmazingStories'' (May of 1955).
The movie concerns a town named Hicksburg, wherein a spaceship lands in the nearby woods. Drunk opportunist Joe Gruen(Creator/FrankGorshin) (a young 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''.
''Film/AttackOfTheEyeCreatures'', which is a much worse movie.
The movie concerns a town named Hicksburg, wherein a spaceship lands in the nearby woods. Drunk opportunist Joe Gruen
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* 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.
* AliensInCardiff: The aliens land in the woods outside a small town.
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* AliensStealCattle: Averted brutally.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.
* BenevolentConspiracy: The military men who destroy the alien spaceship are sworn to secrecy about the entire encounter, in order to keep the world safe.
* ExposedExtraterrestrials: The aliens strut around nude all the time.
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* {{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.
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* {{Gorn}}: There is a shockingly gory scene for (for the time time) this was made at one point when one of the Saucer Men has their eye gouged out by an enraged bull.
* 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]].]]
** TerrorAtMakeoutPoint: It's when driving away from the lover's lane that our central couple first encounter an alien.
** TerrorAtMakeoutPoint: It's when driving away from the lover's lane that our central couple first encounter an alien.
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* MyBrainIsBig: The big, veiny varity.
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*PoliceAreUseless:NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: The narrator assures us that yes, Hicksburg really was the name of the town.
* PoliceAreUseless: The police, naturally, refuse to believe there are aliens, or even investigate the possibility.
* TerriblePickupLines: Joe asks a waitress for directions, specifically asking her to tell him how to get to "first base with you tonight." It doesn't go very well for him.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The police, naturally, refuse to believe there are aliens, or even investigate the possibility.
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* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler:The aliens die in bright light. This raises the question of how they expected to conquer a planet that gets so much sunlight.]]
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* EverythingsBetterWithCows: A drunk bull kills one of the aliens.
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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...
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The movie concerns a town named Hicksburg, wherein a spaceship lands in the nearby woods. Drunk opportunist Joe Gruen (Frank Gorshin) (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...
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* BizarreAlienBiology: Retractable finger-needles that inject some sort of alcohol as a weapon.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: Retractable finger-needles that inject some sort of alcohol as a weapon. They can also detach themselves and run amok on their own if the aliens are killed.
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* 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.
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* ClicheStorm: ''Just look at the poster.''
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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Series/Batman1966 Riddle me this]], Joe!
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* 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.
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Assuming that the writers had a decent understanding of chemistry (as far fetched as that would be for a movie like this), it's probably not the kind of alcohol found in Earthly age-restricted drinks, which is called ethyl alcohol or ethanol for short. Many types of alcohol would work fine for this purpose, and at the end of the day it's not that different from a snake or arthropod injecting its prey with venom.
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*AlienInvasionAlienInvasion: Please refer to the title.
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DittoAliens: Low budgets will do that to you, but it could be [[Film/AttackOfTheTheEyeCreatures so much worse]]
* DrunkDriver: Johnnydoes is accused of being this, which leads to him getting arrested for running over a guy.
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''Invasion of the Saucer Men'' is a 1957 science fiction horror BMovie.
BMovie. Yes, there really is a 1950s science-fiction B-movie titled ''Invasion of the Saucer Men''.
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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.
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.
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Yes, there really is a 1950s [[BMovie B]] science-fiction movie titled '''''Invasion
->''"Pffft! That could be'' '''any''' '''50s sci-fi film!"''
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob''' on the film's title, ''Film/ShakeRattleAndRock'' review.
''Invasion of the Saucer
Anyways... the
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...
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Averted, but the government agents try it nonetheless.
* AliensStealCattle: Averted brutally
* AliensStealCattle: Averted brutally
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* DittoAliens
* DrunkDriver: Johnny does this, which leads to him getting arrested for running over a guy.
* [[spoiler:EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: Courtesy of the alien's WeaksauceWeakness]]
* EverythingsBetterWithCows: A drunk bull kills one of the aliens.
* FlyingSaucer: It's even in the title.
* DrunkDriver: Johnny does this, which leads to him getting arrested for running over a guy.
* [[spoiler:EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: Courtesy of the alien's WeaksauceWeakness]]
* EverythingsBetterWithCows: A drunk bull kills one of the aliens.
* FlyingSaucer: It's even in the title.
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* MistakenForAliens: The police suspects that the drunk youths mistook the guy they run over for an alien.
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Was remade [[MadeForTVMovie for TV]] in 1965 as ''[[AttackOfTheEyeCreatures Attack of the Eye Creatures]]''.
''Film/AttackOfTheEyeCreatures''.
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The design of the character of Morbo from ''{{Futurama}}'' is based on that of the aliens from this film.
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* {{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.
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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 [[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.
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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 [[TheOtherWiki Wikipedia]] Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} and [[{{IMDB}} IMDB]] 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.
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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 left 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.
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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 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.
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 ''[[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.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AlienInvasion
* CassandraTruth: Because they all smell like booze.
* LittleGreenMen: Whether it's played straight or for laughs is somewhat unclear.
* MyBrainIsBig
* PoliceAreUseless
* TouchOfTheMonster: A movie with this title simply would not be complete without a poster that bore this trope.
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler:The aliens die in bright light.]]
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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 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.
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 ''[[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.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AlienInvasion
* CassandraTruth: Because they all smell like booze.
* LittleGreenMen: Whether it's played straight or for laughs is somewhat unclear.
* MyBrainIsBig
* PoliceAreUseless
* TouchOfTheMonster: A movie with this title simply would not be complete without a poster that bore this trope.
* WeaksauceWeakness: [[spoiler:The aliens die in bright light.]]
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