- Critical Dissonance: Holds an IMDb rating of 4.9 while having a Rotten Tomatoes score of 80%.
- Ethnic Scrappy: Cpl. Manuel Ortiz, who was certainly one of the more tolerable and less played up ones.
- Fridge Horror: What if the death of the mind controller frees the victim?
- Retroactive Recognition:
- Peter Graves, of course, later starred in the Mission: Impossible TV series.
- And Lee Van Cleef went on to star in For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and many other Spaghetti Westerns.
- Special Effect Failure: Cited by Frank Zappa in his opening monologue to "Cheepnis" on Roxy & Elsewhere. At least one of the shots of the alien features the two-by-four used to push it into the shot being dragged quickly out of the frame.
- Took the Bad Film Seriously: Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, and especially Beverly Garland give the film way more credit than its cheap script and shoddy special effects deserve.
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