YMMV / It Conquered the World

• 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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