Juonikuvaukset(1)
Ranch country is invaded by a series of weird events: birds go after humans and normally tranquil animals turn vicious. A rancher discovers that a mysterious creature with a million eyes is feeding on the animals' brains. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
Arvostelut (2)
Poster tagline: AN UNSPEAKABLE HORROR! DESTROYING AND TERRIFYING! This is just bad. I don't think Roger Corman (here as executive producer) brags about this film to his grandchildren. The title promises a B-horror ride, but the alien, endowed with more than a million senses, makes its first appearance in the last seconds of the film, in a form reminiscent of the lazy peek of my hamster when she looks from the opening of her bed what kind of grain I've put in her bowl. The spaceship in which the alien lives and uses radio waves to control the minds of the surrounding animals and humans (in real life, a farming family and their weird neighbour) is located somewhere in the Texas desert and looks like a food processor. There’s a rabid dog barking at the camera and, just in case, we have plush ravens thrown at the camera playing hostile birds. The performances are appropriate to the level of this cinematic dreck: listless and uninvolved. The only one who’s alive it at least a little bit is Chester Conklin, whose exaggerated gestures let us know who was THE star of silent films in the old days.
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This is an incredibly boring science fiction movie about an alien who can control the minds of animals and some people, and thus disturbs one rural family. This is an ideal example of a movie, where they thought of a sensational title first and then prepared a solid advertising campaign in order for the movie to be bought by as many movie theaters as possible, and only then someone started making up what the movie might actually be about, and if it ended up being about nothing, well, that would have been fine by the producers as well. The whole movie is just a load of talking, the actors do not even try to perform and you can only "enjoy" the title monster for about a second at the end of the movie (it seems there was no budget left for the advertised "1,000,000 Eyes"). Competing against other much more interesting B-movies of the mid-fifties this comes off as a rightfully forgotten cheap-looking crap.
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