Welcome back to my Dark Corner of this Sick World
‘It’s horrible’
As B Movie aliens go, those of Killers from Space aren't as distinctive as Invasion of the Saucermen
or The Giant Claw, but you could probably still pick them out of a crowd
'Our eyes developed to this state to combat the ever growing darkness.'
and they’re calculated to strike right to the heart of the American way of life
‘we speak every language’
‘You can’t expect me to believe that’
Alien invasion; completely believable. Learning a foreign language? Unthinkable!
'Over a billion of you trying to come here to earth'
Some sort of travel ban is probably called for
‘Alright we’ll see about that’
They're coming here
'In our machines, magnetically propelled across the electron bridge we have created'
to escape their own doomed world
‘Yours is the only planet in this solar system capable of supporting our civilisation’
And they have a plan
‘We are accumulating the energy from each of your atomic explosions’
they then use this energy to create giant bugs and lizards
‘We are breeding, shall we say… armies’
Which they will release
'They will spread to every continent and will devour every living thing on the surface of the earth.'
Leaving them a planet with a serious pest, control but they have a plan there too!
‘We will use their bodies to fertilise the soil’
Kinda makes you wonder why they don’t just use that weapon to kill every living thing on earth
and use those bodies to fertilise the soil,
but since they've gone to the trouble of coming up with a plan it seems mean-spirited to nitpick.
‘We have everything under our complete control’
So why did you kidnap Peter Graves' Dr Martin?
'Because we had an important need of your services'
They need to know details of the final nuclear test, so they kidnap Dr Martin via a plane crash
'Come in tar baby two.'
and hypnotise him
‘You will obtain the data’
which let’s face it ought to be a piece of cake for these guys.
They even heal the injuries he sustains in the crash.
'I see you are quite well.'
Welding his chest back together, so even the army doctor finds nothing amiss when Martin returns
unable to remember anything
‘Well everything seems alright’
Ummm…
‘You don’t remember where you got this?
'Your medical chart shows no record of scars anywhere on your body’'
I’d have said a massive inexplicable scar showing up overnight would at least suggest that something is not alright.
‘This is ridiculous’
Under truth serum Martin tells his story
‘It will deprive his mind of any imagination’
May explain how the movie was written.
But do the army believe Martin?
No. So he must save the day single handed!
‘Nothing can stop us’
To collect nuclear energy the aliens need a vast electricity supply
‘They must tap it from the mainlines at the powerhouse.‘
without anybody noticing.
’They do it by parallel induction nobody’d ever know the difference’
that little piece of plothole sealing technical jargon maybe the equivalent of using bluetack to mend the Titanic,
but this information leads to a brilliant way to stop the aliens
'All we have to do is cut it off'
Okay, firstly, I'm not sure he thought the consequences through cos this is a quite troubling thing to see out the window
Secondly, when aliens invade earth I want James T Kirk setting phasers to kill,
I want Will Smith punching them in the face,
I want action, adventure, excitement! I want heroes overcoming insurmountable odds
‘Hey! No Parking!’
What I don’t want is their utilities to be cut off.
'you think I'm crazy, all of you.'
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Cutting off the aliens electricity wasn't exactly exciting
But it worked under any other movies where the evil plot could have been foiled by more Mundane means
Tell us in the comments below and thanks for watching
See you later Major