Nearly 40 years before "Mars Attacks" , the Earth was invaded by evil looking, bulbous headed, bug eyed 'little green men' in this campy classic from 1957. It is Saturday night in small town America and the local 'Lover's Point' is full of local 'kids' (actually 20-something's) who are there to make out and drink beer, when a typical flying saucer lands nearby. In a convenient twist, this 'Lover's Point' is now private property owned by a cranky, shotgun-toting farmer who uses it as grazing land for his cattle and prize bull, causing the 'kids' to drive the treacherous road past the farmer's house without headlights to try (unsuccesfully) to go undetected. Thus it is no surprise when a couple of the kids accidentally run over an alien, pinning it under their car and killing it. The dead alien's dismembered hand then sprouts long 'needles' fom it's fingertips and puctures the kids' tires - causing them to try to make it back on foot - before creating more havoc. In another interesting twist, instead of using 'ray-guns' or other sophistcated weaponry, these aliens' weapon of choice are these needles which extend from their fingertips which they use to inject pure alcohol into their victims - leading to many 'drunk' jokes and causing the local police to have a hard time believing all these reports of litte-green-men and flying saucers they have been getting... In one of the more entertaining scenes, the farmers bull, who has a habit of bumming beers from the kids and getting drunk, charges one of the aliens and scoops it up between his horns, even goring the creature in the eye, while getting stabbed repeatedly with it's alcohol injecting needles... when the farmer finds his prize bull he is alive but too drunk to stand up! Made on a shoestring budget (even for it's time) and obviously intended as nothing more than a campy comedy, this movie actually has some frightening moments and, in fact, it actually scared the crap out of me the first time I saw it on late night TV as a young kid in the early 60's...
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