The Eye Creatures
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VHS cover for the film
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| Directed by | Larry Buchanan |
| Produced by | Larry Buchanan |
| Written by |
Paul W. Fairman Robert J. Gurney Jr. Al Martin |
| Starring |
John Ashley Cynthia Hull Warren Hammack Chet Davis Bill Peck Ethan Allen Charles McLine |
| Music by |
Les Baxter Ronald Stein |
| Cinematography | Ralph K. Johnson |
| Edited by | S. F. Brownrigg |
| Distributed by | American International Television |
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80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $40,000 |
The Eye Creatures (also known as Attack of the The Eye Creatures) is a 1965 made-for-TV science fiction/horror film about an unnamed American countryside that is invaded by a flying saucer and its silent, shambling alien occupants. While the military ineptly attempts to stop the invasion, a group of young people, whose reports to the local police are dismissed as pranks or wild imagination, struggle to defend themselves against the menacing monsters.
The Eye Creatures, an Azalea Pictures film, was directed by B-movie director/producer/auteur Larry Buchanan and starred John Ashley. The screenplay was developed by uncredited writers Robert J. Gurney Jr. and Al Martin from the short story "The Cosmic Frame" by Paul W. Fairman (also uncredited). The film was a color remake of the 1957 black and white American International Pictures film Invasion of the Saucer Men, intended to fill out a package of AIP films released to television.
A military briefing film shows a hovering flying saucer resembling a domed yo-yo as the narrator, (Peter Graves), describes how the military's "Project Visitor" has been tracking it and anticipates it will land in the central United States. After the briefing, Lt. Robertson reports to the base near the expected target where he berates his subordinates for their habit of using the monitoring equipment to spy on teenagers making out in the woods. One of the teens sees an object land nearby and tells his friends at a local bar, including Stan Kenyon. Stan and his girlfriend Susan Rogers later accidentally hit one of the multi-eyed, lumpy greyish-white aliens from the ship with his car, so they drive off to call the police. Out in the woods, they are forced to use the phone of a grumpy local who resents the "smoochers" who use his property as a lovers' lane, frequently threatening them with a shotgun.
Meanwhile, one of two drunken drifters new in town comes across the dead creature and decides to put it on exhibition as part of his latest get-rich-quick scheme. When he returns to the site after excitedly rushing home to tell his buddy Mike, other aliens arrive, scaring him and causing a deadly heart attack. When the police finally investigate, they assume that Stan ran over the drifter and they arrest the young man, refusing to believe his crazy story.
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