Invisible Invaders (1959 film)

**Based on** | *The Invisible Man* by H. G. Wells

Invisible Invaders is a 1959 Science fiction film directed by Edward L. Cahn.

## Plot

Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity unless all the nations of earth surrender immediately. Sequestered in an impregnable laboratory trying to find the aliens’ weakness, Penner, his daughter, a no-nonsense army major and a squeamish scientist are attacked from outside by the aliens, who have occupied the bodies of the recently deceased.

## Cast

* Hal Torey as The Farmer
* Robert Hutton as Dr. John Lamont

## Production

Production of ***Invisible Invaders (1959 film)*** began in December 1958. The film was made as part of a package deal with *The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake*. It was the fourth science fiction film made by Premium Pictures.

The shooting schedule and budget are not known. Byron said in an interview that the "picture was filmed rather quickly. I remember the director moving from one set-up to the next very rapidly". Film critic Bill Warren called it a "cheap little picture", noting that it "couldn't possibly have had a shooting schedule longer than two weeks (probably one)" and that the movie gives "every evidence of having been made in great haste".

Costs were held down, in part, by re-use of special effects artist Paul Blaisdell's monster costume from 1958's *It! The Terror from Beyond Space* (also directed by Cahn) during a sequence in which one of the invaders is encased in plastic so it can be seen. According to author Randy Palmer, "To help camouflage the costume, optical effects were added to lighten the image and give it a distinct blur, so that it's very difficult to tell that the invader's true form matches that of (Blaisdell's) Martian Lizard Man". However, as Warren pointed out, by 1959 "no one cared about SF movies made on this budget level. They were just a product to get on the screen as soon as possible".

Warren also commented on the film's extensive use of stock footage. "A great flurry of stock shots" were used "as the invaders smash things all over the world - fires, quakes, buildings collapsing, dams bursting". This is "dispiriting," but "the very cheap and shoddy effects match the overall tone" of the movie. The stock footage includes the fatal car wreck scene from 1958's *Thunder Road*. Footage shot for the film itself was also repeated, with scenes re-used of the invisible alien making parallel grooves in the dirt as it shuffles toward Dr. Noymann's grave and then pushes aside some bushes.

## References

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1. ↑ https://letterboxd.com/film/invisible-invaders/details/
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## Gallery

Main article: Invisible Invaders (1959 film)/Gallery

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