That alien leader, little more than a head in a goldfish bowl, is oddly disturbing and an image that's stayed with me for my whole life. The more overt aspects of the story, which take place towards the climax, are also profound, and in this case the imaginative nature of the production outweighs the budgetary constraints. The paranoia is cloying and really raises the hackles, even as an adult, and even allowing for the cheesy over-acting of the child star. Interestingly, this is the earliest version I've seen on that theme, predating INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS by a couple of years. It's partly the Cold War paranoia-inspired plot about nice, ordinary people being taken over by a sinister foreign menace. And yet.there's something oddly menacing about this film. Scenes are repeated, special effects are wobbly to say the least, the aliens are silly rather than menacing, and the paucity of the production is apparent in every respect. Watching it now, as an adult, it's easy to laugh at what is a shoddy, low budget production. Looks like a lot of other reviewers were similarly traumatised. This one scared the hell out of me when I first saw it as a kid I remember them showing it in the evening on BBC2 back in the 1980s.
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