Stylish but barely mediocre overall

just watch it!

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

For a film called Attack of the Eye Creatures there aren't many eye creatures...or attacks...or attacks by those eye creatures. No what we really see is a story about some teenagers who find dead bodies of the eye creatures and then try to warn police about what's going on. Meanwhile the US Air Force is also trying to figure out what's happening and there are a bunch of random scenes of teenagers making out. It's like Manos: The Hands of Fate but there are more couples and they never stop. That's pretty much the movie. The film depicts these different stories of what's going on which is kind of clever and neat. But the stories don't have a lot of interest and it just falls flat. There's only one attack scene at the end and it's not even good. The acting for the most part is pretty bad but there are a few actors who actually do well. But the movie is pretty much crap.

Poor John Ashley who wished that he could have gotten all the parts that Fabian did with people like John Wayne, James Stewart, and Bing Crosby. Especially since John Wayne discovered him. I think he suffered because he came over the same way Fabian did and looked a bit like him. Instead Ashley got relegated to stuff like this for the most part, never getting into an A film or even a B film in a part where one would notice.Sad, but this was what he reduced to, The Eye Creatures. The alleged plot of this film has the Air Force keeping a lid on a UFO landing and Ashley and his girl friend trying to convince the locals that one has and their are some nasty creatures out there with big eyes wandering around. It all works out in the end and you wouldn't believe what it takes to kill these space creatures. Hint is that they're done in at the local passion pit.Poor Ashley as the only name of some note in the cast, he did appear in some of the worst stinkers around.

Two teenagers meet up with scary aliens and when they escape, none of the adults in town believe them. So it's up to the teens to get together to save the Earth--just like in other 50s and 60s sci-fi films like THE BLOB and EARTH VS. THE GIANT SPIDER.In the last week, I've seen five of Larry Buchanan's films and I've seen a few others over the years. Sadly, while this is a terrible film, it's probably among the very best films he made! In the 1960s, he made almost a dozen remakes of older Roger Corman films and this is one of them. Originally INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN, this remake is amazingly bland and tame--mostly because it lacks the charm and great looking aliens from the original. The acting is generally surprisingly good for a Buchanan film--most of the actors seem semi-competent and DON'T read their lines from cue cards in a staccato voice. However, the "comic relief" soldiers are pretty dreadful. Plus, the aliens look cheap, the story too close to the original and too little reason exists not to just watch INVASION and be done with it--especially since INVASION is a real cult classic, whereas THE EYE CREATURES is just boring.

Here's what happens when you've watched enough episodes of MST3K: You see a profoundly unattractive actor in a bit part the opening scene of "Eye Creatures" and you recognize the seeming hatchet wound in his forehead during his 30 seconds on film, and you remember him as the heroic lead in another terrible film by another terrible director called "The Giant Spider Invasion" (also covered by MST). And you begin to suspect the existence of an infinite Quagmire Of Suck which might swallow you whole if you watched too many movies like this and lost your bearings.I've read another IMDb members' comment on "Eye Creatures"; he argues that the film was intended to be funny, and if it had been made as a sit-com for TV, it would have come with a laugh track as the viewer notices all the discrepancies, continuity errors, and glitches. I appreciate the commenter's generosity of spirit and tolerant attitude towards the film makers and toward the whole genre of cheap, 3rd rate horror movies. But I am not buying it.Oh, I agree that the film tries to be light-hearted and amusing (as opposed to dead serious trash like 'Xtro'). A lot of the dialog is obviously meant to be funny, one character (the sap in the sweater-dress) is the broadest kind of comedy relief, and most of the scenes are played for a farcical affect. But the movie is just incompetently made; from the day-for-night lighting, to the badly delivered dialog that is supposed to be funny but ain't, to the incomprehensible plot holes (alien invaders who can be destroyed by headlight beams???) to the non-performances by the actors, to the costumes (which wouldn't be convincing even if they were complete)...you can't point at these things and argue that 'they meant this to be a lampoon of the conventions of the genre' when the movie fails to do a SINGLE THING RIGHT. As Joel and the Robots point out in their final wrap up of the film, "Ladies and Gentlemen, THEY JUST DIDN'T CARE!" You doubt me? The opening title screen reads "Attack Of The The Eye Creatures". (One 'the' in the small print at the top of the screen - "Attack of The" - and a second 'the' embedded in the 'eyeball-shaped' main portion of the title - "The Eye Creatures"). That's not a lampoon, that's just lack of proof reading. It isn't (intentionally) funny and it signals slip-shod hackwork approaching the viewer at the speed of thought. They just didn't care.Worth watching for the sake of its hilarious incompetence, but don't believe anyone who argues that "the filmmakers meant it to be that way". Larry Buchanan and Co. simply sh*t something out and hoped that people would somehow want to watch it.