The Beast with a Million Eyes Movie Review
A strange object crashes in the desert, near the home of the Kelley family. Soon after, animals, then people, begin behaving strangely, and seem to be on a mission to destroy the family. Based just on that short summary, we get the sense there's a lot going on with this 1955 "classic", but alas, it's not nearly as exciting as it sounds. The animals are almost exclusively of the stock footage variety, and their actions are less menacing and more mundane. But hey, if you like the footage, you will get a lot of it both at the start of the movie, then again throughout it. If you are expecting to actually see a beast sporting a million eyes, you're out of luck there, too--the title seems to reflect the alien's abilities to control other life, so through their eyes, the alien has a million eyes...or something. Speaking of our alien beast--while we hear his narration in the beginning, we get only a brief look at him, it's not until the end of the film.
I won't make you wait that long
In between our hello to the alien, and our inevitable goodbye, we see the spaceship in the desert, and every time we do, it makes an ear-piercing sound that will give you the sense your brain is vibrating. We get to know the family--for better or worse--and are treated to some hilariously bad dialogue--the exchange between the alien and Allan at the end is side-splitting, as the human preaches the idea of "all you need is love" a full twelve years before The Beatles did. This is concluded with the alien saying that notion is nonsense, getting frustrated, doing...something (I have no idea what) and flying back into orbit in his spaceship in what is a gloriously awesome shot. There are a lot of fun, entertaining, and even good science fiction films from the 1950's...The Beast with a Million Eyes is not one of them.
On A Scale Of One To Ten: 4
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