Must See Movie...

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Plan 9 From Russia.It's just terrible. Not only because it's designed to feed the general paranoia of the times. The threat was real enough. It's that the last thing we needed in 1952 was still MORE fear. After McCarthy, Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, and the Korean War, nobody was unaware of what was geopolitically up. MacArthur was urging us to nuke China. And, facts aside, fantasies abounded. There were Commies under every bed. We were told that Eisenhower himself was nothing more than a communist dupe. No kidding. Look up the John Birch Society.On top of that, the movie itself -- its very execution -- is a mountain of schlock. Lots of "combat" footage in the first half hour, ripped off from gun cameras used in Korea, Germany, and the Pacific. You get a chance to see another Japanese Kamikaze disintegrate over a carrier. The Russians are never identified as such. They're just the generic enemy in this film, a kind of re-run of the Nazis, complete with uniforms of riding breeches and boots, like the Gestapo.Let me put this in a nut shell. It's a commercial movie that has nothing to do with patriotism. It does not provoke thought, just regurgitation. It's designed to tap directly into the paranoia of the period, but it's so excruciatingly shabby that it can assuredly achieve its goal only in a mind no older than ten years. Yes, children will love it. The confusing world they live in is reduced to simple good and simple evil. Grape Nuts are good; masturbation is bad.The performers are actors and the roles are stereotyped, with two exceptions. Dan O'Herlihy adds a human dimension to his cynic. He's believable. He was fine in a similar role in "Fail Safe". And whatever happened to Peggy Castle, the blond in the case? She had an oneiristic beauty, something out of one of those scented ads in a glossy fashion magazine.Anyway, if you enjoy feeling that you're surrounded by enemies, this is your meretricious piece of cinematic trash.

A small diverse group of strangers lounge in a New York cocktail bar . Suddenly there's a newsflash and reports come in that a foreign power has captured key installations in Alaska and the whole of America is now threatened with invasion You want to make a small subtle point ? Well just get a sledgehammer to crack a nut and this propaganda film is it . The opening sequence is set in a cocktail bar and a middle class businessman complains about having to pay the top rate of tax and if this atrocious behaviour by the government wasn't bad enough they also feel the need to interfere in other aspects of the free market . Wow next thing you know they'll be banning smoking in bars or perhaps even banning the sale of alcohol itself . Taking taxes off people is rather small fry compared to what American federal government has done in the past or indeed the future when this film was made . Perhaps this character might like to live under a regime where people don't tax simply because they don't get paid . Oh hold on here's a newsflash " Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it comrade " I've seen a few Christian propaganda films recently that were all universally dreadful they made me forget there was a time when American studios were constantly spewing out propaganda like this one . Often they were entertaining enough to disguise the danger of communist invasion by producing science fiction films where the aliens were closet reds , usually from Mars which is " The red planet " . With INVASION USA no attempt is made to disguise who the invaders are . Even though both Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union aren't name checked you're under no misapprehension who these bloodthirsty tyrannical invaders really are . I suppose this is indicative of American thinking at the time but the invasion itself isn't creditably developed or delivered . If the Soviets capture Alaska as a bridgehead why not nuke the airfields in that state ? How are they able to fly over Canada with impunity ? How are able to bomb New York from San Francisco ? etc etc etc . There's also a lack of credibility in other aspects ? For example here's no sense of time passing between events and the time frame seems bizarre to say the least . How on earth can the TV news report detailed casualty figures to events that have just happened ? OF course there might be a very good internal reason to this once the film ends but while the film is entertaining - possibly for all the wrong reasons - it's never credible on even the most basic level

Invasion USA is another movie I had been looking for and recently obtained an NTSC VHS copy off E-Bay.A motley collection of people in a bar in New York are watching TV when it is announced on the news that the USA is being invaded by communists. Alaska is invaded first and then moving south, invading San Francisco, New York which is hit by an A-bomb and then Washingtion DC, where troops invade and takeover the White House.This is one of the more interesting movies made during the Atomic Age/Cold War and gave you an idea on what could happen if it happened in real life. Quite scary really.The cast includes both actresses who played Lois Lane in the 1950's Superman series, Phyllis Coates and Noel Neill. Also, Peggie Castle (Beginning Of The End), Gerald Mohr, Dan O'Herlihy and Edward D Roninson Jnr.Invasion USA is well worth checking out. Interesting and quite frightening.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.

A low-budget scare movie full of propaganda with tons of repeated stock footage. Having drinks in a Manhattan cocktail lounge are cattle baron(Erik Blythe), tractor factory owner(Robert Bice), TV reporter(Gerald Mohr), a fetching "hottie"(Peggie Castle)and a mysterious stranger(Dan O'Herlihy)that convinces all that the H-bomb has been released on America, when TV reports that Alaska and the state of Washington have already been attacked by Communist invaders. Actual bombings and air battles intersperse the overacting. Other players include: Phyllis Coates, Tom Kennedy, Wade Crosby and Clarence A. Shoop.