If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Aliens take control of the mind of a scientist and use him to steal military secrets as part of a nefarious plan to take over the world.This very cheap science fiction movie was directed by W. Lee Wilder, the brother of the much more famous Billy. It stars Peter Graves who of course would go on to considerable fame as Jim Phelps in the inventive TV series Mission: Impossible. It's one of those old sci-fi flicks that appears especially ridiculous today. But despite what you might reasonably expect, this one is surprisingly mundane for the most part, although it is certainly enjoyable enough hokum to be fair. Its single most significant aspect is easily its alien villains. They are supremely silly creations, dressed in jump-suits and sporting ping pong ball eyes. Aside from them, there isn't really a lot to note in this one but it should still appeal to 50's sci-fi devotees, at least to some extent.

I know this is a very bad movie, but there is one thing i like about. It has almost all the elements of what would become the "classic" alien abduction account. This predates the Boas event by 4 years and predates the more famous Betty and Barney Hill abduction account by 7 years. :Spoilers:The movie starts with stock footage of an atomic bomb test. We see Peter grave fly around it to examine the effects. He sees a bright light on the ground and crashes. later he is found and does not remember anything that happened to him. Later he tells people about how he survived the jet crash. He was saved by an alien race who try to invade the earth with giant bugs, reptiles, and insects. In the end they are blown up by Peter. However he was shown that there are still billions of them in space stations and saucers in space waiting for earth to be ready. But for some reason no one saw that the aliens might have a plan B.I say just skip this one.

"Killers From Space" seems to attract a lot of negative reviews but I'm not sure why. It's not that bad, as cheesy, sleazy, poorly acted, and egregiously written science fiction movies go.The first thirty five minutes, in fact, have nothing to do with aliens or space anyway. It's a anti-communist spy plot. The remaining eighty minutes or so owe something to "Plan Nine From Outer Space." A scientist, Peter Graves, manages to survive a calamitous airplane crash after an atomic bomb test. He shows up in perfect health and evidently unchanged except for a new surgical scar over his heart. He's all set to go back to work. But the other high muck-a-mucks in the atomic bomb business claim he's acting strangely. That's an example of poor writing because, in fact, he's his usual self -- earnest, loving towards his wife, and friendly. Someone points this out to Graves' superior, played by Frank Gerstle, the only other recognizable face in the cast. Gerstle's riposte: "How do you disprove that scar?" I, for one, don't know. How DO you "disprove a scar"? Another interesting dilemma arises when the Air Force colonel sternly orders Graves to go home and relax. How can you relax when someone is ordering you to do it? That's known as a double bind. The logical paradox would have been clearer if the colonel had ordered Graves to be spontaneous. If Graves were then to be spontaneous, he would be following an order to do so and would therefore not be acting spontaneously.But enough of these rational caprices. Graves discovers that he's been saved by aliens who retrieved his body from the crash site, then hypnotized into digging up all sorts of classified information and delivering it to the aliens in the cave where they're hiding out, preparing to take over the world. Graves demurs. "You're asking me to betray three billion people." The writers didn't do any homework. In 1954, the world's population was a bit less than one billion. Today it's about 6.3 billion. (In 40 years it's estimated at 12 billion, something to think about when it comes to taking over the world.) The aliens are dressed in black sweat suits with hoods and have ping pong balls for eyes. That's pretty curious in itself. The director was Billy Wilder's brother and the story was written, I think, by Billy's nephew. Couldn't they have done better with the aliens? It would have been an improvement if, instead of trying to make them look strange and failing, they had simply used ordinary actors in ordinary period clothing.But -- even that problem is small compared to another that the film must prompt in the mind of any thoughtful viewer. Where did these aliens learn to speak English? Did they learn it from watching other cheap movies about aliens from space? It's a reasonable question because they speak the same in every such movie. There are only American accents to begin with, devoid of any regionalisms. No alien has ever said anything like, "I weren't listening," as a resident of Appalachia or Yorkshire might. No, their English is always standard and even includes a few multi-syllabic words. Yet none of them has learned to use CONTRACTIONS. "You are very clever," they say. or, "We have anticipated that." They always separate the pronoun from the verb. Whatever their information source, it was not a class in colloquial English.It's a tawdry film. It's the kind of thing that writers and directors might have pumped out overnight on a major dexedrine binge, recklessly and heedless of logic or art. It could have been better, and maybe even less expensive, had any of the elements shown any talent. As it is, there's not a touch of originality in it.

EAGGGH .. oh that's another film... well then, KILLERS FROM SPACE elicits the same reaction: and looks like a 70 minute shortened version of THE PHANTOM serial but filmed at the Republic cave sets and studio kitchen corners, but released by RKO. The most shocking and even incomprehensibly startling thing about this LOST PLANET level gibberish is that RKO released it on a double bill with a musical: THE FRENCH LINE...!! For a genuine 'what the...' reaction imagine the crowds flocking to see Jane Russell shake her tuille feather and instead get Peter Graves solemnly saving earth from aliens who look like cinema projectionists in overalls and cummerbunds... and ping pong ball eyes. What a joke! and this in the days when adults went to see THE FRENCH LINE and got this junk first instead. A musical and a kiddie sci fi episode. No wonder the industry died the death of a mangy dog in 1957.