Very well executed

Very Cool!!!

Excellent but underrated film

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

***SPOILERS*** The movie "Beast with one million eyes" has to do with this alien spaceship that looks like a futurist, for 1955, vacuum cleaner that takes over people as well as animals brains and cause them to do things that's destructive to themselves. Like going nuts as well as in all directions in and around the nearby California Desert. Why it does that is hard to figure out since it needs their very bodies,that's human bodies, for it or it's occupant,the beast with one not one million eyes,to survive.It's date farmer Allen Kelly, Paul Birch, who figures out what this thing is really all about but only after it ended up killing off half he cast of the movie. That's by destroying their brain cells and leaving them brain dead and in other cases like old man Cheaster Conklin-played by Ben Webber-who back in 1898 road with Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders up San Juan hill-have his cow do the dirty work for it. Allen was a lot luckier since he together with his wife Carol and daughter Sandy, Lorna Thayer & Donna Cole, were able to consolidate their brain power to keep it from destroying them. Not so their pet dog Duke and handyman Karl, Bruce Whitmore. Karl who can't talk due to a brain injury he suffered in WWII was easy prey for it since he was using half not his entire brain to fight it.***SPOILERS*** It's just when things began to look at their worst that Allen discovered the only weapon that can possibly defeat the thing, beast with one million eyes, and together with Carol & Sandy used that very powerful human emotion to put it to flight: The power of love! You can really see how desperate those who made the movie were in that even the special effects were as phony and cheap as any film made by the great bad movie director Ed Wood. Yet you somehow can't help liking the movie in that everyone in it,including the animals, seemed genuinely inspired by it! As if the films massage of "Love Conquers All" as well as the evil alien from outer space meant far more then the movies flimsy storyline or it's even flimsier special effects!

Most of the reviews of this movie have focused on acting, writing, and production values (or perhaps the lack thereof). This is what makes the film entertaining. In my view, the most interesting aspect of this film is its allegorical quality.This movie was released in 1955, during the blacklist period and the McCarthy hearings. The title refers to the alien's ability to takeover the brains of the lesser animals (birds, dogs, cows, chickens) as well as the brains of weak-minded humans. Doing this provides him with the ability to see what the rest of us are up to. To me, that seems a lot like informing on our neighbors and co-workers. And what's the defense against this alien threat? We defeat it by staying united and sharing our strength.Allegory or no, it's fun to watch the rampaging farm animals (perhaps a precursor to "Black Sheep") and the attacking blackbirds (props, I hope, tossed at a car window).

A strange thing has flown over the home of a family somewhere in a desert area. As it flew over, it made an unusual whine, and shook the ground and buildings as it passed. The family is already under a lot of stress due to the situation with the crop, and it has put a strain on everybody.Shortly after the thing flew over the property, the animals, domestic and wild alike, begin to exhibit strange behavior which includes attacking the people near them. Eventually, it is learned that the strange behavior comes from a small space craft of unknown origin. Whatever, or whoever, is inside eventually begins to control the humans which it comes in contact with.Let me say first, this movie is horrible. As I watched it, it began to appear that the title was very misleading. However, after some online research, I learned that the title refers to the alien force's (voiced by Bruce Whitmore) ability to see through the beings it possesses. This ability is not very clear, especially when we see the creature in the last minutes of the movie.The acting is not great in this one, and is pretty much forgettable. Out of the entire, extremely tiny cast of six people (on-screen), I would have to say Paul Birch, who plays the father/husband who eventually figures out something to defeat the creature, has the strongest performance of the entire cast. However, that's not saying much due to this being a typical B movie with an extremely weak script.This movie is suppose to be a sci-fi/horror. It does have a touch of science-fiction, but the horror is more laughable than scary. The first wave of the alien creature's attack is through the local domesticated and wild animals. You have the family dog apparently trying to kill the wife/mother (Lorna Thayer) at one point, but it is obvious that the dog is just running around enjoying itself. Not once did it look menacing. Another point, she is attacked by the chickens in the coop on the property, and this is easily the most laughable attack of them all since it's pretty obvious the chickens are being thrown at her from people off-camera.This is a low-budget movie, and it painfully shows when it comes to the special effects. The alien, which is seen briefly at the movie's climax, is obviously a rubber figurine. At one point, as the creature is revealed, it is covered by an eye ball obviously added in post production. The most annoying effect though has to be what is suppose to be the space craft's engine. I actually had to turn down my computer's volume because of it. The noise was not comfortable to my ears.The only reason to see this movie is its message of love. You might roll your eyes a bit when the message is revealed in the climax of the movie with the way it is related to the situation, but it is still a good message.If you like these kind of films, check it out. You probably would enjoy it more than others. If you expect some great scares, then avoid this one since they aren't there. This is not a great movie at all.

Beast with a Million Eyes, The (1955) * 1/2 (out of 4) Sci-fi flick has a great title but that's about it. An alien flies over a farmhouse and lands in the desert. The alien machine then takes control of all the animal's minds and makes them attack humans. This is such a low budget film that there only appears to be four or five people living in this city so there aren't really many attacks. What attacks we do get are quite stupid and leads to some unintentional laughs. There's a scene where chickens attack a woman and it's clear to see that someone is just throwing the chickens at here. There's another scene where an old man gets attacked by his beloved cow. Oh yeah. Then there's the highlight where a woman gets attacked by the family dog, although it's clear that this dog isn't trained because he has to stop during scenes and get new directions only to mess them up. None of the human characters are of any interest and when the alien finally reveals himself, we just hear him talking. Silly and stupid all around.