This Island Earth Reviews

(YT) Modest in cast but not in set designs and scifi aestetics. Even the forehead of the extraterrestrial is a happy choice. Domergue is sexy even when the direction tries her not to be...

I saw this as a very young child and it entranced my impressionable mind so much that I became absorbed with science and began building an interociter of my own. (It produced some impressively smoky pyrotechnics when I plugged it in - probably a fault in my dithermic cross-breeder flux capacitor - and I learned some new words as my father groped around in the dark to replace the house fuse. I went hungry that night and the workshop was off-limits for a while.)

It looks a little hokey now but for the time the science underpinning the story was surprisingly advanced and believable. Great for propeller-head kids. And Faith Domergue isn't unpleasing to look at.

This Island Earth this is one of the best 50s alien invaders movie ever the plot is an Alien race come down from a dying planet to ask the people of earth to help the Aliens or the Manutela Mutants are one of the best looking aliens in a 50 b-movie the technicolor does look gorgeous in cinemascope the was also seen in E.T. as a little homage and it was Lampooned in The Mystery Science Theater 3000: the movie.