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a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Here we have Forrest Tucker in the middle of a group of British scientists who are doing experiments with magnetism. The experiments seem safe to them, but to the locals, they are reaping havoc on their TV sets and other devices. In the opening scenes a man is injured by a discharge from a console and is replaced by a pretty young French woman. What ultimately happens is that an alien presence appears, a man who comes up with the unimaginative name of "Smith." He is there on a mission of some kind, but we don't know whether to fear him or embrace him. Meanwhile, one of the original scientists becomes overwhelmed with power and start to take over the mission. It seems that what they are doing is causing insects to attain enormous size and attack people in the countryside. While it was a bit stuffy, it's not bad.

Creepy over-sized insects, frogs & spiders. The British military has a few shots at them with bolt action Enfield rifles. Flying Saucers , Ed Wood would have sold his favorite cashmere sweater to have in his films. A mad scientist & genuine suspense as the huge bugs surround a rural schoolhouse with antennae silhouetted on the wall & in windows. I saw this on late nite TV back in 1965. Never knew what the title was until tonight when it was screened on TCM. As a 12 y.o. , it scared the pants off me while delivering a few laughs. Seeing Martin Benson in another role besides his highly recognizable character, "Solo" in "Goldfinger", not to mention one line delivered by Peter Copely whom I knew as "the Jeweler" in Beatles' film "Help", was quite a treat. What stuck with me most of all was the quote by the little girl character(Jill) explaining to Martin Benson's "Smith" .... "all insects are bugs, but not all bugs are insects". It's a quote I have had the opportunity to utilize in many situations over the past 46 years.

I have been a collector of the British cinema of the 1930's to the mid 60's for some years. One of my principle interests is in the backgrounds and 'business' behind the main story.Science fiction films were difficult to produce at the time in Britain, as the budgets were low, even in comparison to US 'B' movies , and yet to earn export dollars they had to be pleasing to an American audience.Fortunately for we viewers this film has avoided falling in to the trap of using wobbly scenery to subsidise special effects The setting for the story is an attractive but unremarkable village on the south coast conveniently close by train and coach to London.There is the village pub, the police station, the school, Brierley woods and the discreet research centre.These all provide authentic backdrops for the well constructed and well developed plot.I suspect that the giant insect incident with its macro-photography and army documentary splices was 'shoe-horned' into the plot to make the film more saleable in the US.The science of the fiction is not only of the same style as perhaps John Wyndham or Quatermass, but also Fred and Geoffrey Hoyle, its presentation laid out as stage play and a novel.Watch this film with enjoyment, particularly if you can appreciate the difference in rank between a Hillman and a Singer car driver..!!!

As a very young lad in the late 50's with an older sister who had a car, I spent many a Saturday with her and her friends at the local movie theater watching the latest horror movies.She says this was my choice because I did'nt like Westerns. Well I can't remember that but I do vaguely remember a certain double feature that scared the hell out of me. When I got home I did not want to go to bed(our house was in the country with woods all around). I thought the real frogs,crickets, and other bugs I heard outside were giant insects coming to get me. Since that night some 45 years ago I have seen countless 50's SF and horror movies hoping to find out what those 2 movies were. Many were similar and some had similar names ie."Thing From Another World", "Monster That Challenged The World"(I also saw it when I was a little older but it did not scare me quite as much),"X The Unknown","The Beginning Of The End" etc. but none were exactly "right".I began to think these movies did not exist or had gotten lost so I just gave up ever finding them, especially since no tv station we get ever shows any old SF or horror movies anymore.Since I had no idea of their titles(if they did exist) or actors in them , I logged on to the imdb and starting reading reviews of some of the movies and BINGO!!!There they both were. I could not believe it.Thanks to the great descriptions by your reviewers I finally found them. Needless to say they have both been ordered. The scariest to me was "The Strange World of Planet X", probably called "Cosmic Monsters" or "Crawling Terror". I can't give a a decent review of either movie because it has been 40+ years. By the way the other goodie was "The Trellenberg Terror" aka "The Crawling Eye" or "The Creature From Another World" . Now my life will be even more complete (ha ha) when someone comes out with a DVD or VHS of "Caltiki ,The Immortal Monster".I did catch it on tv as an "adult" of about 14 years of age but have not seen it since.