It Conquered the World

You know, if it weren't for the actual monster and the absolutely unblinking way Our Hero executes people, this might have been a really good movie. No, seriously. You have good actors, you have serious conflicts and arguments that aren't sugarcoated, you even have that rare role in a 50s movie where a woman is the probably toughest character in the entire story... and then the monster is, to quote Frank Zappa, an inverted ice cream cone. A pity. Still very much worth watching.

Good script and acting with bad special effects and lots of moralization. Roger Corman delivers another low cost movie worth watching.

50.

Superficially different from similar B-movies of the time, but not particularly more competent or entertaining than its kin.

Roger Corman #2

Surprisingly thoughtful, while still being enjoyably silly.

The monster alone makes it :-)

The story isn't actually that bad for a 50's movie. It's different than the usual Scifi stories from then. The alien's design looks so cheap, but that makes it fun. Acting isn't great. For example: a plane explodes in the air and 2 people see that happen. All the woman says is: 'horrible', and continue their conversation casually. Not shocked or anything.

Watchable on a saturday afternoon thanks to LVC.

Mst3k score: 7/10