IntroductionGreat print, great remastering, preserving original film and audio--no "enhancements" or fake effects. The reviews sum up what to expect from the movie, but the one con I might add is, so typical of these old sci-fi flicks is the ratio of 90% dialog to 10% action and effects (most of its 83 minutes is talk, keeping you waiting and waiting to see the handful of brief alien scenes).
Another major con is--and this always annoyed me, even when being terrified by the film as a kid--the aliens look like penis heads...like some of these "professional" reviewers have shown themselves to be, comparing the special effects to today's sophisticated tech. And they forget that when kids saw this 50 years ago--and I'm sure that's who these movies were mostly meant for--kids were both astonished and terrorized.
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