Kritiken (1)
Poster tagline: EVERY SECOND YOUR PULSE POUNDS THEY GROW FOOT BY INCREDIBLE FOOT!!! SHOCK BY INCREDIBLE SHOCK!!! THIS RAVAGING DEATH OVERRUNS THE EARTH, MENACING MANKIND WITH OVERWHELMING CHAOS!!! Just as they had successfully exploited the popularity of “The Quatermass Experiment” by adapting it to film, the English hoped to do something similar with a film adaptation of the 1956 seven-part series “The Strange World Of Planet X”. But the film was a flop in the United States and its later cult status is not really warranted. For 50 minutes, things run at half throttle, recycling three rooms where the actors deliver their dialogue without much passion. There's talk of freak storms and tidal waves, but we don’t see any of that, just bold headlines. Something more interesting starts to happen 20 minutes before the end, with mutant insects running around the forest (i.e. macro shots of grasshoppers, beetles and centipedes in front of static shots of a forest), soldiers shooting at them and one of the beetles nibbling on the face of one of the soldiers in a close-up. The main character, a young female scientist (whose arrival is commented by one of the actors in a strongly politically incorrect expression) gets caught in a spider's web and watches from the edge of the picture as a spider feasts on a fly on the rear projection behind her. The effects look like something out of Bert I. Gordon's stable in their quality, including a rushed ending with a painted landscape behind the actors. But at least you'll take away one important lesson: if you want to fit in secretly with humans as an alien, you have to shave!
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