Killers From Space
Peter Graves vs Big Eyed Aliens!
Dr. Doug Martin-Played by Peter Graves. A scientist dude who meets some aliens and is the only one who can stop them!
Kurt-Doug's friend who thinks he's cuckoo all the time. Especially when he starts talking about aliens with bug eyes.
Col. Banks-The man in charge on this army base. Likes to smoke.
Briggs-An F.B.I agent sent to investigate the weird dissapperance-and reapperance-of Doug.
Helen-Doug's wife. Uses sex to keep her husband home.
The Aliens-Have giant bug eyes and plan on taking over the Earth with the use of giant bugs. Hm, now I see the connection.
"Killers From Space" is sort of a mis-leading title. There are aliens from outer space in the movie, but they don't really kill anyone. Well, I suppose technically they killed one person, but it was a result of a crash, so it was kinda indirectly. And they do set out to wipe out all of humanity, but they don't succeed. When I see the word "killers" I think a whole bunch of killing has happened or is going to happen. Or I think about the band who sang "Mr. Brightside".

Anyway, the movie starts off with a whole shitload of stock footage of people standing around in the desert. A narrator informs us we are in Nevada and these people are here to watch an A-Bomb go off. I guess all the casinos were full. Then we're introduced to our star Peter Graves, as Dr. Martin. I'm unsure what the official job title is but he flies around the mushroom cloud of a bomb and measures radiation and whatnot. And much to my dismay, the name of this plane is "Tar Baby". I guess "Wet Back" was taken.

During this fly-by, the pilot notices a shiny object on the ground. I didn't know people with A.D.D can become pilots. Wanting the shiny, he flies towards it, but he loses control of his plane. Good job Captain Distracted. We hear the plane crash and it fades to black. The end already? That was easy.
People preparing for the nude Hillary Clinton photo shoot.
New from the military: See-Thru Planes
There's a liiiight...over on Highway 10!
Ah, no such luck. At the nearby army base that runs these tests I guess, everyone is talking about the crash and they bring in Doug's wife Helen to tell her that her husband is dead. She cries, the army dudes smoke, end scene. Now is it the end?

Nope. Here comes Peter Graves, staggering his way into base. Everyone is shocked to see him and pretend they totally weren't going through his possessions. They find a L-shaped scar on his chest over his heart and Doug says he has no idea how he got it, or what happened to him period. Soon Briggs shows up and comes up with this story that Doug isn't the real Doug but a fake Doug! GASP! So they run his finger prints and found...he is Doug. Boy, that was exciting. The doctor declares him a clear bill of health and tells Helen to take him home.

Later that night, Doug wakes up at 3 AM to a pair of giant eyeballs floating in his bedroom. He does the "close your eyes for 5 seconds" thing and they're gone. Then he starts getting antsy about when the next bomb is going to drop. No one will tell him cause he's off-duty and needs to rest. Doug is like "fuck that" and starts to get dressed to go to the base. Helen, knowing that she must do her job to keep Doug out of the base, is FORCED to have sex with Doug to keep him home. That's right, his own wife is forced to fuck her husband so he can stay home. Makes you feel better about marriage, huh?
Co-starring President Eisenhower!
See, he's not a real doctor. No doctor actually uses that thing. Especially creepy ones.
Lucy Lu was here!
(See, I didn't go the Laverne route. Gotta be current, you know?)
You ever get that urge to watch Seseme Street?
The next morning, Doug finds out that they did indeed set off another bomb and he's pissed about it. He rushes over to the base and yells at Kurt and the Colonel that this is his project and he should be notified of such things. Everyone is like "Dude, what's up your butt?" and they send him packing.

But Doug doesn't go home. He hides out in his office for two hours, just smoking his pipe. Kurt puts some super secret papers in a giant safe and leaves for the days. To build tension, Kurt walks into Doug's office, doesn't think anything of the fresh pipe smoke that surely must be in the air, and leaves.

Doug then opens up the secret safe and makes a giant mess. I'm guessing he won't learn how to properly break into a safe until he joins up with M.I. Anyway, he finds what he's looking for and he gets out. A security guard finds the mess Doug made and calls everyone back to the base. Briggs does some "investigating" which really means he notices Doug pipe tobacco and realizes that all the other characters smoke cigarettes, leaving the suspect to be Doug!

Doug is driving all over the place, until he gets to the desert. He starts to put a piece of paper under a rock but Briggs shows up all out of nowhere and stops him. Really, where the hell did he come from and how did he know Doug was coming here?

While Briggs is confronting Doug, Doug just notices Briggs' eyes and freaks out, knocking Briggs out. Doug makes a run for it and is instantly a fugitive! But Harrison Ford he's not. He shows up at a gas station where the gas attendant JUST SO HAPPENS to have a police scanner. They put out a APB for Doug and he gets the hell outta there.

While driving, Doug sees another pair of giant eyes and he crashes his car. I hope his insurance covers giant eyes on the road, otherwise he's screwed. He wakes up at the hospital and everyone wants to know what the fuck is going on. Doug then starts acting all crazy saying they're gonna kill them all and stuff. Maybe he just wants to listen to the Metallica album. Just a hunch.
A little something for the ladies!
Obviously, this is what got him the job on "Mission: Impossible"
The doctor injects Doug with some truth serum which deprives his mind of imagination, which I'm guessing is what the film makers were taking. Ohh, that was good. Anyway, now it's time for Doug to tell his story about what the hell happened to him after his plane crashed.

He woke up lying on a glass table and some aliens with giant bug eyes are operating on him. They had to restart his heart, which explains the giant L on his chest. They then take him to their leader, who speaks English, cause "they know every language in the Universe". I guess he's an alien polyglot. (Impressed?) The leader is interrupted by another alien on the surface taking a reading of the A-Bomb we saw go off in the beginning, but he's talking backwards. Now we know where David Lynch gets his ideas from.

The leader tells Doug that they came from a planet called Astron-Delta and it's sun was slowly burning out, which caused the planet to slowly die. They decide to pack up and invade other planets to take over and live there. Now, I'm not entirely clear about this. Either they've taken over several planets and scattered the population, the planets they've taken over also died out, or they just thought it'd be fun to take over OTHER planets. Any event, they're now here on Earth to take it over, but first they must destroy man-kind.

Doug is like "Um, no" and he runs out. Then we're treated to a 20 minute scene of Doug running all over the place (which by the way is somewhere underneath the surface of the desert. I wonder if Peter Graves came in on a horse with no name) and finding huge giant bugs. You name it, they have a giant version of it. Lizards, spiders, snakes, even cockroaches, and grasshoppers, which Peter is no stranger of.
A cult that worships Marty Feldman!!
I...am....the....arm.
Marty Feldman himself!!
Peter Graves Meets The Giant Gila Monster
After this long dull scene, he finds himself back with the leader and he tells Doug that they're gonna use the giant bugs to kill the humans, but they're not strong enough yet, they need another healthy dose of A-Bomb radiation to make them super powerful to take over. Doug then notices that their equipment is being run on electricity that they're stealing from the surface. Probably stealing cable too.

The leader somehow sensed that Doug really wasn't gonna help them, so they're forced to hypnotize him into doing it, which is why he stole the date of the next A-Bomb and went to the desert with it, putting it under the rock. The flashback ends and everyone is looking at Doug like he has giant bug eyes.

They pretend they believe him and put his ass to sleep. They call Helen to tell her that Doug is a nutcase and Doug further proves this when he wakes up and attacks an orderly for no reason. But suddenly he calms down and says he needs to talk to Kurt, and has to do some figures. No, not figure 8's.

Kurt shows up and Doug tells him that they have to turn the power off in the city which will cause the alien's equipment to short out and blow up. Yes, this is his big plan, hoping that the alien's fuses blow. Kurt is like "Yeah..uh-huh...sure...." but Doug is like "NOOO!!!" and he runs out and heads to the power plant.

We get another delightful scene of Peter Graves running around, this time in the power plant, and being chased by Col. Banks, Helen, Kurt, and Briggs. Finally, Doug finds the main switch and confronts the dude working it. The dude pulls out a gun, cause I guess this has happened to him before. Doug gets the gun away and now uses it on the dude. The gang hunting for Doug catch up to him and the dude slowly switches the power off. Finally, he switches the final switch and Doug is like "if nothing happens, you can put me in prison where I'll be gang raped to death. But if I'm right, I get to be king for a day" and before 10 seconds are up, there's an explosion in the desert.

We get a shot out the window and it looks like this power plant is 500 stories up cause we see a very typical overhead shot of the explosion, which is suppose to be the alien's lair exploding and dying and stuff. The movie ends but...did they really explode ALL the aliens, or were these just some people who were suppose to get everything started? Oh well, let's just assume those were all the aliens and they're all dead. Yay.
Don't worry about the radiation. The window is closed.
For a movie called "KILLERS From Space", it's pretty boring. And Peter Graves, well, acts like Peter Graves the entire time, even when he's mad, or excited, or happy. The bug eyes on the aliens is pretty funny though and was kinda distracting me. I had to watch this a few times to pick up on what they were on Earth for. Overall, it's just a typical 50's movie about aliens trying to take over Earth, nothing special. And the story is a big silly. But just in case, I'm gonna blow up any bug eye people I see.
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