Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

We endured this turkey in its entirety last night after watching "Destination Moon" (1950), so we were certainly in the right frame of mind for a good dose of hokey 1950's "B" sci-fi. This is a disappointingly dull and uninteresting pot-boiler, obviously intended for no other purpose than being run as a second feature. I am baffled by the reviews here claiming that this is "ahead of its time" and comparing it with old "Outer Limits" or "Twilight Zone". I have to wonder if I was really watching the same movie. The acting could have been done as well by wooden cigar-store Indians. The dialog (for the most part) is insipid. The only "special effects" are a shaky and out-of-focus camera on a few shots. While the director had a great location to work on - a massive old mansion - he failed miserably in using it to his best advantage. He could have used the setting to really ramp up the tension (as was done with "Saltair" in "Carnival of Souls") but instead about half of the movie is shots of the two main characters wandering around and back and forth, seemingly lost on a large estate. When the best things about a movie are the cars (a 1954 MG TF, a 1962 Plymouth Fury Wagon, and a 1960 Plymouth Taxi Special), and it's NOT a movie about cars, you know it's a loser.

Just a boring stinker of a movie. You won't want to watch it again, ever. I love these long boring reviews trying to analyze an boring film. Have fun. LOL

I'm supposing that our Mars probe is considered an invasion. So the Martians are fighting back the best way they can in The Day Earth Invaded Mars.Kent Taylor and Marie Windsor who play a top NASA scientist and his wife are the targets of the Martians who have invaded earth avoiding detection and are replacing Taylor and Windsor with body doubles. All this to make sure probe reports zero life on Mars.These two movie veterans look pained throughout this most tepid science fiction film. The rest of the cast looks similarly bored.One thing I can't figure out, how did Taylor rate the mansion he and the family were living in.

It's hard to believe that just a few years later, we'd have sci-fi flicks like "2001" and "Planet of the Apes." Nevertheless, this ;ow-budget sci-fi shocker from the early '60s and starring several Hollywood veterans is compelling enough for its time. NASA's first Mars rover sends back to Earth a burst of energy before it is destroyed. That burst of energy contains Martians, and the Martians imitate the people they come into contact with, in this case a NASA scientist and his "Father Knows Best" style family. The Martians are not above murder, either, as they incinerate those they imitate. In this regard, the film, mostly shot on somebody's old estate, is reminiscent of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." The lush, loud, string-driven music sounds like it might have been written for a Tyrone Power epic. No special effects, of course. Just solid acting of a slightly fruity kind and a downbeat ending that is in keeping with the plot -- and yet comes as quite a surprise for what amounts to a kiddie matinée flick.