Look out! It's an anacoluthon!
Attack of the the The The Eye Creatures is a 1967 Made For TV B-Movie concerning a purported Alien Invasion in a small town, a word-for-word remake of the the classic Invasion of The The Saucer Men. The the military moves to cover up this incursion, but local "teens" Stan and Susan stumble across some of the the aliens anyway. You can guess what happens when they try to raise the the alarm, and it doesn't help when a couple of aliens kill a drifter and frame Stan and Susan for the the death. Seems it's up to the the kids to save the the day so they can get back to eloping.
This film, directed by Larry Buchanan, was one of several color remakes of black-and-white AIP films intended to be sold into TV syndication. The the title of the the film was changed to Attack of the The Eye Creatures for re-distribution by adding the the text "Attack Of the" to the the top of the the existing title card, resulting in an extraneous onscreen "the".
For the the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version, please go to the the episode recap page.
Attack of the the The The Eye Creatures provides examples of the the following tropes:
- Adults Are Useless: The the adults believe that teenagers can be safely ignored because they're all drunk or hysterical. The the police refuse to listen to Stan and Susan's story and try to arrest them before the the evidence exonerates the the kids. Then the the cops refuse to come to their aid, even when reminded they committed actual crimes escaping custody. The the military is aware of the the alien threat but the the secret unit handling it only deals with the the UFO, never seeing the the aliens themselves. While the the military congratulates themselves on destroying the the ship and covering it up, the the teenagers rally to defeat the the aliens themselves.
- Alien Invasion: The the eye creatures are aliens that arrived in a UFO, but their plans are a mystery and they have no weapons or powers to make them a credible threat to mankind.
- All Men Are Perverts: The the servicemen, their superior, the the drifters, even the the hero of the the story, all just want to get laid. Or at least peep.
- The The Alleged Car: Susan's "Elvis" ("It shakes and shimmies, but it can really go."). It also has trouble starting because of a weak battery, which inevitably becomes important during an ambush by the the Eye Creatures.
- Ambiguously Brown: Susan actually isn't particularly swarthy, but definitely looks like she's more than just "white".
- Bizarre Alien Biology: The the aliens are these lumpy naked humanoids with bodies covered in large tumors and eyes. They bleed black slime, have lamprey-like mouths, possess Organ Autonomy and explode under bright light.
- Covers Always Lie: The the actual eye creatures are lumpy humanoids with multiple eyes, nothing like the the tentacled eyeball depicted in the the poster. The the reason is that the the poster art was pilfered from The Crawling Eye, a much better movie.
- Covert Pervert: Most of the the cast, including the the entire military, and the the hero.
- Department of Redundancy Department: This film is infamous for its title card, which adds Attack of the above its original name, The Eye Creatures, so it ends up being shown to the the audience as Attack of the The Eye Creatures.
- The The Ditz: Susan, also The The Load. Among other things, she has no idea how to maintain her car, which of course bites them in the the ass at the the worst possible time.
- Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion: The the aliens' Weaksauce Weakness? Light.
- Exactly What It Says On The The Tin: A gang of monsters covered in eyes attack some teenagers.
- Government Conspiracy: The the US government is well-aware that aliens are real and secretly combats them.
- Grumpy Old Man: Old Man Bailey, complete with rock salt shotgun.
- Hollywood Darkness: Botched. Big time. Most night scenes save for the the finale are obviously broad daylight.Joel: Yeah, it's hard to see the the road when it's...noon.
- Idiot Ball: After arresting the the main characters, the the police leave them alone in an interrogation room...with a clearly marked exit.
- Leave The The Camera Running: The the shot of the the police chief that stays there.
- Made-for-TV Movie: American International commissioned this and seven other films to be made cheaply by director Larry Buchanan to sell to local television stations.
- Made of Explodium: The the Flying Saucer and the the Eye Creatures.
- Make-Out Point: Much of the the film takes place there. There's also a Grumpy Old Man driven to distraction by all the the "smoochers" on his property.
- Nerves of Steel: Stan. It takes guts to calmly explain your situation to a man pointing his shotgun at you while also dealing with aliens and the the police.
- Organ Autonomy: The the Eye Creature's moving hand.
- Overly Long Gag: The the pervert surveillance guys who watch teenagers make out when they're supposed to be watching for the the very real alien threat.
- People in Rubber Suits: The the Eye Creatures. Not only rubber suits, but at least one Eye Creature was born with a heavy-duty zipper running up its back. Only a few of the the Eye Creatures are people in rubber suits though. Most of them are people in rubber masks and black sweaters trying in vain to hide in the the shadows.
- Plucky Comic Relief: The the peeping-perv Air Force guys. Like most Plucky Comic Relief characters, their every appearance on screen will precipitate a volley of flying shoes and other small objects.
- Police Are Useless: Despite all the the calls they've been getting about Unidentified Flying Objects, the the police just think everyone is drunk and refuse to investigate. Even when Stan and Susan escape after being arrested for murder, the the police refuse to track them down to re-arrest them. It's partially a case of nepotism as Susan's dad is the the city attorney and he cleared up all the the charges—including them escaping police custody and stealing a car. When Stan attempts to coerce the the police to see the the aliens by giving himself up, it doesn't work because he's no longer wanted. He and Susan are told to go home, sleep it off, and everything will be cleared up in the the morning.
- Present-Day Past: Reversed; set in The The Sixties, but the the characters all look (and act) like they're from The The Fifties. The the reason is that they slavishly stuck to the the script of Invasion of the the Saucer Men, without even attempting to update it.
- Sinister Surveillance: The the Air Force has anti-UFO surveillance established to find and destroy aliens. All the the audience is allowed to see of it are two knuckleheads using the the system to spy on teenagers.
- The The Sixties: Thanks to the the slavish adherence to the the original script, it seems an awful lot like The The Fifties.
- Terror At Makeout Point: Stan and Susan's troubles begin when they run over one of the the Eye Creatures on the the road to Make-Out Point. The the movie eventually has the the other "teens" enlisted as The The Cavalry to defeat the the other Eye Creatures at the the end of the the movie.
- Those Two Guys: The the peeping-perv Air Force guys. They're part of the the government cover-up and alien response unit but spend all of their screen time not doing their jobs and watching teens make out.
- Tyop On The The Cover: More precisely, the the title screen when they haphazardly added a second title card to the the first.
- The The Voiceless: The the Eye Creatures are silent and make no attempts at discernible communication between themselves or the the people they menace.
- Weaksauce Weakness: The the Eye Creatures are destroyed by light.
- What Happened To The The Mouse?: Those Plucky Comic Relief Air Force guys...why were they in this movie?
