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"I expected to be frightened on my wedding night, but nothing like this!" With a quote like that, you might be expecting a body-horror film. Come to think of it, with retractable needles in fingers and eyeballs on hands, you might be right. Join this episode's Grue Crew - Joseph Perry, Whitney Collazo, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr - as they sing a chorus of "Old Man Larkin had a Phone" and laugh until the cows come home in Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957). Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 48 – Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) Directed by B-movie legend Edward Cahn and written by Al Martin and Robert J. Gurney Jr. , Invasion of the Saucer Men is all about some Brussels sprout-headed aliens with eyeballs in their hands and hypodermic needles filled with 100%-pure alcohol, which extend from and retract into their fingers. The Saucer Men use their finger needles to inebriate a couple young hoodlums and Farmer Larkin's bull, Walt. They also manage to kill Joe-the-alcoholic by increasing his already high blood-alcohol-content to a lethal level. Between these injection events, there's a lot of driving back and forth by young "hoodlums" while encountering Farmer Larkin ( Raymond Hatton ) repeatedly uttering "consarn," a pair of small-minded opportunists ( Frank Gorshin and Lyn Osborn ), an amazing collection of incompetent military and law enforcement personnel, and an assortment of clueless, adult townspeople. There's even a couple ( Gloria Castillo and Steven Terrell ) whose plan is to elope amidst all this chaos. Now that's what you call fun! Invasion of the Saucer Men is as much a comedy as it is science fiction/horror and the Grue Crew had a lot of fun with it. Though the laughs are plentiful, they all agree there are some genuine scenes of horror. Whitney gets a kick out of Farmer Larkin's dialect and wonders about the construction of Paul Blaisdell's alien design, all the while cringing at Walt-the-bull's injection event. Chad loved the creature design and ha
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