As cheap and cheesy as this is, it is pretty captivating and has some wonderful characters. Some aliens from a dying planet are teleported to earth to find blood. They have the ability to look into the eyes of a person and drop them to the ground. They then remove the blood and do whatever is necessary with he bodies. Paul Birch plays the principle alien, hiding behind dark glasses so his lifeless eyes can't be seen. Beverly Garland is hired to look after him (he is actually dying and needs the blood to survive). He also hires Jonathan Haze (Little Shop of Horrors), an idiot ex-convict to be his driver and helper. Of course, clues start forming and our young woman, despite being warned, starts to do too much investigating. There is some really interesting 1957 dialogue, especially from Haze. There is also a great scene where an obnoxious vacuum cleaner salesman comes to the door and tries to sell the alien a vacuum cleaner. The only thing that gets vacuumed is his blood. This is just plain fun and has a bit of a kicker at the end. Roger Corman was responsible for many enjoyable evenings in my childhood.
Review of Not of This Earth
