Critical Review
The Eye Creatures is infamous for its many production errors and goofs. The story takes place during a single night, but movie criticism website Rotten Tomatoes points out that these night scenes include intercut shots from obvious daylight shoots. (This is particularly confusing given the eye creatures' sensitivity to light.) A string can be observed during a scene where a creature's severed hand creeps toward Susan and Stan.
The creature costumes in particular presented problems for Larry Buchanan. There were not enough full costumes for all the creature actors during crowd scenes, so some scenes include creatures with only head appliances, wearing skin-tight black outfits in an attempt to hide their costume deficiencies. Finally, in keeping with a frequent practice of B-movie re-release retitling, the phrase "Attack of the" was grafted on top of the original in the title screen. Unfortunately, the editor failed to notice that the original already included a "the", producing the redundant Attack of the The Eye Creatures.
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