Vern Sheldon-Witter The awfullest movie I have yet seen- Barely any plot, acting made to get you running for the Pepto Bismol and a deaf blind and dumb 3 year old would do a better job at the technical side of this "movie"-however it was so damned funny it had me rolling on the floor. If you want a film technically made for "real" but is so awfully unreal, this one is for you. Dick Sargent as a barely adult Sheriff is the sole actor that I recognized. It is a revelation that dreck so awful would make me laugh so hard. So I guess it depends on what you are looking for. If you are looking for a chuckle,this might just fit the bill. If you are looking for even minimal SciFi/Horror try Plan 9 from Outer Space.

sol ***SPOILERS*** The movie "Beast with one million eyes" has to do with this alien spaceship that looks like a futurist, for 1955, vacuum cleaner that takes over people as well as animals brains and cause them to do things that's destructive to themselves. Like going nuts as well as in all directions in and around the nearby California Desert. Why it does that is hard to figure out since it needs their very bodies,that's human bodies, for it or it's occupant,the beast with one not one million eyes,to survive.It's date farmer Allen Kelly, Paul Birch, who figures out what this thing is really all about but only after it ended up killing off half he cast of the movie. That's by destroying their brain cells and leaving them brain dead and in other cases like old man Cheaster Conklin-played by Ben Webber-who back in 1898 road with Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders up San Juan hill-have his cow do the dirty work for it. Allen was a lot luckier since he together with his wife Carol and daughter Sandy, Lorna Thayer & Donna Cole, were able to consolidate their brain power to keep it from destroying them. Not so their pet dog Duke and handyman Karl, Bruce Whitmore. Karl who can't talk due to a brain injury he suffered in WWII was easy prey for it since he was using half not his entire brain to fight it.***SPOILERS*** It's just when things began to look at their worst that Allen discovered the only weapon that can possibly defeat the thing, beast with one million eyes, and together with Carol & Sandy used that very powerful human emotion to put it to flight: The power of love! You can really see how desperate those who made the movie were in that even the special effects were as phony and cheap as any film made by the great bad movie director Ed Wood. Yet you somehow can't help liking the movie in that everyone in it,including the animals, seemed genuinely inspired by it! As if the films massage of "Love Conquers All" as well as the evil alien from outer space meant far more then the movies flimsy storyline or it's even flimsier special effects!

lemon_magic As Bill Warren has remarked elsewhere, the thing that distinguishes Corman's products (I have a hard time calling them "movies") is a spark of intelligence and inventiveness in the initial conception of whatever the movie is supposed to be about. You can almost always tell a Corman flick from other cheaply made exploitation flicks because there is just enough strength and imagination somewhere in the screenplay, and one or two of the actors are just barely good enough, to keep you from burning the print and assaulting the person who showed it to you.That's certainly the case here. The basic plot, about a disembodied alien life force beginning its takeover of Earth in an isolated, lonely desert community and taking over the minds of the lower beasts and birds to serve as the vessel of its wishes...well, it's an intriguing idea. However, the execution this time around is bad enough to make Larry Buchanan and Herschel Gordon feel good.The hero is a good looking (if somewhat stout) fellow with a heavy, halting, lugubrious delivery of every...damn...line...of...dialog that wears out its welcome in the first 10 minutes. The wife and the daughter are even worse - neither of them can maintain a consistent screen persona for more than 30 seconds at a time. These short-comings could have been corrected by a competent director, or maybe one with a budget that allowed for a couple of retakes, but that didn't happen here, so it's like watching community theater actors in a town of 600 struggling with a script written by a 14 year old who saw an Pinter play once.My fried Dave Sindelar, of sci-film.org fame, put it very well - it's as if they brought 70 minutes of film to the editors and asked them to create a 75 minute film. The animal attacks that might have made this interesting are unconvincing cuts between shots of animals posing and actors reacting in fright...it's painfully obvious that no one involved with this thing knew how to wrangle animals or stage a fight scene (the one between a young, unfortunate Dick Sergant and the mute farm hand wouldn't pass muster in a high school play). There are endless shots of actors running off into the distance. There are a couple of disconcerting sequences where the background music takes over in scenes where there should have been some dialog, and it's heavy symphonic stuff that doesn't really match the on screen action.Mostly, it's just a bust. Having seen it once, I can see where "American Releasing Corporation" (soon to become AIP) developed its house style, so there might be a little historical value to it...but otherwise, don't expect much from "Beast".

bensonmum2 Not a very hard plot to describe: an alien force lands in the desert and soon begins to use animals (and a few weaker-minded humans) to do its bidding. The terror begins when the animals go berserk and start attacking the humans. In the end, the creature is discovered and defeated by something it cannot understand – love (no, I'm not making that up).The Beast with a Million Eyes was the third movie in a three picture deal Roger Corman had worked out with the cleverly named American Releasing Corporation (later AIP). Because this was the last movie in the deal, there wasn't much money left for a budget as is painfully obvious. Corman's plan to use a mostly invisible, unseen creature that attacked people through thought waves was genius in that it could be done cheaply with little to no special effects. Unfortunately, it makes for one very dull experience. Instead of a cool creature, the movie relies on acting. And as with the special effects, there's little to no real acting taking place in the movie. Most everyone involved is horrible. The only thing of interest to be found in the cast is a very young Dick Sargent of Bewitched fame in his first credited role. The script doesn't help. Actors are forced to say the silliest, most unnatural lines imaginable. The "Million Eyes" of the title are more metaphorical than anything else. The Beast uses the million of eyes of the animals and humans it dominated to see with. Get it? Clever, huh? In fact, the whole title – The Beast with a Million Eyes – is, to say the least, misleading. But I suppose it drew a bigger crowd than a more accurate title like The Shiny Spinning Coffee Pot in the Desert would have. Finally, there's that whole beyond hokey ending where (once again) love conquers all. Oh please! Can we be just a bit more cliché?Obviously, The Beast with a Million Eyes is far from the best sci-fi movie or the best Roger Corman related movie out there. But it does get a bonus point or two for effort and trying something different. Who knows, with a real budget, real special effects, a real Beast, a real script, and real actors, things might have turned out differently.