An Impossible Picture  Truth and Lies about the Invasion of the
Star Creatures  Martin Kottmeyer  Talking Pictures alias
About Us   Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962) is totally
forgotten among science fiction film buffs, on purpose. Bill
Warren in his perfect history of 1950s sf movies, Keep Watching
the Skies, observed it as "astonishingly helplessly bad that
it's almost unwatchable." He was tempted to call the film
loathsome, but decided that bordered on flattery for this cipher
of a motion picture and risked creating the impression that it
might have the charming ineptness of the classic bad films,
whereas this bomb is uninteresting, unimaginative, boring, and
seemingly endless.   The popularity of the alien abduction
phenomenon in recent years provides us with an excuse for
tricking people into taking a second look at this R. I. Diculous
creation.   The movie is introduced with the assertion "This is
a true story. Only the facts have been completely distorted." We
have prevailed upon two world f