Product Details

• Actors: Vic Perrin, Bob Johnson, Ben Wright, Robert Culp, Robert Duvall
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 51 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301968816
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #425,410 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly stylish episode!, January 20, 2001

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Lee Hartsfeld (Central Ohio, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Outer Limits: Invisibles [VHS] (VHS Tape)

While producer Joseph Stefano's script fails to make things as clear as they might be, "The Invisibles" has incredible style and atmosphere, mostly courtesy of director Gerd Oswald. Don Gordon ("Bullitt," "Papillion") is perfect as "GIA" agent Luis Spain, and future "Batman" regular Neil Hamilton and a pre-"Hogan's Heroes" Richard Dawson head a fascinating supporting cast. The plot concerns alien parasites from somewhere in space who are intent on using humans as hosts for--what else?--planetary takeover. Extremely effective and greatly enhanced by the cinema-level photography of Conrad Hall.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bring On the Sick, Nameless Nuclei!, March 26, 2002

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Bruce Rux (Aurora, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Outer Limits: Invisibles [VHS] (VHS Tape)

One of Stefano's best scripts, and one of the scariest OL entries. This one could almost be considered a logical sequel to "Corpus Earthling," in which alien parasites commandeer human hosts.

The Invisibles are "sick, nameless nuclei" spawned in space and fallen to Earth, looking like mutant horseshoe crabs, that attach to human hosts' spinal columns and seize control of them. The GIA (the CIA actually refused to let their name be used for the government agency in the story) have gotten wind of the Secret Society of the Invisibles, consisting of some very powerful political names, and infiltrate it with undercover agent Luis B. Spain. The audience accompanies Spain on his adventure of discovery into alien invasion, and gets quite a few chills along the way.

The tension and suspense in this episode are superior. It's a nail-biter. The possession scenes are uncomfortable, suggestive of homosexual rape. The cast is stellar, especially Neil Hamilton as a possessed general and the ever-arch George Macready as the head of the alien Society.

If this one doesn't make your skin crawl, well, then...you're probably one of Them.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PARASITIC HORROR, December 9, 2005

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Charles M. Britzman (San Dimas, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Outer Limits: Invisibles [VHS] (VHS Tape)

It's difficult to view old scifi movies nowadays without comparing their production design to what's available now. If you aren't in at least the 50-something age range, you probably never had a chance to see The Outer Limits in it's native context, and the makeup and props and models can seem fatally cheesey. But if you were lucky enough to grow up with The Outer Limits,there were episodes that pushed you into mental and emotional regions, both fascinating and horrifying,that you never visited before in your young life!

For me, "The Invisibles" was just such an episode. I wouldn't again feel that level of horror at the hands of a scifi tale until "Alien" came along 20+ years later. (In fact, I'll bet "Invisibles" set the stage for my reaction to "Alien")Maybe it's the idea of a parasite that you can't just pick off of you with tweezers that gets to me.

As others on this page have said, the performances are convincing, casting was excellent, and Stefano's prose sets the usual vague, dreamy backdrop. The unlucky "possessed" ones walking around like torture-survivors with attached-parasite hunchbacks under their shirts was mighty powerful TV, and the scene where agent Spain is being sworn into the cult, while an unsuccessful conscript, with his new hunchback, watches from the sidelines with darkened, baggy eyes and whispers the words "I just wanted to see if they gave you uniforms . . ." took me to the 'Outer Limits' of what I could process. Apparently, these things didn't turn you into a blank-stare, anesthetized zombie. You were still you, free to live the horror of each moment of this godawful thing attached to you, until your new master had something for you to do. Gut-wrenching. After watching this episode, I felt as if it had planted parasitic thoughts in my mind - scenes and feelings and considerations that I couldn't shut off or get over for days. It wasn't the sight of it, it was the thought of it.

And therein lies the greatness of The Outer Limits television series. I don't remember OL for it's special effects. Whatever they lacked, my practiced sci-fi watching brain would provide. What I do remember is the great writing and the human drama.

"The Invisibles" has both - and beware!