A pair of shots depicting a spaceship landing were taken from 1953's "Invaders from Mars."
After Carl is killed by the eye creatures, the police eventually attribute his death to heart failure as the result of alcohol poisoning. This is a holdover from an earlier version of the film, Invasion of the Saucer Men, in which the aliens possessed needle-like claws which they used to inject their victims with fatal doses of alcohol. However, this is never explained in the remake and so the issue remains unresolved in the finished film.
Apart from the usual stock themes, director Larry Buchanan borrowed from 1960's "The Hypnotic Eye," an early scene in a bar features the same tune Yvette Vickers danced to in 1958's "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman."
Earliest TV showings October 1967.
Originally entitled The Eye Creatures, the studio decided to rename the film Attack of the Eye Creatures by adding the words "Attack of the" to the main title screen above the original name. However, due to an oversight in which they ignored the presence of the word "the" in the original title, the end result is that later copies of the film featured the redundant title Attack of the The Eye Creatures.
Part of a series of color remakes of old AIP films by Larry Buchanan intended for television broadcast.
The same Eye Creature costume later turned up in the 1966 AIP release "The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini."
This was one of a group of films that was shot in 16mm and color and used to pad out one of American International's television syndication packages.