It's a flat, fish - eyed stinker that positions itself as a ripper of both the Price - anchored Roger Corman / Edgar Allan Poe films and the bona fide cycle of Jules Verne spectacles that began with Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), continued through From the Earth to the Moon (1958) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), and culminated in 1964's still - creepy First Men in the Moon, to which this film might owe its greatest debt. (filmfreakcentral.net)
Around 3.8 billion years ago, an asteroid more than 150 miles across, roughly equal to the length of New Jersey, slammed into the Moon and created the Imbrium Basin — the right eye of the fabled Man in the Moon. (sciencedaily.com)
Eventually, it brought men in moon suits prowling across the lawns of Hahn's otherwise sleepy neighborhood. (discovermagazine.com)