American anti-intellectualism at its best.

The foolish scientist seeks to communicate with what he doesn't understand, while everyone else tries to destroy it. The dumbest always know best.

The late naturalist Stephen Jay Gould, who was the Alexander Agassiz professor of Zoology at Harvard University, tore this film a new one in an essay once. He loathed the film and its message of vigilance vs reason. It glorifies fear, xenophobia, and irrationality.

This film was anti-communist propaganda at its worst. Fear the ways of the foreigner, yours is the true culture.. The foreigner seeks only to exploit and corrupt your people. It's a message that's been repeated many times in many cultures.