Alien invasions have been a staple of science fiction since H.G. Wells first penned his classic novel War of the Worlds but bringing such tales to the big screen comes at a cost, and not all studios can provide the budget to properly depict such events, enter Premium Pictures and their budgetary solution of “What…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) – Review
Considered by many to be “The worst film ever made” Ed Wood’s B-movie classic wouldn’t even crack the top ten if you took into account the thousands of crap films that have come out over the intervening years – looking at you Tommy Wiseau – but what is it that made this particular “bad film”…
The 27th Day (1957) – Review
Science fiction films with invading aliens are easily one of the more popular entries throughout the 1950s but in William Asher’s The 27th Day we get aliens who take an interesting tactic when it comes to teaching Earthlings a lesson or two and setting up a “benevolent” colonization.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) – Review
Tackling a remake of a much-beloved classic was certainly a daunting task but in 1978 director Philip Kaufman set his sights on helming a remake of the 1950’s classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a film that blended the communist scare and science fiction in a not-too-subtle way, and made his own masterclass in paranoia.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) – Review
Hollywood loves a good alien invasion story – the George Pal adaptation of War of the Worlds and Ray Harryhausen’s Earth vs the Flying Saucers are classic examples of this – but with Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers we don’t see any national monuments being blasted by rayguns or fleets of alien spacecraft…