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…
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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 (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…
Independence Day (1996) – Review
Alien invasion films have been a staple of science fiction movies for decades with such classics as George Pal’s War of the Worlds and Ray Harryhausen’s Earth vs. the Flying Saucers bringing alien destruction to the big screen, but in 1996 Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich took that standard sci-fi element and blended it with…
Battle of the Worlds (1961) – Review
When it comes to alien invasion films Hollywood has a few good examples under their belt, with George Pal’s adaptation of War of the Worlds and Ray Harryhausen’s Earth vs. the Flying Saucers being particularly good entries, but in 1961 moviegoers were treated to a science fiction adventure film from Italy, one where mankind would…