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Shin Ultraman (2022): Feat. Hidetoshi Nishijima, Takumi Saito, Masami Nagasawa; When the SSSP kaiju defence taskforce finds itself in the midst of a particularly ghastly kaiju encounter, a giant silver robot descends from the sky…
Psycho Goreman (2020): Dir. Steven Kostanski
Feat. Nita-Josee Hanna, Owen Myre, Steven Vlahos; A nostalgia–soaked Creature Feature that is a commendably light–hearted yet ultra–violent slice of cosmic comedy/adventure about an…
Men in Black: International (Men in Black 4) (2019): Dir. F. Gary Gray
Feat. Tessa Thompson, Chris Hemsworth, Rebecca Ferguson…; Reboot of the sci–fi comedy about the top–secret organization which protects the earth from alien activity. Tessa Thompson and Chris…
War of the Worlds (TV Mini-Series) (2019): Dir. Craig Viveiros
Feat. Eleanor Tomlinson, Rafe Spall, Rupert Graves…; 3 Part
5th Wave, The (2016): Dir. J Blakeson
Feat. Chloe Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston…; Based on the popular young adult novels, this post–apocalyptic thriller sees Moretz frantically search for her younger brother after Earth is…
Arrival (2016): Dir. Denis Villeneuve
Feat. Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker…; Amy Adams plays a linguistics expert who is recruited by the military to determine the intentions of seemingly–benign alien visitors who have…
Independence Day 2: Resurgence (2016): Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Jessie Usher…; Routine effects–heavy sequel is set decades after the first Independence Day invasion, and finds Earth once again faced with an alien threat.
Childhood's End (TV Mini-series) (2015): Feat. Mike Vogel, Osy Ikhile, Daisy Betts…; Sci–fi mini–series based on the 1953 novel by Arthur C. Clarke that posits the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious…
Alien Abduction (2014): Dir. Matty Beckerman
Feat. Katherine Sigismund; Expect the expected in this routine though entirely competent "found footage" horror chronicling the terror of a family who encounter alien abductors…
Earth to Echo (2014): Dir. Dave Green
Feat. Teo Halm; A group of kids band together to help a stranded alien make its way back to its home planet in this spirited homage to E.T. and the stargazing family…
Edge of Tomorrow (2014): Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson…; Tom Cruise plays a reluctant futuristic solider who gets caught in a time loop and is forced to repeat his death on the battlefield until victory…
Monsters: Dark Continent (2014): Dir. Tom Green
Feat. Johnny Harris, Joe Dempsie, Sam Keeley; Sequel to MONSTERS takes place ten years after the events of the first film, and the 'Infected Zones' have now spread worldwide. In the Middle East a…
Parasyte: Part One (2014): Dir. Takashi Yamazaki
Feat. Shota Sometani, Eri Fukatsu, Ai Hashimoto…; Based on a long running Manga, this horror–comedy offers up Cronenbergian thrills in a world under attack from parasitic worm–like…
Purge, The: Anarchy (Purge 2) (2014): Dir. James DeMonaco
Feat. Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford…; Visceral sequel follows the plight of three different groups of people as they try to survive another 'Purge'.
25th Reich, The (2013): Dir. Stephen Amis
Feat. Jim Knobeloch, Serge De Nardo; Aussie B–movie genre tribute featuring giant Nazi robot spiders, giant mosquitoes, spaceships, etc. The plot involves five American GIs…
Purge, The (2013): Dir. James DeMonaco
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey; In the near future, the moral fibre of a family is tested when their house is invaded by a stranger on the night of the 'purge', an annual…
Battleship (2012): Dir. Peter Berg
Feat. Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna …; The might of the US Navy take on marauding alien invaders in this belly–flop of a Hollywood blockbuster, apparently based on the popular Hasbro…
In Their Skin (Replicas) (2012): Dir. Jeremy Power Regimbal
Feat. Selma Blair, Joshua Close, James D'Arcy…; A middle class family welcome a neighboring family into their house, only for their guests to take them hostage in an attempt to steal their…
Men in Black 3 (2012): Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin…; Will Smith and co. return to inspired form for this third installment of the popular sci–fi comedy about a black–suited government agency…
Red Dawn (2012): Dir. Dan Bradley
Feat. Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson…; Jingoistic, on–the–nose remake of the '80s Cold War classic recruits a new band of teen heartthrobs to defend America from imminent…
Watch, The (2012): Dir. Akiva Schaffer
Feat. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill…; Four suburban blockheads form a neighbour watch group when they discover an alien invasion is upon them in this ballsy buddy comedy with a…
Attack the Block (2011): Dir. Joe Cornish
Feat. Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail…; A gang of teenage delinquents rally to defend their tower block from alien invaders in this quick–witted urban sci–fi comedy that…
Battle: Los Angeles (2011): Dir. Jonathan Liebesman
Feat. Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan…; Noisy, militaristic sci–fi follows a platoon of Marines as they attempt to combat an alien invasion. Film's sole novelty is its marriage of…
Darkest Hour, The (2011): Dir. Chris Gorak
Feat. Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella…; Five young adults find themselves stranded in Moscow on the eve of a global alien invasion in this hokey sci–fi thriller produced by Timur…
Falling Skies (TV Series) (2011): Feat. Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Will Patton; The battle for earth between alien invaders and the human resistance is given an exciting, family–focused rendition by producer Steven…
Thing, The (2011): Dir. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Feat. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen…; A fairly perfunctory, though by no means terrible prequel to John Carpenter's sci–fi classic, centred on a young paleontologist (Winstead)…
Trespass (2011): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Ben Mendelsohn…; A bloated Nic Cage cashes in yet another paycheck in this hysterically straight–faced thriller from serial hack Joel Schumacher. Sympathy is…
Whisperer in Darkness, The (2011): Dir. Sean Branney
Feat. Matt Foyer, Barry Lynch, Autumn Wendel; A fittingly old–fashioned homage to the 30s Universal horror by way of H.P. Lovecraft's story of an extraterrestrial folklore. This…
Monsters (2010): Dir. Gareth Edwards
Feat. Whitney Able, Scoot McNairy; Hailed as "this year's DISTRICT 9", this is another enterprising alien invasion film that similarly belies its independent budget (and spirit) with…
Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010): Dir. Stuart Beattie
Feat. Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Lincoln Lewis…; John Marsden's enduring 'Tomorrow' series of novels for young adults receives its first big screen treatment in this story of foreign (Asian!)…
Aliens in the Attic (2009): Dir. John Schultz
Feat. Ashley Tisdale, Carter Jenkins, Austin Robert Butler; Trifling family comedy about a group of kids who must fight off an alien invasion in their home while keeping the battle a secret from their parents.…
Day of the Triffids (TV Mini-Series) (2009): Dir. Nick Copus
Feat. Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Eddie Izzard…; This second–stab by the BBC excitingly updates John Wyndham's cautionary sci–fi novel with a big budget and spectacular special effects.…
District 9 (2009): Dir. Neill Blomkamp
Feat. Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James; Superb sci–fi blockbuster from first–time writer/director Blomkamp, set in an alternate–reality Johannesburg where an…
Monsters vs Aliens (2009): Dir. Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon; Rollicking animated flick in which Reese Witherspoon's "50 Ft. Woman" leads a rag–tag group of 'B–movie' monsters kept secret by the…
Under the Mountain (2009): Dir. Jonathan King
Feat. Tom Cameron, Sophie McBride, Sam Neill…; The special effects are right up to spec, and it's a step up for the director of BLACK SHEEP, but in souping up its source material for a teenage…
V (TV Series) (2009): Feat. Elizabeth Mitchell, Scott Wolf, Morris Chestnut…; Alien invaders claiming to 'come in peace' battle a tenacious human resistance in this 21st century update of the cult 80s sci–fi…
CJ7 (Cheung Gong 7 hou) (2008): Dir. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao); Hong Kong superstar Stephen Chow turns his directing talents to the family–friendly fantasy, playing a dirt–poor father who surprises his…
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (2008): Dir. Scott Derrickson
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith…; Rather vague, king–sized remake of the 1951 sci–fi classic, in which an alien visitor brings to earth a warning of imminent…
Meet Dave (2008): Feat. Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks; Passable sci–fi comedy starring Eddie Murphy as an alien captain / spaceship disguised as a man in order to hide the rest of his…
Splinter (2008): Dir. Toby Wilkins
Feat. Shea Whigham, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Wagner; Lean sci–fi thriller in which a couple and an escaped convict are trapped in a gas station by a deadly parasite intent on making their bodies…
Strangers, The (2008): Dir. Bryan Bertino
Feat. Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman; A home invasion horror orcestrated with rare tension and restraint, concerning a couple’s night of terror at the hands of three masked…
Invasion, The (2007): Dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig; Riddled with flaws, yet entertaining enough to sustain attention, the third remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS centres on a Washington D.C.…
Mist, The (2007): Dir. Frank Darabont
Feat. Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden; Unnerving horror adapted from a Stephen King short story about a mysterious mist which rolls into a small town in Maine, driving the townsfolk to…
Altered (2006): Dir. Eduardo Sanchez
Feat. James Gammon; A belated return to screen for the co–director of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, who works another resourceful and potentially nerve–racking…
Slither (2006): Dir. James Gunn
Feat. Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker; The small American town of Wheelsy is visited by a slithery space squid, which sends a variety of parasitic slugs out to invade the bodies of the…
War of the Worlds (2005): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto…; Dynamic and intense re–imagining of H.G. Wells sci–fi staple (for its first half at least), in which hostile aliens invade Earth in…
4400, The (TV Series) (2004): Feat. Joel Gretsch, Jacqueline McKenzie; An effectively puzzling sci–fi TV series which begins on a day when 4400 missing persons suddenly reappear on Earth, not a day older than when…
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004): Dir. Kerry Conran
Feat. Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie…; Ambitious futuristic 'boys own' adventure sets up a scenario in which giant robots are attacking Earth in a 1930s retro–futuristic world of…
Men in Black 2 (2002): Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Lara Flynn Boyle…; Recycling the characters, humour and premise of the first, this much–diluted sequel has Tommy Lee Jones lose his memory, giving Will Smith the…
Mercano the Martian (Mercano El Marciano) (2002): Dir. Juan Antin; Satirical Argentine animation about a Martian who crashes his flying saucer on Earth and thus stranded builds himself a virtual Mars on the internet.…
Returner (2002): Dir. Takashi Yamazaki
Feat. Takeshi Kaneshiro; Kitted out with a charismatic cast, CGI–action that delivers, and tongue–lightly–in–cheek, this slick, big–budget…
Signs (2002): Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, M. Night Shyamalan…; Trading on a promise to explore the mysterious crop–circle phenomenon, the third supernatural blockbuster from M. Night Shyamalan instead…
Evolution (2001): Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Julianne Moore…; An attempt to replicate the jokey sci–fi formula of MEN IN BLACK by the same producers, has alien bacteria riding a meteor and crashing on…
Jimmy Neutron - Boy Genius (2001): Dir. John A Davis; Sophisticated animated feature from Nickelodeon TV is a mite hyperactive but is breathtaking in design and has a captivating story that will…
K-Pax (2001): Dir. Iain Softley
Feat. Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges; Acting like RAINMAN–from–outer–space, Kevin Spacey has a hard job convincing Dr Jeff Bridges he’s not a lunatic, but instead…
Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, The (2001): Dir. Larry Blamire
Feat. Fay Masterson, Andrew Parks, Larry Blamire; A dead–on Z–grade movie parody that replicates the wooden acting, dumb dialogue, sloppy editing and cheap props of 50's "creature…
Battlefield Earth (2000): Dir. Roger Christian
Feat. John Travolta, Forest Whitaker; Ludicrous though fun space–opera adapted from guru L. Ron Hubbard's book and a long–cherished project for Scientologist John Travolta.…
Astronaut's Wife, The (1999): Dir. Rand Ravich
Feat. Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron; In orbit, Astronaut Johnny Depp goes offline for several minutes; back on the ground wife Charlize Theron finds him subtly changed for the…
Faculty, The (1999): Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Jordana Brewster, Clea Duvall, Laura Harris…; The writer of SCREAM gives post–modern surgery to INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, setting it on a high–school campus, of…
Sphere (1998): Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson; Back in the ocean depths, a 300yr–old alien spacecraft lies silently waiting for the team to investigate. Michael Crichton's story unavoidably…
X-Files Movie, The (1998): Dir. Rob Bowman
Feat. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson; Following the STAR TREK model, the '90s TV phenomenon, featuring terminally–perturbed FBI agents Mulder and Scully, beams up onto the big…
Contact (1997): Dir. Robert Zemeckis
Feat. Jodie Foster, Jena Malone, Matthew McConaughey…; The E.T.s phone Earth in this lavish adaptation of Carl Sagan's novel, with scientists retrieving alien radio signals from Somewhere Out There. …
Men in Black (1997): Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino…; Far out effects, a slightly believable alien conspiracy plot and some savvy comic timing render this superior blockbuster fare. Will Smith and Tommy…
Arrival, The (1996): Dir. David Twohy
Feat. Charlie Sheen; Radio astronomer Charlie Sheen detects signs of intelligent life in outer space, and soon discovers hostile ET's, already intent on…
Doctor Who - The Movie [Paul McGann] (Dr. Who) (1996): Dir. Geoffrey Sax
Feat. Paul McGann, Eric Roberts; Paul McGann (WITHNAIL AND I) incarnates the Doctor in this feature–film revival, materialising in San Francisco on the eve of the millennium…
Independence Day (ID4) (1996): Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Will Smith; Absurdly mega–hyped sci–fi blockbuster revels in its own trashiness, but to its credit revives an old high–concept with (then)…
Mars Attacks! (1996): Dir. Tim Burton
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening…; Tim Burton once again turns tacky into an art form, but this time with a monster budget to match the alien carnage. This gleefully (though…
Third Rock From The Sun (TV Series) (3rd Rock From The Sun) (1996-2001): Feat. John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart…; A group of alien beings take up residence in a typical American sitcom world on suburban Earth – '3rd rock from the sun' – to study the…
Epsilon (1995): Dir. Rolf De Heer
Feat. Ullie Birve, Syd Brisbane; An ordinary bloke is confronted by a woman from another planet against a shifting backdrop of time and space... Filmed over a twelve month…
Species (1995): Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker…; Ben Kingsley rounds up 'experts' (Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker, Alfred Molina, Marg Helgenberger), a kind of A–Team of strange phenomena to…
Village of the Damned (1995): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley; Schlocky remake of the 60s horror, where women in a smalltown are inseminated by an alien entity. Luckily, the presence of lightweights Christopher…
Puppet Masters, The (1994): Dir. Stuart Orme
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner…; Sci–fi based on Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 novel of the same name, about an alien invasion in rural Iowa. When a mysterious spacecraft…
Roswell: The UFO Cover Up (Incident at Roswell) (1994): Dir. Jeremy Kagan
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Martin Sheen, Dwight Yoakam…; Credible dramatisation of events surrounding the world's most documented UFO sighting in New Mexico, 1947. Kyle MacLachlan plays the military officer…
Body Snatchers (1993): Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar; Director Ferrara adds visceral punch to the sci–fi staple about an alien life force that takes over human bodies in their sleep. The third…
Coneheads (1993): Dir. Steve Barron
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin; Slightly strained attempt at stretching a five–minute sketch idea with its one–note 'alien' novelty. Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin reprise…
Fire in the Sky (1993): Dir. Robert Lieberman
Feat. D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer; Allegedly true account of a lumberjack who claimed to suffer a horrific ordeal aboard an alien space craft. Maybe laughable to skeptics, but genre…
Split Second (1992): Dir. Tony Maylam
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall; It's 2008, and Rutger Hauer must use his devastating machismo to rid a flooded London of the ultimate alien killing machine.
Borrower, The (1991): Dir. John McNaughton
Feat. Rae Dawn Chong, Don Gordon, Tom Towles…; When Earth's atmosphere causes an alien's head to explode, he must 'borrow' the heads of others in order to survive. A comic turn from the director…
Suburban Commando (1991): Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. Hulk Hogan, Christopher Lloyd, Shelley Duvall…; Kids will love Hulk Hogan strutting his stuff as an inter–galactic crime fighter who crash lands in suburbia.
Timescape (1991): Dir. David Twohy
Feat. Jeff Daniels; Jeff Daniels sets about rescuing his town from catastrophe when he learns the secret of an alien tourist party on his front doorstep. Engaging…
Dark Angel (1990): Dir. Craig Baxley
Feat. Dolph Lundgren; Sci–Fi action. A cop with attitude discovers the vicious serial killer he is stalking is an alien life–form.
Meet the Applegates (1990): Dir. Michael Lehmann
Feat. Ed Jr. Begley, Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman; A wacky satire about a family of insects who assimilate into suburban America in order to blow up a nuclear power plant. As bent as it sounds, from…
Predator 2 (1990): Dir. Stephen Hopkins
Feat. Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Ruben Blades…; No Arnie this time, but the evil alien is back (he was cheaper) for another bout of human carnage. This time downtown Detroit gets the brunt of its…
Communion (1989): Dir. Phillipe Mora
Feat. Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse; Based on the ‘experiences’ of novelist Whitley Strieber, who claimed multiple abductions by aliens, this has Christopher Walken whisked away for…
Spaced Invaders (1989): Dir. Patrick Johnson
Feat. Douglas Barr, Royal Dano; Five bumbling, misguided aliens crashland on earth and cause havoc in a small–town, especially for the parents of their little human friends!
Alien Nation (1988): Dir. Graham Baker
Feat. James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp; Extra–terrestrials have now settled in suburban California – some are good, some bad, but all are ugly! A futuristic buddy–cop…
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988): Dir. Stephen Chiodo
Feat. Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson; Smalltown folk are harvested by blood–drinking alien clowns in this novelty horror confection. Has something of a reputation, but that doesn't…
Slugs (Slugs, Muerte Viscosa) (1988): Dir. Juan Piquer Simon
Feat. Michael Garfield, Kim Terry, Philip MacHale; Creature feature based on the UK horror novel of the same name by Shaun Hutson. A rural town is invaded by mutant killer slugs, spawned from…
They Live (1988): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Keith David, Meg Foster; Earth is invaded by aliens that offer materialism in exchange for human souls. One can only detect their presence through special glasses. Too often…
Friendship's Death (1987): Dir. Peter Woollen
Feat. Ruby Baker, Patrick Buchanan; Philosophical sci–fi film subverts genre conventions to instead deliver a delicate drama about a woman who alleges she is a robot sent to Earth…
Hidden, The (1987): Dir. Jack Sholder
Feat. Michael Nouri, Kyle MacLachlan; An alien lifeform uses innocent human bodies to rob banks, kill people and listen to heavy metal! An exciting and bizarre sci–fi actioner…
Predator (1987): Dir. John McTiernan
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers; Big Arnie leads a SWAT team into the South American jungle only to be confronted by a faceless, hostile alien life–form. Solid sci–fi…
Invaders from Mars (1986): Dir. Tobe Hooper
Feat. Karen Black, Louise Fletcher, Bud Cort; Madeover by Tobe 'Texas Chainsaw' Hooper, this version of 50s paranoia classic is patchy but above–average. Same basic story with an…
Cocoon (1985): Dir. Ron Howard
Feat. Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn…; Delightful fantasy about a group of elderly folk who find the fountain of youth in a swimming pool that has been adopted by alien visitors. A special…
Brother from Another Planet (1984): Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Joe Morton, Steve James, Bill Cobbs; Quirky comic fantasy from John Sayles about a mute alien negro who crash lands in New York and mixes with some earthbound home–boys in downtown…
Children Of The Dog Star (TV Mini-series) (1984): Feat. Sarah Dunn, Jason Wallace, Hamish Bartle…; Beloved New Zealand sci–fi series following 12–year–old Gretchen (Dunn) who discovers a link to an extra–extraterrestrial…
Chocky (TV Series) (1984): Dir. Vic Hughes, Christopher Hodson
Feat. Carol Drinkwater; One of the best sci–fi TV serials of the 1980s is set around a schoolboy who begins to develop supernormal talents. It seems an alien force has…
Starman (1984): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith…; Jeff Bridges plays an alien trying to recover his spaceship on Earth with the help of young widow Karen Allen. Entertaining fantasy–drama.
Liquid Sky (1983): Dir. Slava Tsukuman
Feat. Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard; A geniune punk artefact about an over–sexed woman who unwittingly hosts an alien parasite that kills off her lovers at the point of orgasm. Its…
V (TV Series) (1983): Dir. Kenneth Johnson
Feat. Robert Englund, Michael Ironside; Compelling sci–fi saga detailing the mass invasion of alien spacecraft whose inhabitants dubiously claim to have come in peace.
E.T. (E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial) (1982): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Dee Wallace Stone, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote…; Steven Spielberg cemented his genius with this, possibly the best live–action family film ever made. It's the moving tale of a benign alien who…
Thing, The (1982): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Richard Dysart…; Kurt Russell headlines this remake of the 1951 film about an Antarctic outpost terrorized by an alien organism. Dir. John Carpenter cranks up the…
Day of the Triffids (TV Mini-Series) (1981): Dir. Ken Hannam
Feat. John Duttine, Emma Relph, Maurice Colbourne; More convincing and clinical than previous adaptations of John Wyndham's novel, this BBC series depicts the blinding of Earth's human population and…
Inseminoid (Horror Planet) (1981): Dir. Norman J. Warren
Feat. Judy Geeson; An interplanetry archaelogical team unleash a female vampire (Geeson) into their spaceship, in this super–trashy ALIEN knockoff. Unconvincing…
Flash Gordon (1980): Dir. Michael Hodges
Feat. Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Topol…; Max Von Sydow's Ming the Merciless only has one thing in his way of universal domination – that blasted quarterback from the New York Jets!…
Visitor, The (Stridulum) (1979): Dir. Giulio Paradisi
Feat. Joanne Nail, Lance Henriksen, Paige Conner…; A young girl cursed with an inhuman, malevolent power is central to a cosmic battle between forces of good and evil in this ambitious and at times…
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978): Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy…; Accomplished and intelligent remake has a weird clinical atmosphere and provides a few more creepy twists to the pod invasion theme.
Mork and Mindy (TV Series) (1978-1982): Feat. Robin Williams, Pam Dawber; The wacky TV show that proved a breakthrough vehicle for Robin Williams, playing the cutesome, unpredictable Mork, an alien from the planet…
Quatermass (TV Mini Series) (1978): Dir. Piers Haggard
Feat. John Mills, Simon MacCorkindale; Sir John Mills gives a great late performances as the legendary 1950s hero Professor Quatermass in this TV mini–series conclusion to Nigel…
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Special Edition (1977): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut; Richard Dreyfuss embodies a working class lineman who is chosen by a higher power for some great purpose. With a head full of ambiguous images and…
Man Who Fell to Earth, The (1976): Dir. Nicolas Roeg
Feat. David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark…; David Bowie plays a humanoid trapped on Earth during a quest for water. Genuinely original and imaginative article is stamped with Nic Roeg's…
Invasion: UFO (1974): Dir. Gerry Anderson
Feat. Ed Bishop, Michael Billington, Gabrielle Drake; A feature film cleverly edited from several episodes of Gerry Anderson's UFO TV Series. Set in the year of 1980, S.H.A.D.O. (Supreme Headquarters…
Octaman (1971): Dir. Harry Essex
Feat. Pier Angeli, Kerwin Mathews, Jeff Morrow; Z–grade sci–fi, made in the 70s but with its heart in the 50s, which concerns a mutant octopus–like creature which descends upon…
U.F.O. (TV Series) (1969): Feat. Ed Bishop, Michael Billington, Gabrielle Drake; Supermarionator Gerry Anderson pulls the strings on this live–action sci–fi series, full of the same secret agencies, evil empires and…
Skammen (Shame) (1968): Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand; Bleak parable set against the back drop of a fictional war finds an apolitical couple aloofly living out their days on an island indulging in various…
Invaders, The (TV Series) (1967-1968): Feat. Roy Thinnes, Diane Baker, J.D. Cannon…; After a close encounter with an alien spacecraft, architect David Vincent (Roy Thinnes) tries to persuade a skeptical world that…
Night of the Big Heat (1967): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; An extreme heatwave blankets an English winter, the cause of which is neither natural nor human. Eerie and stylish sci–fi with Christopher Lee…
Quatermass and the Pit (1967): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley; Excellent update for the big–screen of the 50's cult TV serial harnesses a rich sense of intrigue through its perceptive script about an alien…
Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966): Dir. Gordon Flemyng
Feat. Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Ray Brooks; A mixed attempt to translate Doctor Who (Peter Cushing in this incarnation) to the big screen, with Daleks enslaving humans in a future,…
Ultraman (TV Series) (1966): When the world is threatened by aloien invaders and giant prehistoric monsters, There is only one agency equipped with the high tech weaponry to…
Eye Creatures, The (1965): Dir. Larry Buchanan
Feat. John Ashley; Remake of INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN is a laughable sci–fi shocker about creatures and the intrepid band that try to fight them off.
Children of the Damned (1964): Dir. Tony Leader
Feat. Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris…; Sequel to VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED finds the original film's blue–eyed humanoids transported to England for scientific study. Naturally, they…
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964): Dir. Nicholas Webster
Feat. Pia Zadora; Kidnapping Santa because their children have become obsessed with Christmas due to TV broadcasts from Earth, the Martians get more than they bargain…
Andromeda Anthology, The (TV Series) (A for Andromeda, Andromeda Breakthrough) (1961-1962): Dir. Michael Hayes, John Elliot, John Knight
Feat. Julie Christie, Susan Hampshire; Cold War parable within a British sci–fi skin, this chronicles the fight against an alien super–computer whose designers transmit…
My Favourite Martian (TV Series) (1960): Dir. Sheldon Leonard
Feat. Ray Walston, Bill Bixby; Affectionate 60's TV sitcom starring Ray Walston and Bill Bixby about a friendly alien who settles down in modern America. Season One: 37 episodes…
Village of the Damned (1960): Dir. Wolf Rilla
Feat. George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynn…; The original, superior version of John Wyndham's novel 'The Midwich Cuckoos', about a brood of malevolent blue–eyed kiddies born in an English…
Teenagers from Outer Space (the Gargon Terror) (1959): Dir. Tom Graeff
Feat. David Love, Dawn Bender, Bryan Grant; Perhaps the ropiest of the ‘TEENAGE…’ 50s drive–ins, with two aliens visiting Earth as teens, one ‘good’, the…
Astounding She-Monster, The (1958): Dir. Ronnie Ashcroft
Feat. Robert Clarke; Cheap drive–in fodder has a deadly female alien crash–land near the hideout of a band of kidnappers. Some fun to be had with the cheesy…
I Married a Monster From Outer Space (1958): Dir. Gene Fowler Jnr.
Feat. Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott; An exceptional, well–directed 1950's B–movie in which a race of monster–like aliens try to conquer Earth by taking over a…
Quatermass and the Pit (TV Series) (1958): Dir. Nigel Kneale
Feat. Andre Morell, Cec Linder, Anthony Bushell; The third in the landmark trilogy of serials involves Professor Quatermass in the excavation of an ancient alien–insect capsule in London, and…
Brain from Planet Arous (1957): Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller; Cheesy 'killer–B' in which a bad alien brain inhabits the body of a small–town scientist and a good alien brain that inhabits the body of…
Fiend Without a Face (1957): Dir. Arthur Crabtree
Feat. Marshall Thompson, Kim Parker; Noteworthy 'alien invader' thriller in which creatures resembling the human brain run amok in a small town. Macabre proceedings are resolved in a…
Invasion of the Saucermen (1957): Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Steve Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin…; This low budget sci–fi comedy has a reputation for being so bad it's good. Bulbous–headed aliens frame a teenager for drunk driving by…
Not of This Earth (1957): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Paul Birch, Beverly Garland; Another independent sci–fi from Roger Corman, this one tells the story of an extraterrestrial known as "Mr Johnson", who poses as a human while…
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956): Dir. Fred Sears
Feat. Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor; Animator Ray Harryhausen provides the fab effects for the familiar 50's alien invasion theme, making it a standout example of the genre.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956): Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates…; 50's sci–fi masterpiece about alien pods replicating and replacing American townspeople. Whether read as a Communist or McCarthyist parable, it…
Roger Corman Collection #2 (Creature from the Haunted Seas, It Conquered the World) (1956-1961): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, Beverly Garland…; A double–feature of Corman sci–fi 'quickies'. It Conquered the World (1956) – Van Cleef lures a malevolent alien from Venus to…
Quatermass II (TV Series) (1955): Dir. Rudolph Cartier
Feat. John Robinson; Professor Quatermass returns (this time palyed by John Robinson) in Nigel Kneale's popular sci–fi serial of the 1950s. The six–part…
Target Earth (1954): Dir. Sherman Rose
Feat. Richard Denning, Virginia Grey, Kathleen Crowley…; Invading alien robots trap people in an eerie deserted city. For all the 50s cliches this is mostly on–target.
This Island Earth (1954): Dir. Joseph Newman
Feat. Rex Reason, Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue; Seriously cool sci–fi adventure with startling production values enriching its B–movie spirit. Rex Reason plays a scientist unwittingly…
War of the Worlds, The (1954): Dir. Byron Haskin
Feat. Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne…; Atomic–age adaptation of H.G. Wells frightening novel about the Martian invasion is excitingly paced with special–effects that were then…
Invaders from Mars (1953): Dir. William Cameron Menzies
Feat. Jimmy Hunt, Helena Carter, Arthur Franz…; A young boy witnesses the landing and encroachment of hostile Martians. Paranoia allegory pre–dates the similarly–themed BODY SNATCHERS.
It Came from Outer Space (1953): Dir. Jack Arnold
Feat. Richard Carlson; A spaceship crash lands in the Arizona desert (where else?), causing friction between mild–mannered scientist Richard Carlson and the more…
Robot Monster (1953): Dir. Phil Tucker
Feat. George Barrows; Sharing the mantle with PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE as the "worst movie of all time", this lesser–known unpolished turd is just as bad, only…
Radar Men from the Moon (1952): Dir. Fred C. Brannon
Feat. George Wallace, Roy Barcroft, Aline Towne…; Cracking Republic serial has Commando Cody taking on the baddies – including future Lone Ranger Moore – armed with his trusty aluminum…
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal; The blueprint for excellence in fifties sci–fi, Michael Rennie plays Klaatu, a peace–seeking alien whose good intentions meet with…
Man From Planet X, The (1951): Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, William Schallert; As a mysterious planet hurls itself toward earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions. An…

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