Subgenre Sampler
Science Fiction > Invaders: 110 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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.
- 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…