Aliens have been a subject of films for over a century, and they’ve grown into a beloved and oft-revisited trope in cinema during that time. Envisioned and executed by some of the greatest filmmakers ...

Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...

The alien invasion storyline is one of the classic and most reliable premises in sci-fi history. It's an easy way to introduce a potential threat to humanity and explore the idea of confronting the ...

On the highly unlikely but equally mind-blowing instance in which aliens really do come down to our shiny blue planet to see what's what, perhaps it might not be wise for world leaders to be the first ...

The 1970s were a golden age for cinema of the extraterrestrial variety. Ridley Scott's "Alien" turned the Xenomorph loose on a spaceship, while George Lucas' "Star Wars" introduced us to Wookies and ...

The "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" movies are among the best alien invasion stories told on the screen. There are currently four adaptations of Jack Finney's influential novel, with the 1978 version ...

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