We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ever since H.G. Wells released "War of the Worlds" in 1898, popular culture has been fascinated by alien invasion stories. For over a century, ...

The spaceship in "District 9" is pictured. - Sony Pictures Releasing It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that ...

Invaders from Mars, starring Western actor Leif Erickson, is a somewhat forgotten 1950s alien invasion flick worth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The alien mothership makes contact with Earth in this scene from ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind.’ Columbia Pictures Amy Adams attempts to communicate with a cephalopod-like, seven-limbed alien ...

It didn’t take long for stories about extraterrestrials to reach our cinemas. George Méliès “A Trip to the Moon” introduced weird, easily explodable aliens called Selenites that capture the first ...