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Invaders from Mars is a 1953 American independent science fiction film directed by William Cameron Menzies and starring Jimmy Hunt, Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Morris Ankrum, Leif Erickson, and Hillary Brooke.
Invaders from Mars: Directed by William Cameron Menzies. With Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson. A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.
Jul 29, 2022 · In short, Invaders From Mars 1953 is an influential classic with many cheesy aspects yet containing enough intrigue, creepiness and other desirable including its atmospheric soundtrack to make it worth a screening.
Sep 17, 2022 · Sci fi treat from 1953. One night, young David McLean sees a spaceship crash into a nearby sandpit. His father goes to investigate but comes back changed. Where once he was cheerful and affectionate, he's now sullen and rude. Others fall into the sandpit and begin acting like him: cold, ill-tempered and conspiratorial.
A young boy (Jimmy Hunt) awakens during a storm to witness a flying saucer land in a field behind his house. This image haunted many a child who saw Invaders From Mars (1953) at an impressionable age. Yet, the film still holds up today as a haunting, dreamlike fantasy, one that shares similarities with the movies of Jean Cocteau and David Lynch.
A schlock classic! One night, young David sees a spaceship crash nearby. When his father investigates but comes back changed, David realizes aliens are taking over humans and joins forces with a doctor and an astronomer to stop them. 402 IMDb 6.2 1 h 18 min 1953. X-Ray NR. Horror · Science Fiction. Free trial of MIDNIGHT PULP.
Small and cheap, but brilliantly and boldly helmed by William Cameron Menzies -- the production designer of Gone With the Wind -- "Invaders from Mars" had enough of a timeless paranoiac jolt to be remade, albeit poorly, by Tobe Hooper in the 1980s.
