Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

Hell yeah! This is more like it. After months of going through cheesy 50's B movies, most of which I enjoyed to a degree, I finally found one that hit a home run. "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" is a spectacular, fast-paced Sci-Fi invasion flick that's pure pulp goodness.…

🎃 Ben Hibburd 🎃

This would be a much lesser B movie if it wasn't for Ray Harryhousen's excellent special effects work. 🛸♥️ Earns half a star extra for the final 15 minutes.

Lou (doesn't rhyme with booh! 👻)

Scene one… the flying saucer lands at some rocket base and aliens get out, then the human army (three guys) opens fire and pisses off the aliens who then blows up the three army guys as well as some buildings on base. Stupid human army. How about someone just go over there…

Nilknarf

A pretty by the books 1950s science fiction piece made all the more watchable because of the genius that is Ray Harryhausen. His effects work still looks great to this day and undoubtedly influenced the next generation of disaster films, Independence Day in particular. If I…

Jesse

I’ve seen this SO many times I almost know every scene (I’m not bright enough to know every line. I’m still singing old songs with what I believe are the right lyrics despite being constantly corrected). In my first 2022 viewing of this I have two takeaways: 1) How…

Digital Press

Sci-Fi September # 47 One of my favourite Ray Harryhausen films. Earth vs the Flying Saucers is fairly basic in plot - it's basically an alien invasion in which flying saucers take over the worlds famous landmarks (A technique the Cybermen would adopt in Doctor Who) and…

Demdike

While driving through the desert to a military base, Dr. Russell A. Marvin and his wife, Carol, see a flying saucer. Russell a scientist and Carol is his assistant. Together they are overseeing Operation Sky Hook, a project investigating activity in Earth’s atmosphere. Once…

mike5577

🛸Aliens Interrupted the Honeymoon - You'd better do as they say.🔬Well, the movie is definitely worth watching once. As a fan of the sci-fi genre, I was interested in seeing how early works of the genre looked at the time. You know, if they had just improved the visuals…

☔️Voorhees Cloud🍂

backmasked alien messages inside your diaries, your tapes, an electromagnetic etching inscribed onto the vinyl of creation itself -- notice how the most effective attack they have is to weaponize the sun, heating-up the earth's core and causing natural disasters on the…

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