Invaders from Mars (1953)

75 Really impressive restoration work from Ignite Films for this 50s paranoid sci-fi classic. A movie that I thought was left for dead in the public domain is now rejuvenated in all its SuperCinecolor glory. Director William Cameron Menzies, also considered a Hollywood…

SilentDawn

If I were a small boomer child who saw this in 1953 or shortly afterwards? I probably would've been scared. This idea of martians turning your parents into pod people? Scary. This contains nifty low-budget set design and a couple of images that will be remembered for as…

Will Sloan

Very bizarre, intensely colorful pre-Body Snatchers paranoid sci-fi with some of the craziest production design I've ever seen in an attempt I think to sell this as a story from the POV of an innocent child who can see the unreal seams of the scary, violent world of…

Josh Lewis

Man, these Martian Teletubbies sure have the coolest ray guns! 🪨💥⚡🎺👽 William Cameron Menzies’ (Things to Come) original is much better than Tobe Hooper's remake in my opinion.

Lou (rhymes with wow!)

"Invaders from Mars" is a 1953 science fiction effort from William Cameron Menzies. Working consistently in production design and the arena of special effects within the dawn of films origin dating back to the late 1910s, Menzies eventually came into his own with…

Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti"

A young boy, David MacLean (Jimmy Hunt), witnesses a spaceship land in his backyard. He tells his father (Leif Erickson) about it and he goes to investigate, but comes back “different”. Soon most of the adults in town are all acting strangely. It seems martians are…

mike5577

Notable for being the first alien invasion film to be filmed in color, specifically Cinecolor, Invaders from Mars is the Silver Bullet of extraterrestrial invasion films.  When no one believes a young boy that he saw a flying saucer, it’s up to him to avoid the adults that…

Jesse

"Invaders from Mars" is a 50's Cold War era-infused Sci-Fi story about invading Martians. In this film, the Martians land close to a farmstead, and the only witness is a young boy named David. When he wakes the next day, he notices that his father has a wound on his neck…

Ben Hibburd

2nd William Cameron Menzies (after Things to Come, followed by The Maze) I've read "The Shape of Things to Come," the only biography of Menzies, multiple times. He was a man with an incredible eye for line and shade and a technical genius for translating that to life (he…

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