Category: Movies → Invaders from Mars (1953) DVDRip

A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.

User Rating:6.4/10 1,901 votes
Director:William Cameron Menzies
Writers:John Tucker Battle (story), Richard Blake (writer)
Genre:Horror | Sci-Fi
Awards:1 nomination

Cast
Helena Carter ... Dr. Pat Blake, MD
Arthur Franz ... Dr. Kelston - astronomer / Narrator
Jimmy Hunt ... David Maclean - boy astronomer
Leif Erickson ... Mr. George MacLean
Hillary Brooke ... Mrs. Mary MacLean
Morris Ankrum ... Col. Fielding
Max Wagner ... Sgt. Rinaldi
Milburn Stone ... Capt. Roth - army technician
Janine Perreau ... Kathy Wilson

Runtime:78 min | UK:83 min
Country:USA
Language:English

A child astronomer searches the skies with his father. Later the child astronomer wakes to the sound of a flying saucer landing in a sand pit across from his home. The child's father investigates, and returns "transformed." Soon father and mother both seem affected. Child, accompanied by his fetching teacher visits his astronomer friend, whom talks unashamedly about "invaders from Mars."

Within this deceptively simple plotline is a surrealistic masterpiece. With stunning use of color, forced perspective, oversized sets, eerie dreamlike music and carefully mannered performances and plotting, director William Cameron Menzies (an Oscar-winning art director) displays the nightmarish incidents from a child's perspective. Even the typically 50s ending takes on a different perspective. Was it a dream? Was it a foreshadowing of the future? Or is it a recurring nightmare, in a mind gone hopelessly mad.

Only since this film have widespread reports of alien "abductions" and "alien implants" become a reality. Coincidence?

INVADERS FROM MARS is one of the great fantasy sci-fi films of all time.