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Category Archives: Aliens

Movies featuring creatures from other planets.

May 7th, 2013: Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster

Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Cops, Crime, Dinosaurs, Disaster, Event Film, Giant Insects, Hit Man, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Superheroes Tagged airplane, Akihiko Hirata, Akiko Wakabayashi, Akira Ifukube, alien possession, alien warning, assassin, assassination attempt, Bad Dubbing, Cassandra, cops, Eiji Tsuburaya, Emi Ito, fishermen, Ghidorah, Godzilla, hanging from a cliff, Hiroshi Koizumi, Japan, Kenji Sahara, lady reporter, model airplane, Mothra, mountains, music summons the monster, plane crash, power outage, princess, prophecy, quotably bad dialogue, reporter, Rodan, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, shock treatment, Takashi Shimura, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, TV show, Yosuke Natsuki, Yumi Ito, Yuriko Hoshi

March 29th, 2013: The Green Slime

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Blobs, Disaster, Event Film, Horror, Last Stand, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged any part of the monster becomes another monster, asteroid, Australia, Bill Finger, co-production, Drive-In, fast reproducing monsters, goofy monster suit, Japan, Kinji Fukasaku, Luciana Paluzzi, MGM, models, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Dunham, scientists, space exploration, space station, the declining years, Toei Company

March 3rd, 2013: Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla aka Godzilla vs. The Cosmic Monster aka Godzilla vs. The Bionic Monster

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Event Film, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Robots, Sci-Fi, Sequel, The Original, War with Aliens Tagged Akihiko Hirata, Anguirus, archaeological dig, archaeologist, doppelganger, Drive-In, fakeitonium, globe trotting, Godzilla, Interpol, Japan, Jun Fukuda, Kenji Sahara, killer robots, King Seesar, King Shisa, Masaru Sato, Mechagodzilla, music summons the monster, musical interlude, Okinawa, prophecy, psychic, rip-off, scientists, space titanium, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka

January 31st, 2013: Invisible Invaders (1959)

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Black and White, Disaster, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, War with Aliens, Zombies Tagged Air Force, alien ultimatum, aliens against the bomb, aliens possessing the dead, bad narration, bunker, Drive-In, Edward L. Cahn, intelligent zombies, John Agar, John Carradine, low-budget, narration, philip tonge, radiation, Robert E. Kent Productions, robert hutton, scientists, sound as weapon, stock footage, tool using zombies

December 10th, 2012: Supersonic Man (1979)

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, Superheroes Tagged alien superhero, bad special effects, Cameron Mitchell, cash-in, father, Juan Piquer Simón, killer robots, lady reporter, low-budget, mastermind, reporter, rip-off, scientists, Spain

December 5th, 2012: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi Tagged Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominee, Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special Grammy, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography, Best Director Nominee, Best Effects, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Instrumental Composition Grammy, Best Music Original Score Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, Francois Truffaut, John Williams, Josef Sommer, Lance Henriksen, Melinda Dillon, Richard Dreyfuss, Roberts Blossom, Steven Spielberg, Teri Garry, Visual Effects Nominee

December 4th, 2012: Mars Attacks! (1996)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Aliens, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Screwball, War with Aliens Tagged Annette Bening, Barbet Schroeder, Brandon Hammond, Brian Haley, Christina Applegate, Danny DeVito, Danny Elfman, Frank Welker, Glenn Close, Jack Black, Jack Nicholson, Janice Rivera, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jim Brown, Joe Don Baker, Jonathan Gems, Lisa Marie, Lukas Haas, Martin Short, Michael J. Fox, Natalie Portman, O-Lan Jones, Pam Grier, Paul Winfield, Pierce Brosnan, Ray J, Rod Steiger, Sarah Jessica Parker, Saturn Award - Best Music, Sylvia Sidney, Tim Burton, Tom Jones

Aelita aka Aelita: Queen of Mars

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8 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Aliens, Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Event Film, Fantasy, Issue Film, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Sci-Fi, Silent, Space Travel Tagged aliens as monarchist allegory, aristocracy, Communism, engineers, king, Mars, Queen, revolution, Soviet, Soviet Union, Soviets, space exploration, workers

November 5th, 2012: Attack the Block (2011)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Aliens, Comedy, Crime, Holiday, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi Tagged Alex Esmail, Basement Jaxx, Franz Drameh, Jodie Whittaker, Joe Cornish, John Boyega, Jumayn Hunter, Leeon Jones, Luke Treadaway, Nick Frost, Simon Howard

October 30th, 2012: The War of the Worlds (1953)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Aliens, Based on a Book, Based on a Radio Show, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original, War with Aliens Tagged "germs kill the monster", Air Force, Ann Robinson, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Sound Recording Nominee, Best Special Effects, Byron Haskins, Cecil B. DeMille, Cedrick Hardwicke, force field, Gene Barry, George Pal, H.G. Wells, Les Treymane, Mars, Martians, mob, nuclear weapons, Paramount Pictures, Paul Frees, riot, scientists, square dance, stock footage, U.S. Army

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