Movies about disasters—natural or human-made—have been produced since the earliest days of film. As early as 1916, a disaster with an extraterrestrial cause was touted in The End of the World, a ...

What if first contact wasn’t peaceful? What if the invaders were already among us? That’s the unsettling thrill that alien invasion films thrive on—tapping into the primal fear that something smarter, ...

The alien invasion movie is a time-honoured genre classic, spanning sci-fi, horror, drama, and even romance. While in its early years, the invasion movie reflected pop culture’s most prevalent images ...