Steven Spielberg returns to alien storytelling with Disclosure Day, a global thriller exploring what happens when humanity learns we are not alone.
It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...
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 ...
Discover why Independence Day remains the gold standard for alien invasion movies, 30 years later. No other film captures the scale, excitement, and global crisis like this classic!
Some Spanish audiences thought clever ads for the sci-fi blockbuster Independence Day were news reports of an actual alien ...
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Most alien invasions make no sense

Alien invasions are a staple of fiction, but many of the reasons given for attacking Earth fall apart under basic scrutiny. A ...
A violent, almost demonic alien race called the Furies first appeared in a series of Star Trek crossover novels published in 1996. Titled Star Trek: Invasion!, these four novels spanned the 23rd and ...
Often remade, often imitated, 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' 70 this month, touched a nerve. Here's why ...