Aliens - Terror from Another World
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The Thing from Another World (1951)
Directors: Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks
Writers: Charles Lederer (screenplay), John W. Campbell Jr. (based on the story "Who Goes There?")
Stars: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness
Story: Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
Other Films In Series: The Thing (1982), The Thing (2011)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Directors: Robert Wise
Writers: Edmund H. North (screenplay), Harry Bates (original story)
Stars: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe
Story: An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
Other Films In Series: The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
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The War of the Worlds (1953)
Directors: Byron Haskin
Writers: H.G. Wells (novel), Barré Lyndon (screenplay)
Stars: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne
Story: A small town in California is attacked by Martians, in this adaptation of the classic H. G. Wells novel.
Other Films In Series: War of the Worlds (2005)
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This Island Earth (1955)
Directors: Joseph M. Newman
Writers: Raymond F. Jones (story "The Alien Machine"), Franklin Coen (screenplay)
Stars: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason
Story: Aliens come to Earth seeking scientists to help them in their war.
Other Films In Series: None.
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The Blob (1958)
Directors: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Russell S. Doughten Jr.
Writers: Theodore Simonson, Kay Linaker
Stars: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe
Story: An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
Other Films In Series: Beware! The Blob (1972), The Blob (1988)
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr
Story: Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO.
Other Films In Series: None.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Directors: Philip Kaufman
Writers: W.D. Richter (screenplay), Jack Finney (novel)
Stars: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum
Story: In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion.
Other Films In Series: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Body Snatchers (1993), The Invasion (2007)
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Alien (1979)
Directors: Ridley Scott
Writers: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett
Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt
Story: The terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a desolate planet, and discovers a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind.
Other Films In Series: Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), Alien: Resurrection (1997), Alien vs. Predator (2004), Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), Prometheus (2012), Alien: Covenant (2017), Alien: Romulus (2024)
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Phantasm (1979)
Directors: Don Coscarelli
Writers: Don Coscarelli
Stars: A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister
Story: A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a lethal arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
Other Films In Series: Phantasm II (1988), Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994), Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998). Phantasm: Ravager (2016)
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The Thing (1982)
Directors: John Carpenter
Writers: Bill Lancaster (screenplay), John W. Campbell Jr. (story)
Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David
Story: An American Research Base is greeted by an alien force, that can assimilate anything it touches. It's up to the members to stay alive, and be sure of who is human, and who has become one of the Things.
Other Films In Series: The Thing from Another World (1951), The Thing (2011)
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Critters (1986)
Directors: Stephen Herek
Writers: Domonic Muir (story), Domonic Muir (screenplay)
Stars: Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush
Story: A race of small, furry aliens make lunch out of the locals in a farming town.
Other Films In Series: Critters 2: The Main Course (1988), Critters 3 (1991), Critters 4 (1992), Critters Attack! (2019)
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Invaders from Mars (1986)
Directors: Tobe Hooper
Writers: Richard Blake, Dan O'Bannon
Stars: Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms
Story: A boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Night of the Creeps (1986)
Directors: Fred Dekker
Writers: Fred Dekker
Stars: Jason Lively, Tom Atkins, Steve Marshall
Story: Alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their hosts into killer zombies. A group of teenagers is all that stands in their way.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Predator (1987)
Directors: John McTiernan
Writers: Jim Thomas, John Thomas
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall
Story: A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Other Films In Series: Predator 2 (1990), Alien vs. Predator (2004), Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), Predators (2010), The Predator (2018), Prey (2022)
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They Live (1988)
Directors: John Carpenter
Writers: Ray Nelson (short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning"), John Carpenter (screenplay)
Stars: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster
Story: A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Fire in the Sky (1993)
Directors: Robert Lieberman
Writers: Travis Walton (novel), Tracy Tormé (screenplay)
Stars: D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer
Story: An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975.
Other Films In Series: None.
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The Tommyknockers (1993)
Directors: John Power
Writers: Stephen King (novel), Lawrence D. Cohen (screenplay)
Stars: Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, John Ashton
Story: The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can discover the secret of the Tommyknockers.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Species (1995)
Directors: Roger Donaldson
Writers: Dennis Feldman
Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, Ben Kingsley
Story: A group of scientists try to track down and trap a killer alien seductress before she successfully mates with a human.
Other Films In Series: Species II (1998), Species III (2004), Species: The Awakening (2007)
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The Arrival (1996)
Directors: David Twohy
Writers: David Twohy
Stars: Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff
Story: Zane, an astronomer, discovers intelligent alien life. But the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop Zane from learning it.
Other Films In Series: Arrival II: The Second Arrival (1998)
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Starship Troopers (1997)
Directors: Paul Verhoeven
Writers: Robert A. Heinlein (novel), Edward Neumeier (screenplay)
Stars: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer
Story: Humans in a fascist, militaristic future wage war with giant alien bugs in a satire of modern world politics.
Other Films In Series: Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004), Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008), Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012), Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars (2017)
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The Faculty (1998)
Directors: Robert Rodriguez
Writers: David Wechter, Bruce Kimmel
Stars: Clea DuVall, Josh Hartnett, Salma Hayek, Famke Janssen, Robert Patrick, Elijah Wood, Jon Stewart
Story: Students suspect that their teachers are aliens after some bizarre occurrences. They may be right!
Other Films In Series: None.
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Virus (1999)
Directors: John Bruno
Writers: Chuck Pfarrer (creator of Comic Book), Chuck Pfarrer (screenplay)
Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin
Story: When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Pitch Black (2000)
Directors: David Twohy
Writers: Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat
Stars: Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Vin Diesel
Story: A commercial transport ship and its crew are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that only come out to feast at night. But then, they learn that a month-long eclipse is about to occur.
Other Films In Series: The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Riddick (2013)
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Signs (2002)
Directors: M. Night Shyamalan
Writers: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin
Story: A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Dreamcatcher (2003)
Directors: Lawrence Kasdan
Writers: Stephen King (novel), William Goldman (screenplay)
Stars: Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis
Story: Friends on a camping trip discover that the town they're vacationing in is being plagued in an unusual fashion by parasitic aliens from outer space.
Other Films In Series: None,
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Slither (2006)
Directors: James Gunn
Writers: James Gunn
Stars: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker
Story: A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Attack the Block (2011)
Directors: Joe Cornish
Writers: Joe Cornish
Stars: John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail
Story: A teen gang in South London defends their block from an alien invasion.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Super 8 (2011)
Directors: J.J. Abrams
Writers: J.J. Abrams
Stars: Elle Fanning, AJ Michalka, Kyle Chandler
Story: During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Dark Skies (2013)
Directors: Scott Stewart
Writers: Scott Stewart
Stars: Keri Russell, Jake Brennan, Josh Hamilton
Story: As the Barret family's peaceful suburban life is rocked by an escalating series of disturbing events, they come to learn that a terrifying and deadly force is after them.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Europa Report (2013)
Directors: Sebastián Cordero
Writers: Philip Gelatt
Stars: Sharlto Copley, Michael Nyqvist, Christian Camargo
Story: An international crew of astronauts undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter's fourth largest moon.
Other Films In Series: None.
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Life (2017)
Directors: Daniel Espinosa
Writers: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds
Story: A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on Earth.
Other Films In Series: None.
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