First Wave: Red Scare Movies
Second Wave: Gods and Lost Children
Third Wave: Camp
Fourth Wave: Reaction to Second Wave
Fifth Wave: Post 9/11
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This book and original movie spawned a popular Tom Cruise remake.
What is War of the Worlds?
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A children's movie where the alien wanted to go home and a little boy tries to take him back on a bike. [Katy Perry also has a song with the same name.]
What is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)?
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A race of aliens comes to Earth to capture humans for food and to kill them for fun. The aliens play a lot of pranks and trick people into succumbing to their deaths.
What is Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)?
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This is an animated movie of a famous series by Michael Bay.
What is Transformers: The Movie (1986)?
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Originated from a comic book. Script was also influenced by Aztec myths. Archaeologists discover a pyramid in Antartica where Predators kill Aliens as a ritual.
What is Alien vs. Predator (2004)?
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This movie includes the famous quote, "Why don't they come out in the open?" and features aliens who crash on Earth and adopt human identities in order to gather the necessary supplies to escape.
What is It Came From Outer Space (1953)?
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After townspeople in Indiana have close encounters with UFOs, they band together to try to contact the alien intelligence.
What is Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)?
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A musical comedy that is based on a song from Julie Brown's 1984 mini-album Goddess in Progress. Three male aliens who are looking for a lady friend land in a woman's pool. The aliens bring trouble wherever they go.
What is Earth Girls are Easy (1988)?
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A remake of a Red Scare movie. The alien imitates and of the people he comes in contact with. More closely followed to book than the original. (Book called Who Goes There by John W. Campbell Jr.) Adapted into a comic book miniseries.
What is The Thing (1981)?
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Crop circles are discovered which lead to speculation that aliens are trying to contact Earth.
What is Signs (2002)?
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This movie is about aliens who come in their space crafts to take over Earth and ultimately decide against being in charge because, "Despite our power, the few of us would be busy indefinitely trying to suppress a large, hostile population. In the end, we would be masters of a wrecked and hungry planet.”
What is Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)?
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A British movie about an alien looking for a way to bring water back to his planet.
What is The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)?
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"Nada" discovers that the upperclass people of social media and in the government are actually aliens. They take over social media to send subliminal messages. Nada ends up trying to combat their debilitating influence.
What is They Live (1988)?
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Newcomers are discriminated when they try to assimilate with the human society.
What is Alien Nation (1988)?
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The plot was adapted from Alive in Joburg. Presented in a mock documentary format. Sick and malnourished E.T.s are discovered are confined to a reservations by the government.
What is District 9 (2009)?
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This movie features tongue-in-cheek dialogue about an alien from another land criticizing the weapons of humans.
What is The Thing From Another World (1951)?
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A woman hears signals coming from a star that launches a national investigation to build a contraption that the aliens have sent blueprints for.
What is Contact (1997)?
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Based on 60s trading cards and was an animated film that included human characters. The Martians land on Earth and are initially believed to be peaceful but they start to recklessly kill. Uses elements of black comedy and political satire, and a parody of sci-fi films. The Martians are killed by a song.
What is Mars Attacks (1996)?
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A military sci-fi disaster film about a plan to stage an attack on an alien race on July 4 who plan to annihilate Earth.
What is Independence Day (1996)?
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The city in which this movie takes place is included in the title. Cities are being barraged by meteors by alien invaders.
What is Battle: Los Angeles (2011)?
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This movie about an alien who lands in the United States named Klaatu.
What is The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)?
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An alien takes the form of a woman's deceased husband. They go on a road trip to Arizona where he has planned to meet his kind to return home.
What is Starman (1984)?
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Aliens who are emotionless and reproduce by cloning conspire to take over Earth. They send an operative to impregnante a human, but his humming penis may make people wonder what or where he is from.
What is What Planet are You From (2000)?
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Remake of a famous Red Scare Movie. Invaders of a town in California take over human lives by cloning them physically, but the droids don't have emotion. A health inspector and his friend discover this and go on a hunt to figure out what is really going on.
What is Invasion of the Body Snatcher (1978)?
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A group of friends try to escape an alien invasion. The setting is Los Angeles. Cities all over the world have been invaded.
What is Skyline (2010)?
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