One of the very first narrative films, Georges Méliès's "A Trip to the Moon," is about aliens. Sure, everyone remembers that shot of a rocket ship crashing into the eye of the man in the moon, but as ...

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 ...

The 1950s were an intriguing era for horror cinema, reflecting the anxieties of a post-war world and the dawn of the atomic age. Films of this decade often explored themes of invasion, mutation, ...