Invaders From Mars

[swjen99]

I loved this movie! The quality was poor but the sand pit music was soooo creepy! I did see it on the B&W TV at age 8 or 9. Had to check out my parents necks for weeks, especially if they were grumpy. The camera angles in the police station were awesome. If you rate a movie on how it effects you... it was a 10+ for me. The 80's remake was terrible.... Would love to see what Steven Spielberg could do with this...

[deplorablecunt]

could you explain the kafka reference for me?

[cutesymeg]

FINALLY! in second grade my teacher made us watch this movie. it terrified me 2 death! i have been trying to put a name to the movie for 12 years! FINALLY!

[Jd81c88]

ha ha , he slap the shit outta that kid. I've never seen this b4.Will try and search on netflix. Me luva guud mooovieh.. ha haaaaa... uuhahahhaauoaa LOL

[hypno45]

Gee Wizz!!

Been a while since I saw this classic, great stuff.

[Daniel4646]

Yeah, yeah, the Cold War paranoia at that time ...

[bindinglines]

It has been pointed out that many cases of mistaken abduction claims have

been attributed to this movie (adults recalling memories).

[stevie467]

Love the clip at around 1.05 when the boy and woman fall down out of shot

[flapdoodle64]

Still better than 'V'.

[melshorse]

William Cameron Menzies was a greatl

film maker.

[ploot2345]

at 0:33 lmao owned and this movie must have been old! xD just listen to the kid "Ge whiz!!" lmao

[galinneall]

I love the caption at 1:22 - "UNUSUAL!". Indeed. Invaders from Mars are highly irregular; rare as hens' teeth, they are.

[jmappelleaudrey]

One of my favourite scifi flicks of all time! I loved the darty eyed alien in the jar. Also the over the top performances.

"gee whiz!"

"MOM! DAD!" haha

[RustedRotor204]

The eerie choral  music in this movie always makes my skin crawl. Mort Glickman did the music with a 16 person choir, and added some echo effects for an other worldly effect. I'd bet money that Tim Burton has been influenced by this film. It's been years since I've seen this movie and I'm still enthralled by it.

[kitsch2spacea]

"Father turned against son" The funniest child beating this side of communism lol

[inspaceinyourface]

so i just recently found out i have this channel called "MonstersHD"; horror movies 24/7. must have been heaven sent is what i thought! anyways i was checking what movies were scheduled for tonight, when i saw the description for Invaders From Mars scheduled to play at 4am i was like nooo wayyy! the movie info fit the exact description of a movie i remember seeing when i was no more than 6 or 7yrs old. its sad i wont be up to see it, but man that movie changed my little 6yr old life, for real

[IconMatthew1]

oh man my dad and I watched that last night so so terrible!

[IVIONKEYNUTZ]

Why! hahahahahah

[mareslrn]

This is the best sci fi movie ever.

[XMIR10B]

Yes, I recall the 1st time I saw it. On TV at 4am Easter Sunday when I was 6 years old. Bye the way, the narrator of this clip is the same person who voiced the Robot in the 60's Lost in Space series.

[RonaldVaughan]

Actress Marsha Hunt was in this movie...one

of the rare roles she got after being

"blacklisted" by the then-anti-Communist

hysteria of the Fifties...

[RonaldVaughan]

ONE OF THE GREAT MOVIES OF ALL TIME!! I must have seen this,as a 10-year-old kid, in 1960 in a Houston,Texas movie theater. It scared the hell out of me! I had nightmares for about a month. BUT WHAT A MOVIE!! btw,the "sand chorus" was probably what musicians call "The Devil's Interval"... a DELIBERATELY discordant group of sounds... the NASTIEST sound ever made... Nobody makes them like THIS anymore!

[Jayee123]

I've enjoyed reading people's memories of seeing this as kids. Also liked the Mormon Tabernacle Sand quip. I saw it recently as a 40-year old and in spite of the hokiness, was still creeped out by it. Your parents turning against you; what a nightmare.

[axecalibore]

Beware the "Mormon Tabernacle Sand" as my girlfriend called it. Next to Forbidden Planet, probably the most unique music ever written for a science fiction film. Credited to Raoul Kraushar, but probably ghost written by Mort Glickman, who had a heart condition and needed the money. Borrows elements from Holst's "The Planets" When Cathy comes to the door, you can hear a short selection from Holst's "Venus" note for note!

[stevenjockman]

Does anyone remember the NAME of the '50s B&W sci-fi film with an alien blob in a refinery oil tank? They b.s'ed it was a new synthetic food experiment. Food was being processed in the huge refinery oil tank. An investigating individual breached security and then slipped into the tank, a pulsating "blob" got all over him. I remember the guy walking down the outer circular tank stairs with his clothes smoking and his skin burning, and he was yelling, "It burns, the food burns"

[axecalibore]

"Does anyone remember the NAME of the '50s B&W sci-fi film with an alien blob in a refinery oil tank? "

"Enemy From Space" from the Quatermas series.

In England it's probably called Quatermas 2.

Not released on video. Rare. I have a VHS copy I got off public TV in the 90s. Written by Nigel Kneale= good.

[beeba77]

Thanks Steven: I was beginning to think I was the only person who saw the movie! I'm so glad I stumbled upon yours and "axecalibore's" postings. I can die now. My thanks to you both!

[Majikart]

@beeba77 I saw this movie when I was about 7 years old and the 'Sand Choir' music, That broken fence on the hilltop and the sand opening up Really Creeped me out; One of the Best Spookiest Sc-Fi movies ever

[beeba77]

@Majikart - Well said and described. Also, I totally agree with you in regard to it being one of the best spookiest sci-fi movies ever!!

[clockworktim]

This movie freaked me out as a kid. At the end of the dead end street in front of our house was open fields like in the story. I was a little kid & half expected to look out my window, see a saucer landing down there & then watch neighbors disappear, sucked down into the sand holes like in the movie. And with that scary choir music to boot! This was a great show, very sophisticated with its imagination & paranoia. The 80s remake was garbage. This was the real deal. Thanks for posting.

[ATOMICBIGFOOT156]

GEE WHIZZ!

[blAckg0D]

UNUSUAL!

[PantherJM15]

I had no idea that the 80s version was a remake...

[PBLEY]

Its the strange and bizarre haunting music, that I most remember about this B-Movie classic.

[PBLEY]

The strange and bizarre haunting music is what I remember most about this B-Movie classic.

[radley34]

Gee Whizz!!! Actually this was on bbc4 last night - great movie

[Thekidmakesmovies]

I thought this movie was great!

[aliensundercover]

it say Leaf Erikon lol

[aliensundercover]

i ordered this from amazon along with one called war of the worlds(old one) they look really good

[6000donuts]

That was the FIRST sci-fi movie that I have ever watched but I hated the remake. I wonder if it could be remade better.

[everlasting123]

og my god I have not seen this since I was a kid, it scared the hell out of me. Classic.

[axecalibore]

I saw this in the TV guide in 1959. It started at 3. School got out at 3. I ran home several blocks. I was more thrilled and excited than scared. Didn't see it in color until I was 20. Thought I had gone to heaven. Even when I was 9, I thought Helena Carter made a hot damsel in distress (much better than Karen Black in the awful remake)

[Luvnessi]

ohh ditto. I was scared to death of it and i love it. there is the 80s one, too, that I grew up with...although it as nearly as great it did manage to scare the begeesus out of me. Great upload! Thanks!

[atomicplayboy4u]

This movie scared the crap out of me when I was like 8 or 9 yo when I saw it on TV After seeing this movie I was afraid to play in the sandpit behind my aunts house.LOL