Classic Sci-Fi Collection (DVD)

Description: Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy - Science Fiction / Suitable for 12 years and over / Director: Don Siegel, Christian ... more

Classic Sci-Fi Collection (DVD) ... I. Nyby, Jack Arnold, Joseph Newman / Actors: Kevin McCarthy, Ken Tobey, Grant Williams, Jeff Morrow, Richard Carlson ... / DVD released 2007-10-01 at Universal Pictures UK / Features of the DVD: Box set, Black & White, PAL / Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers / Thing From Another World / Incredible Shrinking Man / This Island Earth / Creature From The Black Lagoon / It Came From Outer Space

Newest Review: ... director of the decade. A spaceship crashes in the desert, seen only by an amateur astronomer. Although no one believes his ... more

... story (apart from his pretty fiancée), soon local townsfolk start acting awful strange. Almost as if they'd been replaced by alien versions of themselves... ICFOS, apart from having the best name of any of the films here, manages to be genuinely spooky in its first half, making good use of its desert location (deserts, of course, being archetypal UFO country). The second half of the story becomes a parable of man's intolerance and fear, but without preaching. The acting's decent, and the small-town American setting...more

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Classic Sci-Fi Collection (DVD): Keep watching the skies! (1466 words)
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This is a seven-film box set of American 50s science fiction films. There are few extras, but for £20 this is quite a bargain. It contains most of the iconic 50s sci-fi classics. The 1950s saw a boom in science fiction films. Traditional horror movies rather died out in the mid-40s (maybe in response to the real horrors uncovered at the end of the war); in the 50s the scariest movies were all sci-fi. The fear of Communism and radiation, the space race, and the first UFO sightings all played into the vogue for sci-fi. America seemed poised on the brink of a brilliant, gleaming scientific future. Sci-fi played on the fears that kind of utopianism creates: fears ... Read the complete review

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