The War of the Worlds (1953) (DVD) Reviews

The War of the Worlds is a 1953 science fiction film directed by Byron Haskin from a script by Barré Lyndon. The film was the first screen adaption of the classic HG Wells novel and won an Oscar for its colourful and striking special effects. This is a rather loose adaption of the story written by HG Wells with late Victorian London replaced by ...  Read the complete review

This is still a very good and very watchable film even now. All the Martian "sounds" are pretty much part of the main stay of Science Fiction sound effects today. The film sets The Martians as totally different from humans, creating an "Us & Them" situation mirroring the East Versus West fears of The Cold War in ...  Read the complete review

HG Well’s novel was always going to be ripe pickings for a modern day makeover. The story of invaders from another planet has been made before but that was back in the day when even calculators were the stuff of dreams. So if you’re going to entrust a classic piece of sci-fi to someone then who better than the master of blockbusters himself – ...  Read the complete review

Let’s face it, we’re all entranced by the thought of little green men (especially after a few beers). The concept of aliens from another world has fascinated us for the most part of the last couple of centuries. The 1950’s saw an explosion of hostile aliens in comics and B-movies that lit up the imagination of teenage children and day-dreamer ...  Read the complete review

"No one would have believed in the last years of the 19th Century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized as someone with a microsope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on ...  Read the complete review