******STOCKINGS STUFFED WITH SPOILERS!****** We of ‘a certain age’ (Gen Xers, Boomers) often look back on certain favorite films from our childhood with nostalgia and forgiveness; dismissing their flaws, leaps of logic and production shortcomings in favor of the warm, fuzzy memories they evoke. Oh, and then there’s “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” (1964)… I…
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“The Night That Panicked America” (1975) is a little-seen TV-movie about the greatest Halloween prank ever played…
“The War of the Worlds“ In 1897, the seminal sci-fi classic “The War of the Worlds,” by H. G. Wells, was serialized in Pearson’s and Cosmopolitan magazines, before being published as a novel a year later. The story concerned an invasion of Earth by Martians piloting massive tripod machines. This invading vanguard ravages the English…
Retro-Musings: Demonic myths and ancient Martians meet in 1967’s “Quatermass and the Pit”…
*****SPACESHIP-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** When I was a kid, there was a cool little sci-fi/horror flick I used to catch on TV all the time. The movie, known here in the States as “Five Million Years to Earth,” concerned London subway excavators who stumble upon a five million year-old Martian spaceship, unwittingly unleashing a deadly alien…