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Invaders from Mars (Special Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381136227
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Special Edition, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Image Entertainment
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
MPN: ID1362CODVD
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 03, 2002
Running Time: 79 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: April 22, 1953
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Editorial Review:
The cold-war paranoia of the McCarthy era had America in its grip when the original Invaders from Mars was released in 1953, and this atmospheric, highly influential science fiction film--the first of its kind to be filmed in color--was perfectly in tune with the mood of its time. Jimmy Hunt plays the quintessential American boy of the post-war years--a freckle-faced kid named David who's curious, alert, and possibly prone to elaborate flights of fancy. Then, during a midnight thunderstorm, he witnesses the landing of a flying saucer that buries itself underground in a nearby field. David's father (Leif Erickson) indulges his son's urging to investigate... and thus begins a bizarre and chilling story of alien invasion, with David's cries of "Martians!" falling on deaf ears as more and more adults are abducted, probed, and placed under alien control.
Designed and directed by William Cameron Menzies (one of the greatest production designers of Hollywood's golden age, whose credits include Gone with the Wind), this eerie little thriller benefits from Menzies's skill at combining physical settings with psychological undercurrents of paranoid terror and resistance against the alien threat. It's still most effective for younger viewers, with Jimmy Hunt providing the story's youthful point of view. And although the malevolent aliens look campy now, with a leader who resembles a bubble-brained squid in a fishbowl, Invaders from Mars remains one of the seminal science fiction films of its time, paving the way for The War of the Worlds and the rapidly developing trend of alien-invasion thrillers. --Jeff Shannon
A young boy is awakened during a storm to witness a flying saucer land in the field behind his home. No one will believe his story as one by one the townspeople are captured and put under the control of sinister forces from the planet Mars! Brilliantly created by visionary set designer and director William Cameron Menzies (designer of "Gone with the Wind" and H.G. Wells' "Things to Come") with a haunting musical score by Raoul Kraushaar this golden age sci-fi classic has lost none of its chilling power. Surreal imagery brought to terrifying life in a Cinecolor world just beyond our nightmares!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: NR UPC: 014381136227 Manufacturer No: ID1362CODVD
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Invaders: The Pros and Cons
(By the way, 3 stars is for the DVD, not the movie. This is a very bad copy of a great film. The picture is grainy and filled with lines.)
Pros:
-This is one of the all time classic sci fi films.
-It starts off with a bang, very similar to Finney's Body Snatchers at first.
-Let's face it, this film is just plain fun.
-Wonderful exemplar of all things that are 50s sci fi!
-I love the Martian! (The little silver guy in the glass ball, not the ... Read More
Rating: - Influential But Clunky--A "So Bad It's Good" Cult Classic
The 1938 John W. Campbell novella WHO GOES THERE? introduced American readers to the idea of an alien invader who masquerades as human--and as Cold War paranoias began to drive American pop culture the concept began to re-emerge as a metaphor for communist infiltration.
Very likely influenced by the 1951 Robert A. Heinlein novel THE PUPPET MASTERS, the 1953 film INVADERS FROM MARS is generally regarded as the first film to bring the metaphor to the screen. Independently made but picked ... Read More
Rating:  - my nightmare lives!
This movie gave me bad dreams when I was a kid, and now I see why. It was in perfect shape and just as scary.
Rating: - A Lifetime's Cosmic Bliss ...
A reviewer below, A. Cormier, seems to be under the impression that this originally was a) a black-and-white movie that b) has been colorized. It a) wasn't, and b) hasn't been - although the DVD's faded print quality might suggest as much. It was released in full, gloriously rich color, as I well remember; on its initial UK release this film blew a galaxy-wide hole in my consciousness (I was a very young child - 3 years old when it was released), and my fate was sealed - I became a lifelong movie lover ... Read More
Rating: - Invaders from Mars
I remember this movie as a child. I had nightmares. I now enjoy it for my childhood memories.
Thanks for redistributing it, but it would had even be better if film stayed in Black n White instead of colorization.
"A real Movie"
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