The Special effects won an Oscar®. Filmed in Technicolor® by Paramont Pictures, it was directed by Byron Haskin. Rocky cylinders hurled across space crash to Earth like burning meteorites. Bird-like war machines with metallic skins emerge from the cylinders to spread a path of destruction. Click for other version of poster

1. Forbidden Planet (1956)
2. War of The Worlds (1953)
3. This Island Earth (1955)
4. Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
5. Them! (1954)
6. Invasion of The Body Snatchers (1956)
7. The Thing From Another World (1951)
8. The Time Machine (1960)
9. When Worlds Collide (1951)
10. It Came From Outer Space (1953)