German title: Invasion vom Mars Francaise title: Les envahisseurs de la planète rouge / L’attaque des martiens Spain title: Invasores de Marte Greek title: Εισβολείς από τον Άρη Russian title: Захватчики с марса Original title: Invaders from Mars
Alternative titles: Eisvoleis ap’ ton Ari / Εισβολή απ’ τον... Άρη
Science fiction movie – USA Production year: 1952 Movie length: 95 minutes
Director: William Cameron Menzies
Movie description:
One night, young David McLean sees a spaceship crash into a nearby sandpit. His father goes to investigate, but comes back changed. Where once he was cheerful and affectionate, he’s now sullen and snarlingly rude. Others fall into the sandpit and begin acting like him: cold, ill-tempered and conspiratorial. David knows that aliens are taking over the bodies of humans, but he’ll soon discover there have been far more of these terrible thefts than he could have imagined. The young doom-monger finds some serious help in a lady doctor and a brilliant astronomer. Soon they meet the aliens: green creatures with insect-like eyes. These beings prove to be slaves to their leader: a large, silent head with ceaselessly shifting eyes and two tentacles on either side, each of which branches off into three smaller tentacles. It’s up to the redoubtable earth trio to stop its evil plans.