You may not know Hawley by name, but he's done one of the best movie-to-TV adaptations in history with FX's Fargo series if anyone can capture what's great about Ridley Scott's movies but still manage to make it its own thing, it's Hawley. There's no telling when it'll come out, but last year Disney and FX announced a new Alien series from showrunner Noah Hawley. We know we'll have more additions to this list in the future, too.
By no means is this an exhaustive list, but we'd be surprised if you didn't find something you didn't want to at least give a shot. The Faculty (1998) After successfully deconstructing the slasher genre in the Scream series, writer Kevin Williamson took on the alien invasion movie with The Faculty. If American Dad isn't your bag, why not give SyFy's new series Resident Alien a shot? You've got choices.īut for now, we decided to pull together some of the best Alien shows we could think of. If The X-Files doesn't do it for you, there's always V.
Long story short? Our friends in TV production have found some solid ways to work aliens into the mix. Others are sitcoms, others are action/adventure oriented, hell you might even be able to call one or two of these a dramedy. The film is told entirely from the point of view of a single. And that's what we're here to talk about today: some of the best shows-of any genre-that feature aliens. Spielberg framed the story of alien invaders as his commentary on 9/11, and the fallout afterwards. A Los Angeles Weekly review (published in 2000) stated, The result dryly. Predator: Requiem') make for a rousing action-horror hybrid franchise. The original 'Predator' is a classic, and the silly but under-appreciated sequels (minus the awful 'Aliens vs. Not only are there several other Star Trek series alone, but whenever anyone starts to get the craving for a little extraterrestrial action on the small screen, well, they've got plenty of options to choose from. Invasion films were common27 in the 1950s featuring a variety of aliens. In the ' Predator' franchise, aliens invade Earth not to take over but rather as a hunting trip to bag some human skulls. Here’s a look at which is which, from worst to best, based on Metascores.
Not all Hollywood alien invasions are created equal. by Joal Ryan, for Metacritic June 21, 2016.
San Sebastin International Film Festival. 21 Alien Invasion Movies, Ranked from Worst to Best. The original Star Trek may not be the most ambitious show in history anymore, but when it first debuted in 1966, it certainly set TV on a course that's continued to this day. the night before, the last thing they are expecting is to discover that an alien invasion has taken place. You can get your alien fix from Star Trek. The best and worst alien abduction movies Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) Flight Of The Navigator (1986) Communion (1989) Fire In The Sky (1993). The Final Frontier." include aliens? Longtime Trekkies know the answer to that one, but more casual fans might have to do a little more research. One of the most admired of all science fiction movies of any era, The Day the Earth Stood Still stars Michael Rennie as Klaatu, an alien visitor who arrives in Washington with his robot protector Gort to deliver a message of peace to the people of the world, a timely intervention in nuclear brinkmanship from a genre too often dismissed as empty entertainment.Does "Space. An interesting teasing-out of the tensions lying behind the superficial sheen of materialist Cold War America. Night Shyamalan Stars: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin. Don Siegel’s film of the Jack Finney novel deals in the terrifying prospect of “pod people” falling from the stars to land in the backyards of residents of a California town, replacing the people they encounter one-by-one after assimilating their physical characteristics.Ĭlose thematically to John Wyndam’s The Midwitch Cuckoos (1957) and its screen translation The Village of the Damned, the film also preys on the same sense of distrust and paranoia about one’s friends and neighbours The Brain from Planet Arous exploited. A widowed former reverend living with his children and brother on a Pennsylvania farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, which suggests something more frightening to come.