Pulsing brain, twitching tentacles: how Invaders from Mars supercharged the alien invasion movie

A favourite of directors including Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, the 1953 version of Invaders from Mars frightened a generation with its vision of Martian mind-controllers arriving on Earth. As a new restoration comes out on disc, we revisit the terror and charm of one of the quintessential Red Scare films.

Pulsing brain, twitching tentacles: how Invaders from Mars supercharged the alien invasion movie
A favourite of directors including Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, the 1953 version of Invaders from Mars frightened a generation with its vision of Martian mind-controllers arriving on Earth. As a new restoration comes out on disc, we revisit the terror and charm of one of the quintessential Red Scare films.