We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ever since H.G. Wells released "War of the Worlds" in 1898, popular culture has been fascinated by alien invasion stories. For over a century, ...

The alien invasion storyline is one of the classic and most reliable premises in sci-fi history. It's an easy way to introduce a potential threat to humanity and explore the idea of confronting the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time revolve around humans in a desperate struggle for survival. Sometimes we're ...

Belen Edwards is an Entertainment Reporter at Mashable. She covers movies and TV with a focus on fantasy and science fiction, adaptations, animation, and more nerdy goodness. She is a member of the ...

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

The alien mothership makes contact with Earth in this scene from ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind.’ Columbia Pictures Amy Adams attempts to communicate with a cephalopod-like, seven-limbed alien ...

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We review one of the stranger films at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival, David and Nathan Zellner's Alpha Gang.

On the highly unlikely but equally mind-blowing instance in which aliens really do come down to our shiny blue planet to see what's what, perhaps it might not be wise for world leaders to be the first ...

Jin's newest film, Hope, is a wildly irreverent and thrilling new take on the classic alien invasion genre of movies.