We mean no harm.''

But there was more to the film than Megan Fox.Ba-dum-bum.

People began to change, including Sheriff Tom Underlay (a creepy William Fichtner).

Even those too young to recall the original 1983 miniseries can guess the slippery intentions of ABC’s new Visitors, who drop out of the clouds

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(Including, yes, aliens.)

I mean, who hasn’t done that?

WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005)

Spielberg’s adaptation of H.G.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Shia LaBeouf | Michael Bay’s relentless action film breathed life into plastic toys born in the 1980s. But there was more to the film than Megan Fox. Ba-dum-bum

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MARS ATTACKS!

The movie’s icy suspense and moody frights would serve as a model for later paranoid fantasies likeBattlestar Galactica.

All the better to keep you squirming in your seat.

Invasion | INVASION (ABC, 2005-06) Number of Episodes: 22 The concept was as good as any: Akin to Invasion of the Body Snatchers , this science-fiction series

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Good thing Wills got some hands-on experience inIndependence Day.

No conspiracy was too small for the investigators of the X-Files, the FBI’s unsolved cases involving paranormal activity. Fox (David Duchovny) believed in aliens and

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Independence Day | Aliens have been attacking the Earth pretty indiscriminately since the early days of Hollywood, but Roland Emmerich’s megablockbuster marked the first time they actually planned

Tom Cruise, War of the Worlds | Spielberg’s adaptation of H.G. Wells' alien invasion novel (by way of Orson Welles' 1938 radio play) was an apocalyptic pulse-racer about a man (Tom Cruise)

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Starship Troopers, Casper Van Dien | The aliens in Paul Verhoeven’s spectacularly gory space opus aren’t lanky green mutes or glowing orbs or humanoid imposters. They’re bugs — giant, man-eating things

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Movie - 1978), Donald Sutherland | In this remake of the 1956 horror classic (far superior to 2007’s The Invasion ), aliens slowly overtake San Francisco by replacing its citizens with

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Brian Donlevy | Contrary to what Hollywood has taught us, aliens don’t just attack the United States. This British horror pic (the X in the title was a

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Abigail Breslin, Joaquin Phoenix, …

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They Live, Keith David, … | John Carpenter’s bizarro political satire starts off with a conceit that’s almost as frightening as it is funny: What if the world’s leaders were all

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Men in Black, Tommy Lee Jones, … | The genius twist in Barry Sonnenfeld’s dark comic blockbuster: The aliens aren’t invading — they’re already here, most of them living peacefully as our friends,

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John Lithgow, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

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The Blob (1958) Any amorphous alien-like monster that eats whole towns but can be fended off with fire extinguishers is no match for other movie

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James Spader, Jaye Davidson, … | An intergalactic portal transports a team of scientists to a distant world that looks like a futuristic ancient Egypt (the oxymoron actually makes sense in

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Terence Stamp, Christopher Reeve, … | If anyone deserves to be happy, it’s the Man of Steel, right? Why shouldn’t he be able to ditch his powers, settle down with Lois

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