10’Them!'

It has thrilling moments, fearsome monsters, and surprisingly solid performances.

One of the best movies that came out of this obsession wasInvasion of the Body Snatchers.

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Case in point: 1932’sIsland of Lost Souls,one of the decade’s best.

A brilliant adaptation ofH.G.

A sci-fi twist onWilliam Shakespeare’sThe Tempestis just the thing that cinephiles never knew they needed.

A giant ant in Them! getting attacked by a plane

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In it, a mad scientist obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses succeeds.

Wells’s fantastic novel.

For people looking to get into classic sci-fi,The Invisible Manis the way to go.

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Dr. Miles J. Bennell, killing a pod with a pitchfork in Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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A black and white shot of the cast of The Thing from Another World.

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A man and a woman taling to a Yeti in Island of Lost Souls

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Godzilla ravaging a city in 1954’s Godzilla.

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People looking at the robot in ‘Forbidden Planet’

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A little girl sits by a creature by the river in Frankenstein

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The alien Klaatu coming out of his spaceship in The Day the Earth Stood Still.

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Frankenstein’s Monster smilign while his Bride hisses and points at something off-camera in Bride of Frankenstein

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Dr. Jack Griffin (Claude Rains) with his head wrapped up in ‘The Invisible Man’

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Bride of Frankenstein

The Day the Earth Stood Still