The Blob
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And here’s the third type of alien invasion I was talking about before: The advance guard (See also Cloverdale and The Thing). Mixing the unknowable aspect of War Of The Worlds with the additional worry of being absorbed by a random gelatinous mass that can’t be stopped – Not even at the end of the movie, if the question mark is anything to go by – the true worry of this film isn’t just “Where did it come from and what did it want?” but “Are there more of these things out there, somewhere?”
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
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The ultimate invasion horror story, and much imitated (See: The Faculty, Secret Invasion, They Live and so, so many others), but with good reason: There is little as scary as finding out that you’re completely right to be paranoid, and this story – in any of its versions – takes that worry and blows it up into (literally) the end of the world as we know it, with you left all alone to deal with it, knowing that you’ll likely eventually lose. Maybe it’s time to watch Independence Day again, just so we can sleep at night…
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