1950s sci-fi movies focused on aliens and warfare.
Summary The 1950s produced plenty of memorable sci-fi book adaptations, as filmmakers sought inspiration from both pulp fiction and well-respected authors. In the aftermath of the Second World War, and with the Cold War in full swing, sci-fi in the 1950s reflected the common anxieties of the era. The atomic age and the space race both represented frightening new frontiers in the world of science, and many sci-fi movies also borrowed from the horror genre.
John W. Campbell's novella "Who Goes There?" is probably most famous these days as the basis for John Carpenter's sci-fi/horror classic The Thing, but it was adapted into a movie over 30 years earlier. 8 This Island Earth Based on This Island Earth by Raymond F. Jones Close This Island Earth was an eye-popping sci-fi spectacle when it was first released, with gorgeous technicolor and plenty of creative visual effects. This Island Earth is an expansive space opera about a race of bug-eyed aliens who use the Earth as a pawn in an intergalactic war. Humans fight back to regain their independence and their autonomy, but they are powerless in a game that they can't comprehend.
The Incredible Shrinking Man has a clever approach to its visual effects, but it's also a powerful allegory for terminal disease. Each version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers puts its own spin on Finney's novel. The 1956 iteration was released just two years after the book was published, so it exists within the same social context. Invasion of the Body Snatchers reflects the American Red Scare of the 1950s. The story hints at the creeping paranoia and malice bubbling beneath the surface of white-picket-fence middle America.
When Worlds Collide is all fire and brimstone, but it has plenty to offer beyond its religious themes. Prophetic visions of an apocalyptic future are especially prevalent in sci-fi movies during times of great social upheaval, so the 1950s produced many similar stories. When Worlds Collide has plenty of miniatures and painted backdrops which look quaint by today's standards, but it's an ambitious cautionary tale about the perils of nuclear armament.
3 Journey To The Center Of The Earth Based on Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne Close 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea wasn't the only popular Jules Verne novel to receive a big-budget movie adaptation in the 1950s. Five years after the box office success of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 20th Century Fox released Journey to the Center of the Earth, another dazzling adventure that proved to be a hit with fans.
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