Alien disasters
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Alien Objects
"Armageddon" ('98) An asteroid
"Asteroid" ('97) Dallas, TX is the target of a big rock.
"Deep Impact" ('98) An asteroid
"End of the Earth" ('30) ?
"Fire in the Sky, A" ('78TV) comet
"Ice" (2000TV) Sunspots cause the earth to experience permanent
winter.
"Inferno" ('98TV) Solar flares causes a deadly heat wave.
"Meteorites" ('98TV) A midwestern town is the target of a
meteorite
shower.
"Night of the Comet" ('84) Comet dust kills most people.
"Meteor" ('79) Comet bumps asteroid toward earth, US & USSR
cooperate.
"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" ('?) Meteors cause Van Allen belts to burn
"Waking Up the Town" ('25) ?
"When Worlds Collide" ('51) Planet heads toward Earth, people build escape spaceship.
"Where Have All the People Gone?" ('74TV)
A series of solarflares
proves fatal to the inhabitants of the Earth,
except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects.
Alien Lifeforms
- "Andromeda Strain" ('70)
- Space probe brings back killer organism.
- "Battle of the Planets" ('78)
- Zoltar and his evil minions constantly
attempt to either destroy or conquer the planet Earth.
- "Beast With a Million Eyes, The" ('55UK)
- An alien space craft lands in
the desert. The alien takes over the
minds of some of the local humans and animals and is able to see
through them. The animals attack and the terror begins.
- "Blob, The" ('58), Son of Blob ('88)
- Large jello mould attacks a town
- "Bureau of Alien Detectors" ('96)
- Intergalactic aliens are
invading
Earth. It is the job of the
top-secret, specially-trained Bureau Of Alien Detectors to find and
destroy them.
- "Day of the Triffids" ('62)
- Alien crop of sunflowers takes over.
- "Defenders of the Earth" ('86)
- Based in the year 2015, Ming the
Merciless
is about to take over the
world. Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Lothar and Mandrake The Magician all
team up to stop him.
- "Earth: Final Conflict" ('97)
- An androgynous alien species called
the
Taelons arrive on earth,
claiming to be companions of humanity, putting an end to crime,
illness, and famine. Some are suspicious of the Taleons, and form
a resistance movement.
- "First Wave" ('98)
- Cade Foster discovers that aliens are among us
in the form of genetic clones, intent on enslaving the population.
- "Giant Claw, The" ('57)
- A giant bird from an anti-matter universe.
- "Giant Spider Invasion, The" ('75)
- Spiders come out of a black
hole.
- "Gigantor" ('65)
- When terrorist groups, evil criminals and aliens become too strong
even for Earth's over-stretched armed forces, the
virtually-indestructible robot, Gigantor, is built to combat them.
- "Independence Day"
- "Invaders From Mars" ('?)
- Green velvet liesure suited aliens
implant
control probes in the necks of the townspeople, but the little boy evades
them.
- "Invasion" ('97)
- Small rocks fall from the sky which, when touched,
trigger a latent
virus that has always existed in humans and begins mutating them into
an alien species. Taking advantage of its hive mentality, the aliens
are absolutely dedicated to transforming every human on Earth and do
so with alarming swiftness. Only a small group of humans remain who
have the medical knowledge to devise antibodies to reverse the effects
of the virus.
- "Invasion: Earth" ('98)
- observations and the
construction of the alien spacecraft lends credence to it, the
nightmarish prospect of a full scale invasion of the planet Earth
- "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" ('56), ('78), "Body Snatchers"
('93)
- Big seed pods
are
replacing humans.
- "Lifeform" ('96)
- THe Mars Viking lander returns with an
intelligent but
aggresive lifeform.
- "Men in Black" (1997)
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- "Quatermass Experiment, The" ('55)
- Alien form of life to invade
the
Earth.
The final battle takes place at the Westminster Abbey
- "Space: Above and Beyond" ('95)
- Earth has finally met an alien life
form,
and the contact is decidedly
unfriendly. The series follows the adventures of the "Wild Cards," a
group of US Marine Corps aviators as they try to survive a war with
the merciless alien "Chigs."
- "Starship Troopers" ('97)
- Alien bugs fight soldiers.
- "UFO" ('70)
- Earth is threatened by an alien race who kidnap and
kill humans and use them for body parts.
- "Undermind" ('65)
- discover that a
disembodied alien force is using high frequency signals to brainwash
people
- "V" ('83TV)
- Aliens pretending to be friendly come to Earth and are
received
openly. The aliens have masqueraded themselves to look just like
humans. When it is discovered that the aliens' planet is dying and
that they have come to rape the Earth of its natural resources,
the war for Earth begins.
- "Virus" ('99)
- An alien lifeform preys on members of a tugboat
crew.
- "War of the Worlds" ('?),('88)
- H.G. Wells' classic alien invasion
movie. The superior alien is finally defeated by the lowely Earth
microbes.
TV
- "Dark Skies" ('96)
- Aliens have been among us since
the 1940's, but a government cover-up has prevented the public
from knowing this. As the series progresses, we follow John
Loengard and Kim Sayers as they attempt to thwart numerous plans
of the alien Hive,
- "X Files, The"
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