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1950’s mutant creatures and alien invaders

Audiences were first introduced to mutant creatures and aliens in movies in the 1950’s. The first 50’s movie to feature outer space and aliens was a low-budget movie called ‘Rocketship X-M’. This then started a trend of sci-fi films. Some of the most popular and films of the genre were ‘The Thing’, ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’, ‘Invasion Of The Body Snatcher’, ‘It Came From Outer Space’ and ‘War Of The Worlds’.

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Mutant Madness

Existing life forms made monsters as they could be photographed using blue screen techniques. Early special effects worked well in the King Kong movie, 1933. On screen monsters represented the cutting edge of movie technology and was seen as a good way to draw audiences away from tv.This era’s obsession with the monster movie stems from the fears generated by co-existence with the atom bomb.Monster movies offered a vision of destruction created by non-humans; instead of generating chaos and disaster, humans represent a force of good. These monster movies of 1950’s were the first blockbusters.

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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

This was such a big movie of its time because it refers to communists. The aliens in the film made everybody the same once it had taken over their body, which is much like what the communists did. Society was in fear that the communist would take over and make everybody the same.

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Technology scare in the 1950’s

In the 1950’s, people were worried that we were ahead of time in terms of technology and were scared that it would take over their lives. People lived in fear

that the effects of technology was going to mutant and deform people. Films after the war in the cinemas didn’t concentrate on the war and fighting but

the pace of technology we were using. For example the atom bomb, guns and machinery.

The race to space was also a major thing in the 1950’s. Because of the new obsession of aliens and mutant creatures in movies, Countries wanted to got to space and explore and see if there is other life form. The competition was mainly

between the USA and Russia.

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ALIEN & MUTANT CREATURE FILMS NOW!

Even now, there’s still and obsession with space and what’s out there. People are always coming up with new ideas of what creatures out in space look like. And we see this in the new alien and mutant creature movies. In todays generation there’s some stereotypes and less fear and more mocking of the creatures. Movies such as Monsters Inc and Alien VS Monsters.