George Bass

George Bass is a feature writer who contributes to the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Times Higher Education and the New York Times. He is based in Kent.

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Pulsing brain, twitching tentacles: how Invaders from Mars supercharged the alien invasion movie

A favourite of directors including Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, the 1953 version of Invaders from Mars frightened a generation with its vision of Martian mind-controllers arriving on Earth. As a new restoration comes out on disc, we revisit the terror and charm of one of the quintessential Red Scare films.

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Pulsing brain, twitching tentacles: how Invaders from Mars supercharged the alien invasion movie
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