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nuxvomica

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1. A great movie that will always have a special meaning to me

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sat Jul 12, 2025, 05:36 PM

Jul 12

I was five when I first watched it on the TV at my best friend's house. I didn't know it at the time but he was dying from a brain tumor and that's why we had to play indoors. It scared the bejeezus out of us, which was, of course, great fun. It's a terrific film in is own right and I think it was the first sci-fi movie to play on the Cold War paranoia of distrusting those around you, six years before Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

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On "Svengoolie" tonight: the eerie original 1953 version of "Invaders from Mars" [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jul 12 OP

A great movie that will always have a special meaning to me nuxvomica Jul 12 #1

First sci-fi movie I remember seeing Oeditpus Rex Jul 12 #2