# Invasion vom Mars (1953)

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**Original title**: *Invaders from Mars*
**Runtime**: 78 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Horror
**Directed by**: William Cameron Menzies
**Written by**: Richard Blake, John Tucker Battle
**Starring**: Jimmy Hunt, Arthur Franz, Helena Carter, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke, Morris Ankrum

> *NATURAL or SUPERNATURAL?*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Dust hangs over the backyard swing set at dusk.  
A boy watches his father walk stiffly toward a glowing crack in the earth.  
Like a paranoid daydream scored to theremin.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult

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