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The War of the Worlds
Action, Science Fiction
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy earnest apocalyptic spectacle, imposing practical effects, and ordinary people confronting an apparently unstoppable threat.
- Tone
- tense, dread, epic
- Payoff
- scares, wonder
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- invasion, survival, scientific hubris, faith, human vulnerability
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century America, small towns and devastated urban streets
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