Late comment - I couldn't agree more!! The men walking towards us with expressions of hope and wonder and then that sinister glowing red "eye" that perfectly captures the cold, inimical outlook of the invaders!
32 years old and not ashamed to say, this move scared me shitless as a kid. I used to have visions of lying in my bed at night and the cobra head rising at the foot of my bed. When it cuts to it at 1:56. The subtle "Bwom" you can hear behind the noise it's making somehow made it MUCH scarier.
Top notch practical effects for it's time. The sound effects were particularly scary 😨 Sadly, the Martian War Machines were all lost to copper recycling. One can only imagine what one would bring at auction today 💰
17 years old and my dad forced me to watch this a kid and it honestly traumatized me but now i love it even though the damn sound effects give me chills... but while the newer ones are far scarier this one will always be the creepiest.
I remember being 8 years old and my boomer Dad excitedly setting the then new VCR to record this on our local Saturday Science Fiction matinee. The special effects still hold up as well as the feeling of dread from a seemingly unstoppable enemy.
The special effects and the sound of the alien space craft id say are better than some modern films. I also love the rich depth of colour in this film.
Hey, is there anyone reading these comments on this account because I’ve watched this movie over 40 years ago as a young boy because I remember the scene here which featured a trio of men who were on security detail, and this is when the meteor unscrewed its cap, revealing this large cannon coming out of it And then I remember seeing the men standing in front of it, with a piece of white cloth attached to a stick, and they were trying to make friends with us only to be cremated within seconds then miles away , a town was left without power, because of what the canon did to the power plant nearby.
Actually it likely is a type of sonar device to detect objects that's nearby that they can't see in well in the vehicle. Likely its designed to find targets for them to see in a spectrum they can see with the tri-color eye set they have. the eye-stalk is likely similar to both a periscope for the pilot and crew and as a targeting device that can home and accurately hit its targets. The pinging radar sound likely is exactly that to determine objects in its location giving the ship and crew 350 degrees of vision.
Man I laugh at a lot of these old 50s flicks for what our grandparents found "Scary" as kids, but I have to admit. Even I someone born like 45 years after this movie was released? Finds that cutaway to the cobra head at 1:56 a bit unnerving. It was at that moment I first watched that I knew. "Oh these guys are SO dead."
The way it turns slowly around almost conveying a sense of annoyance like it's flicking off a fly. The sound effect of it's death ray slowly winding up conveys malice building up to a fever pitch. Extermination. So many themes of post-WW2 and the nuclear age.
I thought the main stalk on top was how they saw from inside the ship but it had to be just for shooting rays like a tank cannon. The aliens would probably go blind looking through this periscope every time they fired, lol.
Agreed. For a 50's movie it's awfully forward-thinking to have this. He says it best. "Don't fool around with something you don't know what it is". Even when he goes with them out of peer pressure, and they are calling to it, he's quite obviously terrified.
Great old movie. Other George Pal Sci-Fi from the same era: When Worlds Collide, Destination Moon, and The 1960 production of The Time Machine. Non Sci-Fi from the 50s produced by George Pal is The Naked Jungle. I agree with other comments; check out Forbidden Planet, also This Island Earth, not George Pal productions but great. Incidentally, at 0:02 the Martians just lost the War of the Worlds. It's all over but the shouting right there.
I love how these thing weren't label as an "Alien" but Martians. I bet Alien wasn't a famous term for the Outsider creature from the earth in any Sci-Fi movie at the time until the movie "Alien" came out in 1979
It’s bc it was an adaptation of War of the Worlds. The aliens in both the book and this movie had them be on mars, so the name Martian fit them very well.
This film is a good example to mankind. All these signals and messages were sending out to the cosmos. How do we know if we find any Aliens they're friendly?
This is getting a ton of attention now considering the US government now admits the existence of ufos and is now proving they have a new Pentagon department investigating it.
@Sal Santiago you're basing this on the physics we were taught, well trash it all. Alien propulsion systems are anti gravity generators, they bend space and time. The distances are reduced greatly. Watch RUclips, Bob lazar, Jeremy corbell. I'm throughly convinced of alien visitation when the highest level military pilots and commanders are coming forward, and... the Government now finally is being truthful.
1 they dont have anything investigating ufo's anymore as they disbanded that due to the cost and nother comeing out o it that justifies keeping it. 2 the stuff they shown last few years that aliens/ufos followers believe is evidence have all been debunked commpletely
Humans: “Let’s show them the white flag to show that we’re friendly.” Aliens: “Hello, Earthlings! We come on pea- HOLY CRAP, THEY’RE WAVING THE WHITE FLAG OF WAR! WE MUST DESTROY THEM BEFORE THEY DESTROY US!!!
It certainly was! The original theatrical trailers for the movie advertised "presented in full color by Technicolor!" Full color was a selling point, though this was still 14 years after audiences were dazzled by the technicolor in The Wizard of Oz (1939). In fact, 1953 came at the very end of three-strip Technicolor.
Color in the movies was seen since the late 1930s. In 1939, saw the release in theaters of 'Gone With The Wind' and 'The Wizard of Oz', both featured vibrant 'technicolor', a high fidelity stereo sound and a wider aspect ratio. Movie making went on a kind of low budget hiatus during the war but by 1946, movies came back bigger than ever, By the mid 1960s, TV was giving them a run for their money with bigger sets with color, though the hi-res flat screens and hi-fi sound had to wait for digital TV in the late 1990s.
I see a 2017 date for the uploading of this video. So in 3 years no one has noticed or said anything aboutr the misspelling of 'martians'? Or no one cares enough to correct it?
First time I saw this, I expected a hoard of aliens to start coming out of the meteor once the hatch opened (that's how it worked in the original book and comic adaptions).
That is not how it happened in the book at all. A single alien dispatched from each canister that fired from Mars, and over the course of a few days the Martians built the tripods. I don't think you read the book.
The Day The Earth Stood Still - Alien arrive in Earth with peace greeting. Then, someone try to shoot it The War Of The Worlds - Alien arrive in Earth. Human try to show them a white flag as to greet and welcome their arrival, peacefully, then got killed
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Humans: "we're friends"
Martians: we're not 🚿
"Don't fool around with something when you don't know what it is" Wiser words were never spoken.
Agreed. Too bad he didnt stick with it and stay hidden.
Science Fiction at its best. This movie still holds up today almost 70 years after it was made.
One of the two best science fiction movies of the 50s alongside of Forbidden Planet.
no it doesnt 😂😂 the dialogue is so cheesy
@@gpman6937 give it a break, it’s the 50s
@@levthemapperxd which means it hasn't held up
@@gpman6937Oh yes it has, this movie blows away the remake with Tom Cruise, better special effects and sound and its 1953!
I can't believe this was made in the early 50's.
Such a timeless masterpiece!
I'd also recommend "Forbidden Planet"
That timeless masterpiece led to a TV series back in 1988, which, unfortunately, lasted only two seasons.
This honestly made me scared of lamp posts as a kid.
I w as born in 1984 and it did the same.
I discovered hitting a steel girder with a rock sounded a lot like the green lazers they shot from their wingtips when I was a kid.
I was just saying the same 😝
@@keithode1737 literally 1984
I was scared of street lights after seeing this as a kid too
The Martians do the right thing; if you ever land in California and some dudes approach with a sugar sack, heat em.
yeaha
Martians should head to England and abduct Charles and Camilla then all will be right with the world 🌎 😅😂🎉
Especially, if you land in California
Living in California right now, I can confirm.
1:57 - what a BRILLIANT cut to the next shot!
One of the best!
Late comment - I couldn't agree more!! The men walking towards us with expressions of hope and wonder and then that sinister glowing red "eye" that perfectly captures the cold, inimical outlook of the invaders!
As gripping and chilling today as it was in 1953. A genuine classic.
those incomparable sound effects! source of most of the movie's horror!
This sound has elements of War of the Worlds (1950) and Star Trek (1966) What? No Forbidden Planet?
ruclips.net/video/Ii2Qg52Pw6w/видео.html
32 years old and not ashamed to say, this move scared me shitless as a kid. I used to have visions of lying in my bed at night and the cobra head rising at the foot of my bed. When it cuts to it at 1:56. The subtle "Bwom" you can hear behind the noise it's making somehow made it MUCH scarier.
Top notch practical effects for it's time. The sound effects were particularly scary 😨
Sadly, the Martian War Machines were all lost to copper recycling. One can only imagine what one would bring at auction today 💰
I love the sound effect
Absolutely one of my favorite sci-fi movies, and it’s from the 50’s, no less!
As a child this movie scared the hell out of me, kept me up the night after and had nightmares. Funny looking back at it now lol
Love how the 2005 movie had the same alien cobra like design
Martians: "Peace was never an option!"
"Peace? No peace"
Exactly, Mars Is Dying, Earth Is A Ripe Civilization And Humanity So Primative.
We Will Wipe Out The Planet And Claim It Ourselves.
@@sailormoonfan692derekweter6 **laugh in bacteria**
Bacteria: “Allow me to introduce myself”
Like the Borg," resistance is futile!"
This film is now 70 years old. Unreal.
17 years old and my dad forced me to watch this a kid and it honestly traumatized me but now i love it even though the damn sound effects give me chills... but while the newer ones are far scarier this one will always be the creepiest.
Ugh the sound of those ships always freaked me the fuck out. As a kid even up until today.
I remember being 8 years old and my boomer Dad excitedly setting the then new VCR to record this on our local Saturday Science Fiction matinee. The special effects still hold up as well as the feeling of dread from a seemingly unstoppable enemy.
Humans: we welcome you!
Grand Moff Martian: You may fire when ready…
The special effects and the sound of the alien space craft id say are better than some modern films. I also love the rich depth of colour in this film.
pure nostalgia speaking lol
Filmed in three pack Technicolour.
the sound effects always creeped me out so much and i think it really did its job lol
Hey, is there anyone reading these comments on this account because I’ve watched this movie over 40 years ago as a young boy because I remember the scene here which featured a trio of men who were on security detail, and this is when the meteor unscrewed its cap, revealing this large cannon coming out of it And then I remember seeing the men standing in front of it, with a piece of white cloth attached to a stick, and they were trying to make friends with us only to be cremated within seconds then miles away , a town was left without power, because of what the canon did to the power plant nearby.
The alien chirping sound very much like it is scanning the area with sonar ...
Actually it likely is a type of sonar device to detect objects that's nearby that they can't see in well in the vehicle. Likely its designed to find targets for them to see in a spectrum they can see with the tri-color eye set they have. the eye-stalk is likely similar to both a periscope for the pilot and crew and as a targeting device that can home and accurately hit its targets. The pinging radar sound likely is exactly that to determine objects in its location giving the ship and crew 350 degrees of vision.
Man I laugh at a lot of these old 50s flicks for what our grandparents found "Scary" as kids, but I have to admit. Even I someone born like 45 years after this movie was released? Finds that cutaway to the cobra head at 1:56 a bit unnerving. It was at that moment I first watched that I knew. "Oh these guys are SO dead."
The way it turns slowly around almost conveying a sense of annoyance like it's flicking off a fly. The sound effect of it's death ray slowly winding up conveys malice building up to a fever pitch. Extermination. So many themes of post-WW2 and the nuclear age.
They say the sound of the death ray was an electric guitar played backwards.
A simple practical effect and sound design: vastly more effective than loud, gaudy CGI.
(1:57) I LOVE this cut! Right to the pulsing "eye" of the heat ray. 😎
Great movie 👍
I remember the sound effect first heard at 0:18 would also be used in "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" for the Spooky Space Ghost's eerie spaceship.
Still very cool and still holds up very well.
This was a reasonable reaction to being bothered to be fair to the Martians
true
This scene scared the living shit out of me when I was 5
The Martians would have stood down if these men walked out with a white flag. Instead, they walked out with an old sugar sack...
They needed to wave a Mexican flag. Then the Martians would let THEM invade! >:}
Na. They’d be vaporized. They tried that in the book and the aliens didn’t give a flying saucer.
I thought the main stalk on top was how they saw from inside the ship but it had to be just for shooting rays like a tank cannon. The aliens would probably go blind looking through this periscope every time they fired, lol.
i hid behind the couch and peeped over the back of it when i was a kid i was so terrified when i saw this part on tv
That pulse still haunts my nightmares!
Nightmare fuel to this day.
Is there a specific order or can i watch them randomly i plan o doing both
Para mirar y no dejar de mirar nunca...
I like the way it looks at the sky as it knows reinforcements are coming shortly.
Little did they know that a white flag is a declaration of war in Martian culture
Guys: We're friends!
Aliens: Aw, thats nice of u! NOW U DIE
When I was 5 I thought martians lived inside oil barrels on construction sites
You have to love the irony - the one with the most brains was the one whom certain groups got a problem with these days.
Jealousy
The Martians?
Agreed. For a 50's movie it's awfully forward-thinking to have this.
He says it best. "Don't fool around with something you don't know what it is". Even when he goes with them out of peer pressure, and they are calling to it, he's quite obviously terrified.
He takes one look and decides: How ‘bout no!
"I hope you like 100 degree burning lava 🚿"
Great old movie. Other George Pal Sci-Fi from the same era: When Worlds Collide, Destination Moon, and The 1960 production of The Time Machine. Non Sci-Fi from the 50s produced by George Pal is The Naked Jungle. I agree with other comments; check out Forbidden Planet, also This Island Earth, not George Pal productions but great. Incidentally, at 0:02 the Martians just lost the War of the Worlds. It's all over but the shouting right there.
I love how these thing weren't label as an "Alien" but Martians. I bet Alien wasn't a famous term for the Outsider creature from the earth in any Sci-Fi movie at the time until the movie "Alien" came out in 1979
It’s bc it was an adaptation of War of the Worlds. The aliens in both the book and this movie had them be on mars, so the name Martian fit them very well.
Movie was way ahead of it’s time
"We'll talk in sign language" ... Like any of those guys knew sign language!
My dad said he watched war of the worlds 1953 when he was a kid
I’ve always wondered how did the rest of the Martin ship get out if that tiny hatch?
This film is a good example to mankind. All these signals and messages were sending out to the cosmos. How do we know if we find any Aliens they're friendly?
Well, I'm sure they got in all the papers. Just not the way they intended.
These Aliens were particularly nasty. They even incinerated the Vicar and his Bible.
2:50
This terrified me as a kid but in all fairness, Spielberg's version is 1000x more terrifying than the original.
Famous last words
This is getting a ton of attention now considering the US government now admits the existence of ufos and is now proving they have a new Pentagon department investigating it.
@Sal Santiago well , try research, it's all true. They have admitted ufo existence and the Pentagon is researching it.
@Sal Santiago unidentified flying object. An aircraft that defies any known engineering design and propulsion.
@Sal Santiago you're basing this on the physics we were taught, well trash it all. Alien propulsion systems are anti gravity generators, they bend space and time. The distances are reduced greatly.
Watch RUclips, Bob lazar, Jeremy corbell. I'm throughly convinced of alien visitation when the highest level military pilots and commanders are coming forward, and... the Government now finally is being truthful.
Yeah. I know what you mean. There's even an alien in the white house right now that is out of touch with reality.
1 they dont have anything investigating ufo's anymore as they disbanded that due to the cost and nother comeing out o it that justifies keeping it.
2 the stuff they shown last few years that aliens/ufos followers believe is evidence have all been debunked commpletely
No alien invader has any intention of being "friends". 👽
The alien in The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) on the other hand has any intention of being friend when it arrives at the first place
@@ytgc-royalewarex5190 And how well did that turn out? 😅
@@luisreyes1963
Until when someone tried to shoot the alien when the alien just came out of its spaceship (spoiler alert)
It's a pity that these three men were wrong...
1:57 sprung with the Triple Wax High Gloss option before laying waste to Earth. Classy aliens.
"Unlike you monkey men, we are not without class"
I saw this film
Great for ya
well good for you
tripod is our masterpice but i dont :(
Looks like the 2005 Drone abit.
1:19 agreed
France: [invaded]
Also France: 1:30
'first to make contact with them/be in all the papers' this guy was the original tiktok narcissist.
Humans: “Let’s show them the white flag to show that we’re friendly.”
Aliens: “Hello, Earthlings! We come on pea- HOLY CRAP, THEY’RE WAVING THE WHITE FLAG OF WAR! WE MUST DESTROY THEM BEFORE THEY DESTROY US!!!
How did they get all of their stuff out of such a small hole?
Flat pack?
Heatray:🚿🚿🚿🚰🔥🔥
I don't get it, I know it was the 50s but once you see an alien craft beginning to sound threateningly, why not up and run?
Yeah, people are fleeing Cali for a lot less these days.
It's art ......... not real life ....A movie is all about getting in a jam and trying to figure out how to get out of it ...........
The lampposts at night:
Martian one shot the party with Firaga 😔
Say hello to Covid you damn Martians!
Horsell common and the heatray But a bit more calm
The martian war machine is 70 years ago now its buried
But where's the kid constantly screaming?
The greenscreen😭
they did not use greescreen in those days
Was originally un full color??
It certainly was! The original theatrical trailers for the movie advertised "presented in full color by Technicolor!"
Full color was a selling point, though this was still 14 years after audiences were dazzled by the technicolor in The Wizard of Oz (1939). In fact, 1953 came at the very end of three-strip Technicolor.
when I saw it. it was color.
Color in the movies was seen since the late 1930s. In 1939, saw the release in theaters of 'Gone With The Wind' and 'The Wizard of Oz', both featured vibrant 'technicolor', a high fidelity stereo sound and a wider aspect ratio. Movie making went on a kind of low budget hiatus during the war but by 1946, movies came back bigger than ever,
By the mid 1960s, TV was giving them a run for their money with bigger sets with color, though the hi-res flat screens and hi-fi sound had to wait for digital TV in the late 1990s.
👽 🔫 pew pew pew
💥💀💥💀💥💀💥
How did the entire alien craft fit through the hole in the top of the meteor?
It’s probably loaded through another hole on mars before launch
And the Darwin award goes to...🙄
I think the top Unscrewing, is a note about what was done to fontanelles.
Welcome to calafornia
The irony is they only speak Spanish.
Andrew Mc Kenna Woz ere ,2022
Send in SAS the greatest close combat unit in the world.
Human's are from Mars We Left there LONG Ago...check out spirit science
I see a 2017 date for the uploading of this video. So in 3 years no one has noticed or said anything aboutr the misspelling of 'martians'?
Or no one cares enough to correct it?
We know. But no one likes a grammar nazi.
00:20 "Sir,i think this guys are not Russians.."
First time I saw this, I expected a hoard of aliens to start coming out of the meteor once the hatch opened (that's how it worked in the original book and comic adaptions).
That is not how it happened in the book at all. A single alien dispatched from each canister that fired from Mars, and over the course of a few days the Martians built the tripods. I don't think you read the book.
@@brainerror3168 I don't know what version you read, but in the one I read, there were several aliens in the first capsule.
The Day The Earth Stood Still - Alien arrive in Earth with peace greeting. Then, someone try to shoot it
The War Of The Worlds - Alien arrive in Earth. Human try to show them a white flag as to greet and welcome their arrival, peacefully, then got killed
I swear, this whole scene is an allegory for modern dating.
What?
Very bad idea...
Ah, sheesh...Jehovah's Witnesses. Hit the button, Cecil.
THAT IS YOUR WHITE BATTLE FLAG, HUMANS??
Someone should remaster this classic and remove the wires holding up the craft.
I don't think that man is Mexican
Clearly the aliens knew Democrats when they saw them and chose wisely.
No unfunny real life politics jokes allowed bro. :(