Best 25 Sci-Fi Movies Worth Watching Released in 1953

A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion. See more about The War of the Worlds / IMDB / YouTube

A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely. Check out It Came from Outer Space / IMDB / YouTube

A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings. Check out Invaders from Mars / IMDB / YouTube

A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City. Explore The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms / IMDB / YouTube

Duck Dodgers and Marvin Martian wage war over Planet X. Info on Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century / IMDB / YouTube

The monstrous Ro-Man attempts to annihilate the last family alive on Earth, but finds himself falling for their beautiful daughter. Read about Robot Monster / IMDB / YouTube

Two bumbling American cops hunt for the mysterious Mr. Hyde in London, England. More about Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / IMDB / YouTube

Two workmen accidentally launch a space rocket intended for Mars, and find mistakenly landing in New Orleans just the beginning of their misadventures. Check out Abbott and Costello Go to Mars / IMDB / YouTube

The Office of Scientific Investigation sends A-Men agents to investigate reports of unusual magnetic activity in various communities. Check out The Magnetic Monster / IMDB / YouTube

Astronauts travel to the moon where they discover it is inhabited by attractive young women in black tights. Find out about Cat-Women of the Moon / IMDB / YouTube

A mad scientist named Arana is creating giant spiders and dwarfs in his lab on Zarpa Mesa in Mexico. He wants to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider venom. See more about Mesa of Lost Women / IMDB / YouTube

Three scientists unlawfully remove the still living brain of a dead tycoon and experiment with it but the evil brain begins to telepathically control the lead scientist. See more about Donovan's Brain / IMDB / YouTube

When an asteroid crashes, the search begins to track down the mysterious aliens. Check out Phantom from Space / IMDB / YouTube

A saboteur posing as a scientist strives to destroy the world's first space station. Info on Project Moon Base / IMDB / YouTube

A Scotsman named Gerald breaks his engagement to Kitty, moves to his uncle's castle. Kitty and her aunt follow him weeks later, finding Gerald aged. Info on The Maze / IMDB / YouTube

Bill and Robin, helped by their childhood friend, Lena, develop a reproducer which can exactly duplicate any object. Bill, crushed when Lena marries Robin, convinces her to allow him to duplicate her, so that he may have a copy of her for himself. The experiment, at first deemed a success, seems to have worked only too well as the duplicate, Helen, is such an exact . Explore Four Sided Triangle / IMDB / YouTube

Professor Groves, an expert in prehistoric life, proves his theories with an extract that'll regress a cat to a saber-tooth tiger and man to a Neanderthal. Get info on The Neanderthal Man / IMDB / YouTube

Tweedy college professor discovers his new TV set is animate, apparently possessed by something from the future, and militantly intent on regulating his daily life. Read about The Twonky / IMDB / YouTube

British scientists test rocket; matrimonial strife looms. Rocket partially fails; couple goes missing. Did they elope or are they dead, orbiting in rocket debris? Explore Spaceways / IMDB / YouTube

A variety of fanciful innovations in future T.V. sets, including a model with a built-in stove, and a number of highly interactive models. And of course, even with dozens of channels, there's nothing on...or more accurately, there's nothing but the same Western. See more about T.V. of Tomorrow / IMDB / YouTube

A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. More about Planet Outlaws / IMDB / YouTube

A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists secretly. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious accident, and there are many arguments concerning the flight itself; some think it should be ground-controlled while Heathley (James Donald) wants it to be a manned fli. Check out Project M7 / IMDB / YouTube

A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, some thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there, a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack them all. See more about Port Sinister / IMDB / YouTube