Top 27 Sci-Fi Movies Hits from 1956

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates. Explore Invasion of the Body Snatchers / IMDB / YouTube

A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in gigantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants. More about Tarantula / IMDB / YouTube

Extraterrestrials traveling in high-tech flying saucers contact a scientist as part of a plan to enslave the inhabitants of Earth. Details on Earth vs. the Flying Saucers / IMDB / YouTube

Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate. Learn about The Quatermass Xperiment / IMDB / YouTube

In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love. Info on 1984 / IMDB / YouTube

A scientist captures the Creature and turns him into an air-breather, only for him to escape and start killing. Details on The Creature Walks Among Us / IMDB / YouTube

A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia. Find out about The Mole People / IMDB / YouTube

A radioactive, mud-like creature terrorizes a Scottish village. Get info on X the Unknown / IMDB / YouTube

A brutal death row inmate double-crossed by his crooked lawyer gets his chance for revenge when, following his execution, a bizarre experiment brings him back to life and deadlier than ever. Check out Indestructible Man / IMDB / YouTube

A well meaning scientist guides an alien monster to Earth from Venus, so that he can rid mankind of feelings and emotions - but only death and sorrow results. More about It Conquered the World / IMDB / YouTube

Astronauts returning from a voyage to Mars are caught in a time warp and are propelled into a post-Apocalyptic Earth populated by mutants. Learn about World Without End / IMDB / YouTube

Sir Joel Cadman, a mad scientist, kidnaps his victims and cuts open their brains in an effort to discover a means to cure his wife's brain tumor. More about The Black Sleep / IMDB / YouTube

A team of astronauts lands on a moon of Jupiter to find it populated with beautiful young women looking for mates. An old man explains to the explorers the group's story, as well as the moon's dangers. Check out Fire Maidens of Outer Space / IMDB / YouTube

Two scientists are involved in a car accident and find an unconscious man in the remains. They take him to their lab and inject him with a serum they have been working with. Sadly, the serum turns the man into a murderous werewolf. More about The Werewolf / IMDB / YouTube

An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle are being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur. See more about The Beast of Hollow Mountain / IMDB / YouTube

UFOs are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the form of a popular female singer. It/she warns mankind that a meteor will crash on Earth. While the approaching meteor causes hotter and hotter weather, mankind runs and builds a last-chance anti-meteo. Info on Warning from Space / IMDB / YouTube

An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen. Learn about The Gamma People / IMDB / YouTube

Connie Hayward mounts an expedition into the Himalayan Mountains looking for her brother, who has not returned from a previous trek trying to locate the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman. Arriving at her brother's last-known camp Connie and her companions find only a strange old guide, Varga. They are soon attacked by gigantic Snowmen but are not half as surprised as when. Get info on Man Beast / IMDB / YouTube

A scientist is found floating with bullet and a radiation halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead of us in time. He teams up with a reporter to stop his double from destroying his experiments. Info on The Atomic Man / IMDB / YouTube

A two-part episode of the sci-fi TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1954), released as a feature. More about Menace from Outer Space / IMDB / YouTube

Woody Woodpecker is a guest at a television show and walks off with a space helmet and a space gun as souvenirs. He pretends to be a man from Mars, and is believed to the extent that he is caught and sent to an atomic laboratory for testing, which convinces the scientists he does belong on Mars. They send him to Mars on a rocket-ship and, once there, the Martians are . Learn about Woodpecker from Mars / IMDB / YouTube