Top 20 Science Fiction Movie Trailers from the 1950s
Whether you first watched them in the sanctum of a darkened theater or on the cracked screen of your phone, movie trailers still deliver the tantalizing thrill of that first glimpse of a beloved film that would become as big a part of your life as crippling social anxiety. Looking back on the golden age of sci-fi cinema through our favorite trailers, we struck a balance between sneak peeks at timeless classics and breathless examples of the trailer itself as a spellbinding capsule far more entertaining than the forgettable film. They’re a hyper-condensed panorama of our dreams of the future and fears for the present; but no matter how hard we searched, we found exactly ZERO trailers for a perfect future where anything works.
The button-down, paranoid 1950’s were all about the Invading Other. Runaway suns, giant bugs and interstellar Communists were coming for our freedom, and could only be stopped by the same reckless super-science that created or called each rampaging monster of the week down from the stars. Hyperbolic narration and flashy graphics harangued us into submission, while cascades of epic mass destruction kept us riveted for another trip to the drive-in.
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Thing From Another World (1951)
Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
Invaders From Mars (1953)
War Of The Worlds (1953)
It Came From Outer Space (1953)
Robot Monster (1953)
This Island Earth (1955)
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (1956)
20 Million Miles To Earth (1957)
The Mysterians (1957)
It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958)
Queen Of Outer Space (1958)
Battle In Outer Space (1959)
Return Of The Fly (1959)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
The Blob (1958)
Devil Girl From Mars (1954) U.K.
Top 20 Science Fiction Movie Trailers from the 1950s
Whether you first watched them in the sanctum of a darkened theater or on the cracked screen of your phone, movie trailers still deliver the tantalizing thrill of that first glimpse of a beloved film that would become as big a part of your life as crippling social anxiety. Looking back on the golden age of sci-fi cinema through our favorite trailers, we struck a balance between sneak peeks at timeless classics and breathless examples of the trailer itself as a spellbinding capsule far more entertaining than the forgettable film. They’re a hyper-condensed panorama of our dreams of the future and fears for the present; but no matter how hard we searched, we found exactly ZERO trailers for a perfect future where anything works.
The button-down, paranoid 1950’s were all about the Invading Other. Runaway suns, giant bugs and interstellar Communists were coming for our freedom, and could only be stopped by the same reckless super-science that created or called each rampaging monster of the week down from the stars. Hyperbolic narration and flashy graphics harangued us into submission, while cascades of epic mass destruction kept us riveted for another trip to the drive-in.
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Thing From Another World (1951)
Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
Invaders From Mars (1953)
War Of The Worlds (1953)
It Came From Outer Space (1953)
Robot Monster (1953)
This Island Earth (1955)
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (1956)
20 Million Miles To Earth (1957)
The Mysterians (1957)
It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958)
Queen Of Outer Space (1958)
Battle In Outer Space (1959)
Return Of The Fly (1959)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
The Blob (1958)
Devil Girl From Mars (1954) U.K.
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Whether you first watched them in the sanctum of a darkened theater or on the cracked screen of your phone, movie trailers still deliver the tantalizing thrill of that first glimpse of a beloved film that would become as big a part of your life as crippling social anxiety. Looking back on the golden age of sci-fi cinema through our favorite trailers, we struck a balance between sneak peeks at timeless classics and breathless examples of the trailer itself as a spellbinding capsule far more entertaining than the forgettable film. They’re a hyper-condensed panorama of our dreams of the future and fears for the present; but no matter how hard we searched, we found exactly ZERO trailers for a perfect future where anything works.
The button-down, paranoid 1950’s were all about the Invading Other. Runaway suns, giant bugs and interstellar Communists were coming for our freedom, and could only be stopped by the same reckless super-science that created or called each rampaging monster of the week down from the stars. Hyperbolic narration and flashy graphics harangued us into submission, while cascades of epic mass destruction kept us riveted for another trip to the drive-in.
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Thing From Another World (1951)
Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
Invaders From Mars (1953)
War Of The Worlds (1953)
It Came From Outer Space (1953)
Robot Monster (1953)
This Island Earth (1955)
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (1956)
20 Million Miles To Earth (1957)
The Mysterians (1957)
It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958)
Queen Of Outer Space (1958)
Battle In Outer Space (1959)
Return Of The Fly (1959)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
The Blob (1958)
Devil Girl From Mars (1954) U.K.
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