Weekly Poll Results: Best Alien Invasion Movie

Posted by on July 15th, 2009   Filed under: Polls

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I have a feeling a few of you are going to be ticked off about this one, but the votes are in and it looks like Predator has been named the best alien invasion movie by you, the readers of Film Junk! Just remember, you’ve got no one to blame but yourselves. (Okay, I’ll accept some of the blame for putting it on the list in the first place.) In retrospect, I agree that it’s a bit of a stretch to call Predator an alien invasion film… either way, I was surprised to see it beat out such choices as Independence Day, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and War of the Worlds. More importantly though… where’s the love for Killer Klowns from Outer Space? What’s wrong with you people?!

1. Predator — 19.3%
2. Independence Day — 13.8%
3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) — 13.2%
4. They Live — 12.9%
5. Signs — 12.1%
6. War of the Worlds (2005) — 8.3%
7. Mars Attacks — 8%
8. War of the Worlds (1953) — 6.1%
9. Slither — 3.6%
10. Killer Klowns from Outer Space — 2.8%



  • Matt Keith

    I’m a bit suprised that “The Thing” Remake wasn’t on the list.

  • Bob The Slob

    I agree with matt, the Thing should be on the list. I voted for predator simply because that movie is still one of the manliest punches to the face in cinema ever…They Live would have my choice for second place (in that list)

  • I mainly left The Thing off the list because I’m pretty sure it would have won hands down. I wanted to keep things interesting!

  • Jackson

    I think Independence Day would be an obvious choice for alien invasion favourite, however it’s a pretty annoying cheese filled movie with tons of unbelievable American patriot bullshit. Predator is much more entertaining fiction and has much better one liners. MAAAAAAAAACK!

  • Slushie Man

    I think I’m probably one of the only ones that voted for Killer Klowns, lol

  • They Live – Fantastic.
    Body Snatchers – Really fantastic.
    Predator – An invasion of one? Ok.

    Signs is one of the worst movies ever made. It is totally preposterous. A super-advanced alien civilization comes to earth to kidnap local organisms (us) but are foiled by… water.

    Yes. Water.

    Which is especially dangerous because THE ALIENS DONT WEAR CLOTHES. And apparently neglected to do even the smallest amount of research necesarry to deduce that 80% of the friggin planet they are invading is covered in, what? WATER.

    Yes, the super-advanced alien species criss-corssing the globe and abducting creatures from planets across the solar-system, presumably for thousands (millions) of years, is defeated by a 6 year old with a glass of water.

    So
    F’ing
    Stupid.

  • AlexG

    Don’t even start me on M. Night, he made a couple of decent movies and it was all down hill from then (although i do think the village is a bit underrated).
    I love Body Snatchers and Sutherland Sr in it, but my second choice would’ve been They Live too, such a great, campy-fun film.

  • BigHungry

    -Sean
    Good point on the thing and I’m surprised that “ID” ranked so high. Still scratching my head on that one. Now off topic a bit… I would rather see the Thing remake be a miniseries kind of like “band of brothers”! In-fact that would be a cool time for the story to take place – In the past. I think a miniseries would work better because you could spend more time getting to know the characters and wonder who is really still them as the story unfolds.

  • I’d just like to say that Signs rules. Easily my favourite M. Night film.

  • “The Thing” doesn’t satisfy Sean’s criteria for the invasion list because there was only one alien. It sort of doesn’t make sense that there would only be one alien, but we only saw one alien. And I don’t think we really know that the alien was invading rather than just having “crash landed” on Earth. A reason why the alien caused havoc on the base may be because it was just trying to survive.

  • Swarez

    If that was the case Reed then why did Sean put Predator in there?

  • “Predator” should be disqualified. So the winner is “Independence Day”!

  • Reed, I am guessing you didn’t vote. But let’s say you HAD voted… what would you vote for?

  • From your list, I would have voted for War of the Worlds (2005). I thought it was the most realistic. I liked Tom Cruise’s character of being the everyman who’s trying to hold his family together through the whole thing.

  • Rob

    Predator was ace.

    If I could remember the name of it, I saw an alien movie when I was little, 90% of it was set in a newsroom, and at the end the aliens invade the newsreaders start crying.

    Ring any bells?