It Came from Outer Space (1953)

Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...

Genres: Science Fiction, Horror

What to watch after It Came from Outer Space

• Tarantula (1955) — Same subject: small town
• When Worlds Collide (1951) — Barbara Rush appears in both
• The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) — Ray Bradbury worked on both
• The Thing from Another World (1951) — Two steps away in the credits
• Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) — Jack Arnold directed both
• This Island Earth (1955) — Same subject: spacecraft