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The Last Star is a 2016 young adult science-fiction novel by Rick Yancey and the third volume in The 5th Wave trilogy. It continues the story of Cassie Sullivan and other human survivors as they face the consequences of an alien invasion that has destabilized human society. The novel combines surviv...
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Professional reviews were decent, but audience response is notably divided, with the ending widely seen as unsatisfying.
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Alien: Resurrection is a 1997 science-fiction horror film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and written by Joss Whedon. Set two centuries after the events of Alien 3, it follows a genetically recreated Ellen Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver, aboard a military research vessel where scientists are bree...
UFO Abduction, also known as The McPherson Tape, is a 1989 science fiction horror film directed by Dean Alioto. Presented as recovered home video, it depicts a family gathering disrupted by an encounter with hostile extraterrestrials. Its low-budget domestic setting, handheld camerawork, and mockume...
Flying Disc Man from Mars is a 1950 American science-fiction film serial released by Republic Pictures and directed by Fred C. Brannon. Its story follows an alien threat to Earth and reflects early atomic-age popular culture, which often connected space travel, advanced weapons, and fears of invasio...
Phoenix Forgotten is a 2017 American science-fiction found-footage film produced by Ridley Scott. It follows three teenagers who disappear in 1997 while investigating the Phoenix Lights, a series of reported lights seen over Arizona. The film presents the story through recovered recordings and later...
The Garden of Rama is a science-fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee, published in 1991. It is the third book in the four-volume Rama series, following Rama II and preceding Rama Revealed. The story continues the experiences of humans connected with the cylindrical alien spacecraft Rama...
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Offers expansive Rama world-building but is widely criticized for melodrama, implausible behavior, sexual content, overlength, and diminished mystery.
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Race to Witch Mountain is a 2009 science-fiction adventure film released by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by Andy Fickman. It follows a Las Vegas taxi driver who helps two extraterrestrial siblings escape government agents and other pursuers. The film is a contemporary reworking of Disney's 1975...
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Routine Disney sci-fi remake with some action appeal, but critics found it generic and forgettable.
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Alien Abduction is a 2014 American science-fiction horror film made in the found-footage style. Its story follows a family on a camping trip in North Carolina that becomes a struggle for survival after an encounter with extraterrestrial beings. The film draws on the regional legend of the Brown Moun...
Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County is a 1998 American pseudo-documentary horror television film directed by Dean Alioto and broadcast by UPN. Presented as home-video footage recovered from a missing family, it depicts an extraterrestrial attack during Thanksgiving in Lake County, Montana. The...
Rama Revealed is a science-fiction novel published in 1993 and credited to Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee. It is the fourth book in the Rama series, following the novels that began with Rendezvous with Rama. The story continues the human encounters with the enormous alien spacecraft known as Rama a...
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Provides definitive series answers and closure, yet consensus faults excessive exposition, weak characterization, religious overtones, and an unsatisfying demystification.
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Marvin Marvin is a Nickelodeon television show centered around Lucas Cruikshank's portrayal of Marvin Forman, an alien teenager adjusting to life in suburban America. The single-season sitcom explores themes of adolescence and cultural differences through a science fiction lens. It’s primarily aimed...
Final Days of Planet Earth is a 2006 American science-fiction television film directed by Robert Lieberman. Its story follows a growing threat to human civilization that is connected to an alien or otherwise unexplained force, combining elements of disaster fiction, invasion drama, and speculative s...
The Phoenix Incident is a US science-fiction horror film written and directed by Keith Arem, with international release beginning in 2015. It uses a documentary and recovered-footage structure to fictionalize the disappearance of four men near Phoenix, Arizona, on the night of the 1997 Phoenix Light...
Planet 51 is a 2009 animated science-fiction comedy produced by the Spanish studio Ilion Animation Studios and directed by Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad, and Marcos Martinez. The story reverses the usual alien-invasion setup: American astronaut Chuck Baker lands on a world inhabited by small green peopl...
Skinwalker Ranch is a 2013 American found-footage science-fiction horror film directed by Devin McGinn and Steve Berg. It follows a scientific research team documenting unexplained phenomena after a Utah rancher's young son disappears, using the name and folklore associated with the real Skinwalker...
Alien Origin is a 2012 American science-fiction horror film produced by The Asylum and written and directed by Mark Atkins. It uses a found-footage framework: a military unit and journalist Julia Evans travel into the jungles of Belize after an archaeology team disappears, and recovered recordings r...
