Invaders from Mars (1953)

A paranoid fever dream told from a child's height. A boy sees a saucer land behind his house, then watches his father, and soon his mother, turn cold and wrong. Director William Cameron Menzies builds sets with bare walls that stretch far too high, which makes the grown-up world feel like a nightmare. The Martians look homemade and the color is vivid in a strange, candy-bright way. British audiences got a different ending from Americans, so check which version you are watching.