The 25 Best Alien Movies of All Time, Ranked

It didn't take long for stories about extraterrestrials to reach our cinemas. George Méliès "A Trip to the Moon" introduced weird, easily explodable aliens called Selenites that capture the first explorers in outer space, and from there, filmmakers let their imaginations continue to run rampant. While science fiction wasn't always a popular genre, eventually fantastic tales of space creatures, friendly or monstrous or anything in between, became more mainstream, and eventually became reliable blockbuster material. But for every crowdpleasing tale of interplanetary warfare or . . .