Alien invasion movies can get pretty dark. One needn't look further than the likes of A Quiet Place, or War of the Worlds, or Signs, or any hundreds of other films that play on humankind's fear of the other and otherworldly beings. In these films, humans are the unmistakable underdogs, and great efforts are made to have the audience root for our fellow Homo sapiens to overcome vastly technologically superior enemies and emerge triumphant, our home world intact. But it's never without sacrifice.
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