Invaders from Mars (1953)
Directed by William Cameron Menzies
A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.
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What critics compared Invaders from Mars to
One of the film's final images is a half-lift from the somewhat kitschy William Cameron Menzies -directed classic " Invaders From Mars ," which exploits childhood trauma in a way that surely inspired Breathed's vision.
It's a film packed to bursting with golden nuggets of surprise, humor, and pathos, though it bears noting that the film runs a track vaguely similar to Spielberg's E.T.. That's not to say in any way that Bird's film is a simulacrum; both films owe a great deal to the classic sci-fi films of the Fifties, notably William Cameron Menzies' Invaders From Mars and Jack Arnold's It Came From Outer Space (both 1953 and both referenced in Bird's film).
Invaders from Mars has acquired quite a reputation over the years, thanks to the hand of its director/designer William Cameron Menzies, whose bona fides included a designer's Academy Award for Gone With the Wind and director credits such as Things to Come and The Thief of Bagdad .