Invasion! The best and worst alien takeovers in film and TV

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There’s plenty of buzz that ‘District 9’ (opening August 14) is an especially original take on the grand old theme of extraterrestrial visitation. In the Neill Blomfield film the crawfish-faced aliens are marooned on earth and end up in grim barbed-wire slum. That goes against the more familiar Hollywood tradition of all-out alien invasion, be it sneaky (‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’), audacious (‘Independence Day’) or just loopy (‘Mars Attacks!’). Here’s a photo gallery looking back on the good, the bad and the ugly: The Best and Worst Alien Invasions.

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