From whispered campfire stories to late-night talk radio, alien abduction tales dig under the skin in a way few sci-fi subgenres can. They turn the infinite mystery of the cosmos into something ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

Multiple car chases are worse than in Spielberg’s US cinema debut The Sugarland Express (1974), bar a nerve-jangling shunt into a train’s path, with Margaret’s subsequent panic attack in a ...

This film was better than I was expecting. It is an intriguing mixture of softcore erotica and alien abduction story. The cinematography by Adolfo Bartoli is simply wonderful. The actings are decent ...

I’m standing in front of what looks, at first glance, like a colorful stone counter frozen mid-shift in an ancient workday. Only after a closer look does it become clear that this “snack bar” in ...

Most modern stars fit a prototype. Clark Gable begat George Clooney, Robert Redford passed a torch to Brad Pitt, Katharine Hepburn paved the way for Cate Blanchett. But Emma Stone has no precedent on ...

We begin with an alien abduction movie that is perfect for kids in "Elio." Also, "The Life of Chuck" gets a grade that I rarely give. But we start with the third installment in the zombie genre ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. There has never been a worse time to be a UFO skeptic. Last month, Sean ...

The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch tracks the exploration of Utah’s infamous Skinwalker Ranch, the world’s most intriguing hot spot for UFO and high strangeness events. It is a television series on the ...

In May 1978, a 71-year-old peasant from the small village of Emilcin in eastern Poland began telling a story about how he met aliens and was taken onto their spacecraft. He never renounced it. Even ...

Some of my greatest memories as a kid involve sitting cross-legged in front of the television obsessively watching The X-Files while my mother braided my hair. The show had a lot that captured my ...