Can someone name this movie?

I've been searching for a movie for a long time but I can't remember the name, who is in it, or who directed it. I do remember the plot though...

A kid sees a spaceship land one night and blablabla his teacher becomes an alien and eventually his parents become aliens too! Anyway, at the end of the movie after he defeats the aliens and everything is back to normal he wakes up as if the whole thing was a dream...he looks out his window and sees the same spaceship that was in his dream landing!

Please someone tell me the name of this movie if you can. It is the one and only reason I was afraid of aliens growing up and now I want it for my collection. Thanks in advance

Invaders from Mars (1986 - Tobe Hooper)

This is a remake of the 1953 movie of the same name, but I'm sure you're talking about the '80s version (one of his teachers, played by One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest's Louise Fletcher, is taken over in the newer version, but not the original).

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Is it any good?

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Not especially, no.

The original, which was released in 1953, three years before Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, has some low budget charm to it, and it's quite surreal. The monsters are laughable, but the scenes of the small boy not knowing which adults he can trust, like the scene at the police station, are pretty well done for what they are.

The remake tries to pay homage to the original, and the effects and monsters are a step up, for sure, but other than to a younger kid I don't know who would really be all that freaked out by Hooper's Invaders. Even something as standard and derivitive of the body snatching sub genre like Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty (1998) is a more satisfying viewing experience at this point.

The two Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the 1956 original and the 1978 remake, and John Carpenter's The Thing are far and away the best of this type of movie, and none of the others come close to that level.



Of course your mileage may vary. But then, you might be one of "them".

That scene at the end of the Body Snatchers remake with Donald Sutherland is emblazoned on my memory. It's one of the creepiest scenes I've ever made myself watch.

Yeah, I thought it was that! I saw it a while back with Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

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Yeah-Invaders from Mars, I remember that movie--things were implanted into the back of people's necks---no, the movie isn't all that great.

Man, I love this film. Tell me, did anyone else see incredible similarity between the screaming, running, pod people in the 78' remake, and the screaming, running zombies in 28 Days Later? And I thought the zombies in 28 Days Later were supposed to be fresh and new....

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Thanks for the answer guys...might not be a great movie but it's something I need for my collection