Invaders From Mars 4K Blu-ray
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Posted April 13, 2026 10:21 PM by Webmaster
The British Film Institute has provided final details for its upcoming 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases of William Cameron Menzies;Invaders From Mars (1953), starring Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson, and Hillary Brooke. The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on May 11.
Things to Come director William Cameron Menzies' 1953 film terrified Cold War-era audiences upon release with its chilling vision of an insidious alien attack on small-town America. A sci-fi cinema landmark, Invaders From Mars has inspired filmmakers as varied as Don Coscarelli (Phantasm), Brad Bird (The Iron Giant) and John Carpenter (The Thing). Now fully restored in 4K, this Atomic Age classic is ready to unleash its spine-tingling terror upon a new generation of film fans. On 11 May it comes to both 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray formats, released by the BFI with numerous special features including a newly recorded audio commentary by Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw and a new video essay.
After young David McLean (Jimmy Hunt, Pitfall) witnesses a flying saucer crash near his home, the local townsfolk, including his parents, start acting strangely. David convinces government official Dr Blake (Helena Carter, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye) and astronomer Dr Kelston (Arthur Franz, The Caine Mutiny) that something is awry – but can these unlikely heroes thwart a full-blown invasion from space?
Special features and Technical Specs:
Things to Come director William Cameron Menzies' 1953 film terrified Cold War-era audiences upon release with its chilling vision of an insidious alien attack on small-town America. A sci-fi cinema landmark, Invaders From Mars has inspired filmmakers as varied as Don Coscarelli (Phantasm), Brad Bird (The Iron Giant) and John Carpenter (The Thing). Now fully restored in 4K, this Atomic Age classic is ready to unleash its spine-tingling terror upon a new generation of film fans. On 11 May it comes to both 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray formats, released by the BFI with numerous special features including a newly recorded audio commentary by Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw and a new video essay.
After young David McLean (Jimmy Hunt, Pitfall) witnesses a flying saucer crash near his home, the local townsfolk, including his parents, start acting strangely. David convinces government official Dr Blake (Helena Carter, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye) and astronomer Dr Kelston (Arthur Franz, The Caine Mutiny) that something is awry – but can these unlikely heroes thwart a full-blown invasion from space?
Special features and Technical Specs:
- TWO-DISC (4K BLU-RAY/BLU-RAY) COMBO PACK RELEASE
- 4K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE AND MASTER POSITIVES
- HDR10 PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- NEW recorded audio commentary by Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw
- NEW Not Just a Dream: Designing Hope in Invaders From Mars (2026, 16 mins): filmmaker Nic Wassell explores how legendary production designer and director William Cameron Menzies infuses the paranoia of atomic age science fiction with hope for the future
- William Cameron Menzies: Architect of Dreams (2022, 16 mins): Menzies' biographer James Curtis interviews the director's granddaughter Pamela Lauesen
- Jimmy Hunt Saves the Planet (2022, 11 mins): interview with the actor
- Terror From Above (2022, 22 mins): filmmakers John Landis and Joe Dante, editor Mark Goldblatt, visual effects artist Robert Skotak and preservationist Scott MacQueen discuss the film
- Restoring the Invasion (2022, 7 mins): before and after clips of the restoration
- TCM Festival Introduction (2022, 7 mins): by John Sayles
- Ernest Dickerson on Invaders From Mars (2022, 5 mins): the award-winning cinematographer introduces a new trailer
- European observatory sequence (1953, 9 mins)
- European ending (1953, 3 mins)
- Original 1953 trailer
- 2022 trailer
- Extensive image gallery including posters, press book pages and publicity materials, plus previously unseen images from the BFI National Archive
- First pressing only: Illustrated booklet featuring new writing on the film by Dr Deborah Allison and Barry Forshaw, a short piece from Monthly Film Bulletin, November 1954, notes on the special features and film credits
