Creatures from an alien civilisation are an everlasting source of fascination for movie-makers, who have attempted to imagine how an alien might look and behave. Try your hand at identifying some of their odder conceptions and the movies they came from â and click on to the following frame to see if you are right.
Who are these two?
a) Kif (and Calculon)
b) Klaatu (and Gort)
c) Morbo (and “the robot”)
b) Klaatu (and Gort)
Klaatu and his powerful robot Gort visited Earth in 1951, in the controversial .
In what film did this creature appear?
a) Star Trek
b) The First Men in the Moon
c) Space 1999
a) Star Trek
This is the salt creature that killed Star Trek crew members in the first-season episode âThe Man Trapâ, by sucking all the salt from their bodies. A shape changer, this is what the creature looked like in its original form.
Which movie featured aliens like this one?
a) This Island Earth
b) Invasion of the Saucer Men
c) Them!
b) Invasion of the Saucer Men
These aliens originally appeared in 1957 in . The film was later remade as The Eye Creatures.
What’s the name of this creature?
a) B.O.B.
b) Camille
c) The Blob
c) The Blob
Indescribable… indestructible… insatiable â crept and crawled onto our screens in 1958, eating its way through poor B-movie extras to become a classic sci-fi icon.
Who is this character?
a) General Martok
b) Predator
c) Zuckuss
b) Predator
Now you see him, now you donât. Itâs the original Predator from 1987.
What is this creature called?
a) Ood
b) Prawn
c) Legion
b) Prawn
âPrawnâ is the derogatory term for the extraterrestrial refugees in the 2009 hit District 9.
