Home > Creative Content > Movies These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying, possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life It didn’t take long for stories about extraterrestrials to reach our cinemas. George Méliès “A Trip to the Moon” introduced weird, easily explodable aliens called Selenites that capture the first explorers in outer space, and from there, filmmakers let their imaginations continue to run rampant. While science fiction wasn’t always a