In my opinion the scariest part is how humanity acts. Further into the movie you see a legit crowd of people trying to get in 1 car and you see people using their bare hands to break the car glass open just to get in and *try* to survive.
Yeah I agree. Aliens is bad enough but it’s how other humans act that really scares me. Particularly because while I can’t say for sure if their real, humans definitely are and definitely do horrible things
> But humans are just walking apes that are trained by a civilized environment to behave in a certain way. - Take that environment away & they will mostly revert to their jungle roots. With a few exceptions.
"Never before in the history of the world had such a mass of human beings moved and suffered together. This was no disciplined march - it was a stampede - without order and without a goal, six million people unarmed and unprovisioned, driving headlong. It was the beginning of the rout of civilization, of the massacre of mankind."
Actually the most terrifying thing is the fact that the machines sole existence is the extraction of human blood to use as fertilizer. It’s like a twisted form of gardening.
@@4YrStasisThe collectors are the Protheans indoctrinated working for the Reapers. I'm also sure the Reapers were partially inspired by the War of the Worlds 2005 tripods.
The scariest part for me was right after this scene and right before the dad gets captured into the Tripod baskets, where he looks out from a hill and all you can see for as far as you can see is just red land and dark skies...
Someone commented once something that makes sense to me they said that they make these noises cuz they have learned that humans are terrified of animals that have a loud aggressive sound and they implement their tripods to scare humans as a morality destroyer and to cause fear and panic
An alien civilization that’s millions of years old has probably evolved a ton over a million years. So when you think about it if they planted the tripods here ~10k years ago chances are while their current technology would be marginally better, it may not be so superior where we would notice the difference much considering how far advanced they are to us.
@@mclohan they're so advanced that they have heat rays that can destroy an M1 Abrams, catch houses and trees on fire and evaporate people. But it won't do anything to jeans or clothing (are they trying to wear the cloths? Idk the world may never know)
The fact that Tom Cruise is a scientologist is the scariest part of this movie. I'm kidding, this movie just builds anxiety and fear in me on an unreal level.
The part for me is in the beginning, the news mentions the flashes starting in Ukraine, then mentions of the tremors. They metioned it as "reports" meaning that no true word from an actual media source had confirmed the tremors. Yet, we know what happened directly after wards when Ray first encounters one of the tripods. Meaning that in Europe many noticed the lightning and tremors but couldnt warn about the machines since the EMPS fried any source of communication. Basically, they were already attacking but nobody knew that full extent.
Also, don't forget about the scene where they're on their way to the ferry and a man says there's nothing going on in Europe, and then the second man replies that Europe got the worst of it. Since Europe was attacked first, it could make sense how they got the worst. And maybe the man that said there's nothing going on in Europe thought that nothing happened there because of them not being able to warn anyone and then him thinking, "Hmm. We've heard nothing from there so there's nothing happening."
That sound is exactly the sound described by the man himself, HG Wells. The tripod design and relatively faithful adaption of the source material made this movie the best WOTW for me.
i think the engine sound is the scariest part of the movie... the idea of hiding in your house at night while hearing that huge machines walking around is so creepy and scary...
Also a scary fact, it is mentioned in the book and movie that the tripods are thousands of years old that have been recollected from the aliens, so if this is their millennium-old technology, imagine what they have now
Nope. It’s stated that their technology “has been long perfected millions of years ago and does not undergo change”. It the books they can only change the way they use it. They invented everything they needed already, so they lost their ability to invent. That’s why we have a slight leg up on them when they come back for the second invasion. We didn’t have planes in the first invention, and then the aliens come back 15 years later and we buzzing around like flies, and that leap in tech in such a short time actually dazed them and we were able to take down a few more tripods
Massacre of mankind. Official sequel to war of the worlds. When the martians return, they have no new tech but they use it differently by using different strategies. For example, all the martians land at once in the sequel, rather than one at a time
It’s a cool theme in sci-fi: although we are less tech advanced, we are still in the “inventing” stage in our journey. It’s what gives us that cinematic edge when up against far more advanced species.
True story The film crew couldn’t took all the fake bodies from the river and some of them make the local people panicking because they assumed they been real
I always thought it was a phycological weapon. Like the horns on the Stuka bombers in ww2. They are out there solely to frighten the enemy and it works.
This movie and Cloverfield still give me chills everytime I watch them. It’s the sense of nostalgia that does it for me, and also because I just always loved these movies
I've never seen Cloverfield. But my all time alien film is District 9. My god that movie is so perfectly done. But I will check out Cloverfield for sure.
It has always been their "calling" or "horn" as some people describe it Just as soon as you hear it. You know are f*cked and dead I had nightmares about those machines when i was 13 or 14 because of those damn tripods and thank God my nightmare is being made into a game
Same I had a nightmare that I was alone and one of the tripods saw me and was coming after me and no matter where I ran and hid it knew where to find me.
For me, tha scariest thing is that, in the movie humanity were extremly lucky. If we didn't got those bacteria what killed the Martians, than humanity would be wiped out. And it's not quite a plot hole that, how does the Matians didn't know about the germs? Simple! If You watching the movie, paying all the attention, the movie said why! At the beggining and at the end, let me explain where: At the beggining, it said they were watching us, for millions and millions of years, that means they watch how the life evolved, the machine probably were put on Earth, when the first lifes began, back then were other germs, maybe they prepared for that type of germs that were extinct, and not know there was a new kind of germs, like ourselfs, we watch daily over mars, moon and other planets, but we dont know for sure or we dont know anything what's exatcly there. If it was reversed, and we would be the martians, it would be the same fate, we would die from something we didn't know exactly. At the end, said, in the moment, when they arrived, they had been doomed , affected. This whole incident was taken in fall, when the most people get sick and release the most germs in the AIR. So yea, maybe i'm wrong, or maybe not, but yea, in the movie the scariest thing was we got extremly lucky.
@@B.I.GShady- It's still a major plothole that needs addressing - a civilization so vastly superior to our own in practically every way would not conclude that exposure to billions of unknown pathogens and microbes on a planet you haven't visited for "millions of years" without any precaution or protection - isn't a particularly good idea. Even us a pathetic little humans could figure this one out ..
@@yippeeki-yay1691in the book, it was stated how their own advancements were their downfall When disease and pathogens have been eradicated for millions of years, any civilization may come to forget of them as a threat, and in the case of the Tripods they simply couldn’t have accounted for a variable that they haven’t perceived as a threat for millions of years.
Here's something Horrifying I've noticed In the Ferry scene we get a Look at what I always called The Overwatch Class Tripod (Flips the ferry over) and the Harvester Class tripod (abduct people) In that scene we notice the Red cross asking people with certain blood type to please keep donating which almost everyone seems to be doing. (Important for later) The Exterminator Class Tripods (basically the First one seen in the movie) Zaps everyone with the Bad blood types. And let's people with the good Blood Live (Including Ray and his Kids and 95% of the people in the Ferry scene.) When Ray and his kids Swim to shore and the camera Pans to the Area they came from you can see the Harvester Class tripods harvesting people while the Overwatch tripods In the Small city Barely Fire their lasers Implying Very few Bad blood People are left and probably are Locals to that small city Or aren't shooting as there's too many people with the Right bloody type near them which can cause collateral damage to the much needed right blood type. Also in that same scene everyone who escaped the Harvester class tripods didn't escape because they were quick. It was simply due to them having the bad blood type. Hence why the overwatch tripods vaporized them. Long rant/Run on sentence 😂 I know but a neat detail I've taken a notice too.
they were very coordinated, that whole ferry scene was an ambush and a really good one as well. you can tell those aliens sent the best of the best for this invasion they planned out (except the part where bacteria can eliminate them)
I praise you for also voicing your opinion cuz I thought it was just me tripping when I saw that the tripod that flipped over the ferry was twice as large as the one we saw at the start this detail also nods to the novel having different classes of machines for different reasons
What freaked me out the most as a kid was how there was no escaping. No matter where you went or what you did the tripods always somehow followed. The second you heard that terrifying horn, you knew you had to run, but what got me the fact that anywhere you ran…you know you’ll be hearing that noise again. Also the bodies in river scarred me for a very long time, it was just so creepy see the bodies slowly float. This movie imo is underrated. I also always would’ve loved to see the perspective of the military. We only see them glimpses, they seem to be holding their own, but we never know how or why
The scariest thing for me was that during the battle scene between the army and the tripods, the commander on the radio says that their weapons are ineffective. They were hitting the tripods with everything they had knowing they were all gonna die so the refugees could make it past their lines to try and get away to safety. Imagine being in that situation KNOWING you’re giving everything you’ve got but you’re inevitably going to die and your efforts aren’t even slowing the tripods down.
If science fiction films have taught us anything is that if you travel between the stars, most likely you're going to need some form of protection for your mother craft and other vehicles you conduct your exploration or in most cases invasion of the target world. A powerful metallurgy like titanium-A on your hull or energy shielding If you're moving through space and anything the size of like a speck of dust hits you, it impact and the same force as a nuclear weapon.
Everyone knows the true tripod sound is UULAAAAH But seriously though the sound of the capsule unscrewing at the beginning of Horsell Common and the Heat Ray gives me chills
For me it's specifically the scene after the boat is flipped, and there are hundreds of people running down those hills, their screams echoing for miles.
The scariest part for me is the breakdown of the veneer of civil behaviour into everyone for themselves or their own. Quite obvious with the symbols of law and order being overrun and rendered meaningless in the face of unknown terror.
some people got together (the time they were all trapped in the tripod cage and helped Ray escape) while others (the car jacking scene) got violent with each other
@@Maxx-ib6nr My theory. When faced with absolute *certain* death, humans know when to come together and strategize to avoid that fate. However, when faced with *uncertainty* and allowing fear mixed with impatience to override our mind, we tend to scatter and maul each other to survive (survival of the fittest instincts come to play). Moral of the story: stay calm, cool and collected and lone wolf is always better than safety in numbers. Each has better advantages regarding on the scenario/circumstance at hand. Ex. Ray was playing lone wolf with the car and was singled out..right? Had it been that he and family were among the crowd, would they have been noticed? Anyway he needed the car to get to that point lol
Two of my favorite scenes are the train crossing and the train passes by at full speed fully on fire. And when they’re at the ferry crossing and Dakota Fanning looks back and sees the trees moving and the bird flying away and you see the tripods in the background approaching. Such great cinematography
For me that sends me chills is, "wherever you go, they are there, killing, & you just watching it all, not wanting to but just need to see it. Maybe they'll get you too"
The thing that annoyed me the most is that the military didn't try to go inside the tripod's shield proximity And take it out inside it's shield, I can even see how small there shield proximity
There's actually concept art of the Military downing a Tripod by setting up an explosive rig below the surface. They bait a Tripod to walk over it and detonate it, not only leaving a massive crater, but tripoing the Tripod. The Tripod survived and another Tripod came along and dragged it out of the hole. I really wish the concept art would have been implemented, because the whole 'hill fight' was sketched out in detail, and it was pretty xlear the Tripods weren't even trying through 99% of the movie
The scariest part about War of the Worlds is that when HG Wells wrote it back in the 1890s he was putting the civilized world in the position that they put indigenous peoples in the world over. As he himself explained in the opening of the Novel, pointing to Tasmania , the Americas and other places. With biochemistry in its early stages of infancy, Wells brilliantly questioned what would happen to to human immune system if we found a cure for everything and reversed the plague situation experienced by so many colonized Societies, placing it on the Martians, who are a parable of the British Empire itself. Also the effects bringing plants from Europe had on the ecosystems of places such as North America, European grasses, alone, were quite devastating. Quite brilliant and insightful well ahead of its time. The scariest part of War of the Worlds is that it's truth is as timeless as George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." and people still fail to act to avert the problems addressed in these Masterpieces, the first of which was published 126 years ago. Now that's scary. War of the Worlds is on par with
The scariest thing for me was in fact the lasers but just because they transform human life an entire individuell or 100ts with all their dreams and love in to ash in secconds .. normaly you can say its very human to get killed this way ... but it was soo inhuman to me... i watched this movie with my mother as a children in Germany in the Cinema and it was the first movie where i turned my eyes away because of the lasers.. it was so dark to me. .. But than i developed other feelings like how ray and his daughter were in the basement of the house.. watching the tripods doing their work like its industrial harvesting.. all the sounds of the pumps and the spraying and the processing of the ground before pumping .. the red juice out ... it was so logic and ice cold you know ... that was soo scary and i really was interessted in to these aliens i was sad that its just one movie with so much lack of informations but is at the same time an important part of the recept for the film.
the director's idea initially was that his aliens were mysterious so he doesn't have much information about them, so much so that we don't even know if they came from a mother ship or teleportation.
@@nandes7998 yeah thats awesome, and a very important part of the film to created these atmosphere, but at the same time, you wanna know more, knowing that it would literally destroy the entire film. 😂
I watched this when I was like 6…and I was obsessed with it for days!! This Film is a masterpiece but it was also very scary…but I love it! I’m pretty sure at the beginning it said “based on a true story” and that gave me chills..
I'm so glad there's a Fallout 3 mod for these things. It always bothered me that Zeta didn't feel like it had much connection to the game aside from the previously placed Theta ship. So having more alien stuff was really fun.
@@johanneabelsen1644 The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national warning system in the United States designed to allow authorized officials to broadcast emergency alerts and warning messages to the public via cable, satellite and broadcast television and both AM, FM and satellite radio. Informally, Emergency Alert System is sometimes conflated with its mobile phone counterpart Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), a different but related system. However, both the EAS and WEA, among other systems, are coordinated under the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). The EAS, and more broadly IPAWS, allows federal, state, and local authorities to efficiently broadcast emergency alert and warning messages across multiple channels.[1] The EAS became operational on January 1, 1997, after being approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in November 1994,[2] replacing the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS), and largely supplanted Local Access Alert systems, though Local Access Alert systems are still used from time to time. Its main improvement over the EBS, and perhaps its most distinctive feature, is its application of a digitally encoded audio signal known as Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME), which is responsible for the characteristic "screeching" or "chirping" sounds at the start and end of each message. The first signal is the "header" which encodes, among other information, the alert type and locations, or the specific area that should receive the message. The last short burst marks the end-of-message. These signals are read by specialized encoder-decoder equipment. This design allows for automated station-to-station relay of alerts to only the area the alert was intended for.
@johanneabelsen1644 Emergency Alert System. The test for it comes over TV and radio waves at least once a month. Here in America, at least. Equivalent of an Air Raid siren test.
The walking sound and the horn is what got to me growing up. And the fact everything you think of that could help you escape did no single bit of help as well as thw military weapons do no damage, and how humanity turned amongst themselves to do whatever they can to survive The ferry boat scene got to me the most
A book I highly recommend is called map of the sky and also map of time(since it comes first). Basically map of the sky is H.G. Wells living through War of the Worlds himself.
The most suspenseful part to me was when they were in the basement and the tripod's probe showed up. I couldn't stop imagining it peeking into my room! Thankfully, I was soon not nervous anymore because I imagined it gaining legs and dancing to make it funny, and that helped 😂😂
For those who don't know, there is a War of the Worlds survival game being developed right now. You can see some gameplay and it looks amazing and terrifying.
Uhh that's not soundtrack, it's the sound design of the tripods
Personally, I liked the costume design of the tripods.
@@rabidmonk5 I'm pretty sure it's called CGI
Mmmm you know it papi
@@dolefinz0789 wtf
@@dolefinz0789 this is an comment section sir
In my opinion the scariest part is how humanity acts. Further into the movie you see a legit crowd of people trying to get in 1 car and you see people using their bare hands to break the car glass open just to get in and *try* to survive.
Yeah I agree. Aliens is bad enough but it’s how other humans act that really scares me. Particularly because while I can’t say for sure if their real, humans definitely are and definitely do horrible things
> But humans are just walking apes that are trained by a civilized environment to behave in a certain way.
- Take that environment away & they will mostly revert to their jungle roots. With a few exceptions.
That scene is so powerful, even after they leave the car and enter the diner people are still fighting for that car. Says so much about desperation
Actually taken from the OG 1898 novel. A family was attacked by people trying to steal their horse and cart and several was shot trying to escape.
"Never before in the history of the world had such a mass of human beings moved and suffered together. This was no disciplined march - it was a stampede - without order and without a goal, six million people unarmed and unprovisioned, driving headlong. It was the beginning of the rout of civilization, of the massacre of mankind."
Actually the most terrifying thing is the fact that the machines sole existence is the extraction of human blood to use as fertilizer. It’s like a twisted form of gardening.
I thought it was genetic material they were harvesting
Right it’s like there using the humans blood as part of their habit being that they were trying to take over
@@4YrStasisthat’s more like the Reapers from Mass Effect.
@@ReveredDead I thought it was the collectors
@@4YrStasisThe collectors are the Protheans indoctrinated working for the Reapers. I'm also sure the Reapers were partially inspired by the War of the Worlds 2005 tripods.
The scariest part for me was right after this scene and right before the dad gets captured into the Tripod baskets, where he looks out from a hill and all you can see for as far as you can see is just red land and dark skies...
Yup
It becomes even scarier when you realize that sound is actually the tripods communicating.
Someone commented once something that makes sense to me they said that they make these noises cuz they have learned that humans are terrified of animals that have a loud aggressive sound and they implement their tripods to scare humans as a morality destroyer and to cause fear and panic
Tripod: hi mothafrickas
Humans: aHh ScWaRY sOuND
They don't have some sorta radio, if they're so advanced? They don't have to alert everyone up that they're coming.
@@SpaceReptilioidEh, it's multifunctional as a way to communicate and intimidation.
It's actually a battle cry which is even more badass
That horn still fills my heart with dread to this day.
Mine too it goes straight through you
ULLAH!!!
Yep. And the sound they make when they start moving. This movie is still one of the scariest to me.
That's the bit when you KNEW shit got real.
I think it's a wonderful sound
Also the tripods are ancient technology, could (you) imagine their current tripods/technology
Yk… I never thought of that- ._.
Well damn.
It’s crazy because the tripods they use are to much for our technology, but they are museum technology used millions of years ago
An alien civilization that’s millions of years old has probably evolved a ton over a million years. So when you think about it if they planted the tripods here ~10k years ago chances are while their current technology would be marginally better, it may not be so superior where we would notice the difference much considering how far advanced they are to us.
@@mclohan they're so advanced that they have heat rays that can destroy an M1 Abrams, catch houses and trees on fire and evaporate people. But it won't do anything to jeans or clothing (are they trying to wear the cloths? Idk the world may never know)
The fact that Tom Cruise is a scientologist is the scariest part of this movie.
I'm kidding, this movie just builds anxiety and fear in me on an unreal level.
He probably thought it was L Ron Hubbard coming back.
The feeling of hopelessness was what was scary to me. If you noticed they took out every type of transportation train plane automobile and ship
And their dependence on technology is what killed them.
@@AzimuthPrime true
@ynok *resistance
agreed 💯
Scariest part about the Martian invasion is surviving the initial wave of attack and then trying to survive the wasteland in their wake.
What gave me PTSD was the sound they made as they start to move.
The part for me is in the beginning, the news mentions the flashes starting in Ukraine, then mentions of the tremors. They metioned it as "reports" meaning that no true word from an actual media source had confirmed the tremors. Yet, we know what happened directly after wards when Ray first encounters one of the tripods. Meaning that in Europe many noticed the lightning and tremors but couldnt warn about the machines since the EMPS fried any source of communication. Basically, they were already attacking but nobody knew that full extent.
Also, don't forget about the scene where they're on their way to the ferry and a man says there's nothing going on in Europe, and then the second man replies that Europe got the worst of it. Since Europe was attacked first, it could make sense how they got the worst. And maybe the man that said there's nothing going on in Europe thought that nothing happened there because of them not being able to warn anyone and then him thinking, "Hmm. We've heard nothing from there so there's nothing happening."
The probe scene is what got me
@@coreyrattliff8121word of mouth is always the most unreliable source of information
Right so the reports in Ukraine were real or does things that are real only happen in america?
If im not mistaken the original story takes place in Europe, maybe this is an homage of the movie to this?
That sound is exactly the sound described by the man himself, HG Wells. The tripod design and relatively faithful adaption of the source material made this movie the best WOTW for me.
Agree completely. Red weed, drinking blood, a heat ray and baskets for grabbing people. Al-ooo indeed.
i think the engine sound is the scariest part of the movie... the idea of hiding in your house at night while hearing that huge machines walking around is so creepy and scary...
Like ALL night. Just waitin’ to find someone. Didn’t they revisit Tim Robbin’s basement?
That ain't the walking sound those are the footsteps combined with the engine
you know, there's a fan made game coming out if you want to experience that feeling.
@@Project2025WILLRUINYOURLIFEyea it's looking pretty cool the atmosphere seems just like movie
who make the sound dude, im trauma
It’s scary that Ray, Robbie, Rachel, and Sheryl even survived when there was no way they should have
It's just a movie and they were the main characters of course they survived 🤦🏻♂️
For me the most terrifying thing is the fact that they didn’t come from the heavens, they were already here, waiting
They were not already there, just the vehicles were there.
Scariest thing in war of the world 2019 is flesh in the tripod i was questioning about it but no one answered
@@ajengleodita5495 like a bioweapon?
@@agustinojeda8999 Biomechanical
@@infamousarsonist949 yeah
What's scary is. The horn isn't for decoration or intimidation. It's to call reinforcements.
Also a scary fact, it is mentioned in the book and movie that the tripods are thousands of years old that have been recollected from the aliens, so if this is their millennium-old technology, imagine what they have now
Nope. It’s stated that their technology “has been long perfected millions of years ago and does not undergo change”. It the books they can only change the way they use it. They invented everything they needed already, so they lost their ability to invent. That’s why we have a slight leg up on them when they come back for the second invasion. We didn’t have planes in the first invention, and then the aliens come back 15 years later and we buzzing around like flies, and that leap in tech in such a short time actually dazed them and we were able to take down a few more tripods
💀 oh god
When on earth is that said in the book?
Massacre of mankind. Official sequel to war of the worlds. When the martians return, they have no new tech but they use it differently by using different strategies. For example, all the martians land at once in the sequel, rather than one at a time
It’s a cool theme in sci-fi: although we are less tech advanced, we are still in the “inventing” stage in our journey. It’s what gives us that cinematic edge when up against far more advanced species.
Fun fact: black dust/fog comes out the tripod when it plays the horn.
Isn't it old blood, that they drain out?
The tripod walking sounds are a little eerie to
Thats not just them walking THATS A LITERAL TRUCK ENGINE.
Both the tripods and the war horn haunt my nightmares sometimes. So scary.
Imo its the bodies floating in the river, i know it's not as "scary" as today but when i first saw it as a kid i literally got so scared lmfao
It was a shocking scene def cause we got faked out by the calmness
Same lol
Same
True story
The film crew couldn’t took all the fake bodies from the river and some of them make the local people panicking because they assumed they been real
I think that was in The Stand too. Creepy as.
the best alien invasion movie ever
The sound of the tripods walking and making that hydraulic pump sounds is the coolest/scariest thing about then
I always thought it was a phycological weapon. Like the horns on the Stuka bombers in ww2. They are out there solely to frighten the enemy and it works.
I wish the movie was based in the 1890s. The fact that H.G Wells pictured this technology that early on blows my mind.
This movie and Cloverfield still give me chills everytime I watch them. It’s the sense of nostalgia that does it for me, and also because I just always loved these movies
The movie that freaked me out the most was (d rail) and (the birds)
@@thepirateorc3235 may I ask why the birds
(I know, kinda late)
I've never seen Cloverfield. But my all time alien film is District 9. My god that movie is so perfectly done. But I will check out Cloverfield for sure.
@@JinxMarie1985 the sound mix on clover is toptier
Could you imagine living in like a cabin or something and you hear that while hiking. 💀
It has always been their "calling" or "horn" as some people describe it
Just as soon as you hear it. You know are f*cked and dead
I had nightmares about those machines when i was 13 or 14 because of those damn tripods and thank God my nightmare is being made into a game
Same I had a nightmare that I was alone and one of the tripods saw me and was coming after me and no matter where I ran and hid it knew where to find me.
YES IM IN THE DISCORD SERVER BOTH OF THEM
The sound. The frakking sound man. It has haunted me ever since this movie came out! I also recently found out about the WotW game. Super excited.
Wait until you hear a trumpet and the voice of an archangel coming through the clouds
@@MicahHeard yep
If u hear the tripods horn, man go hide to ur basement because the tripods calling da homies
Well, as we can see in the movie, they _will_ visit your basement and *they will be back even if they hadn't found anything* 😭
It’s also scarier that they don’t use it for intimidation they use it for communication
I was thinking the same thing! It's like, "HEY GUYS, I FOUND THE HUMANS!"
To be fair ships do the same thing
For me, tha scariest thing is that, in the movie humanity were extremly lucky. If we didn't got those bacteria what killed the Martians, than humanity would be wiped out. And it's not quite a plot hole that, how does the Matians didn't know about the germs? Simple! If You watching the movie, paying all the attention, the movie said why! At the beggining and at the end, let me explain where:
At the beggining, it said they were watching us, for millions and millions of years, that means they watch how the life evolved, the machine probably were put on Earth, when the first lifes began, back then were other germs, maybe they prepared for that type of germs that were extinct, and not know there was a new kind of germs, like ourselfs, we watch daily over mars, moon and other planets, but we dont know for sure or we dont know anything what's exatcly there. If it was reversed, and we would be the martians, it would be the same fate, we would die from something we didn't know exactly.
At the end, said, in the moment, when they arrived, they had been doomed , affected. This whole incident was taken in fall, when the most people get sick and release the most germs in the AIR.
So yea, maybe i'm wrong, or maybe not, but yea, in the movie the scariest thing was we got extremly lucky.
@@B.I.GShady- It's still a major plothole that needs addressing - a civilization so vastly superior to our own in practically every way would not conclude that exposure to billions of unknown pathogens and microbes on a planet you haven't visited for "millions of years" without any precaution or protection - isn't a particularly good idea.
Even us a pathetic little humans could figure this one out ..
@@yippeeki-yay1691in the book, it was stated how their own advancements were their downfall
When disease and pathogens have been eradicated for millions of years, any civilization may come to forget of them as a threat, and in the case of the Tripods they simply couldn’t have accounted for a variable that they haven’t perceived as a threat for millions of years.
The scariest part is that every subway engineer knew about their existence.
Here's something Horrifying I've noticed
In the Ferry scene we get a Look at what I always called The Overwatch Class Tripod
(Flips the ferry over) and the Harvester Class tripod (abduct people)
In that scene we notice the Red cross asking people with certain blood type to please keep donating which almost everyone seems to be doing.
(Important for later)
The Exterminator Class Tripods (basically the First one seen in the movie)
Zaps everyone with the Bad blood types. And let's people with the good Blood Live (Including Ray and his Kids and 95% of the people in the Ferry scene.)
When Ray and his kids Swim to shore and the camera Pans to the Area they came from you can see the Harvester Class tripods harvesting people while the Overwatch tripods In the Small city
Barely Fire their lasers Implying Very few Bad blood People are left and probably are Locals to that small city
Or aren't shooting as there's too many people with the Right bloody type near them which can cause collateral damage to the much needed right blood type.
Also in that same scene everyone who escaped the Harvester class tripods didn't escape because they were quick. It was simply due to them having the bad blood type. Hence why the overwatch tripods vaporized them.
Long rant/Run on sentence 😂 I know but a neat detail I've taken a notice too.
Ya good observation
Wow I didn't know that!!
Damm bro
they were very coordinated, that whole ferry scene was an ambush and a really good one as well. you can tell those aliens sent the best of the best for this invasion they planned out (except the part where bacteria can eliminate them)
I praise you for also voicing your opinion cuz I thought it was just me tripping when I saw that the tripod that flipped over the ferry was twice as large as the one we saw at the start this detail also nods to the novel having different classes of machines for different reasons
The scariest part is Robby never finished typing up his paper!!😭
Ngl but the scariest part about the movie was seeing the train on fire knowing that there was death coming from that way
When I first saw that as a kid I was scared for ages
Yep bothered me too
I revisited that scene yesterday, and the battle at the hill, where Robbie goes his way. Love Spielberg’s work.
@@morezco I love Spielberg but how tf did robbie survive? It would've been cool if they cut away and showed how he made it to Boston
Dawg! I tried to explain this to my daughter...
i miss this childhood... thank you who ever made this video 😢😢😢
I personally think that it’s how realistic Ray’s reaction to being covered in human ash
What freaked me out the most as a kid was how there was no escaping. No matter where you went or what you did the tripods always somehow followed. The second you heard that terrifying horn, you knew you had to run, but what got me the fact that anywhere you ran…you know you’ll be hearing that noise again.
Also the bodies in river scarred me for a very long time, it was just so creepy see the bodies slowly float.
This movie imo is underrated.
I also always would’ve loved to see the perspective of the military. We only see them glimpses, they seem to be holding their own, but we never know how or why
Just can't imagine being tucked up in bed then being awaken by that screech.
The scariest thing was the bacteria that killd them. A mild cold was all it took. Powerfull stuff.
Its the main theme of the story.
The scariest thing for me was that during the battle scene between the army and the tripods, the commander on the radio says that their weapons are ineffective. They were hitting the tripods with everything they had knowing they were all gonna die so the refugees could make it past their lines to try and get away to safety.
Imagine being in that situation KNOWING you’re giving everything you’ve got but you’re inevitably going to die and your efforts aren’t even slowing the tripods down.
Marine Corps, not army.
Like The Long Night in GOT. Bacteria was humanity’s dragon glass.
If science fiction films have taught us anything is that if you travel between the stars, most likely you're going to need some form of protection for your mother craft and other vehicles you conduct your exploration or in most cases invasion of the target world. A powerful metallurgy like titanium-A on your hull or energy shielding
If you're moving through space and anything the size of like a speck of dust hits you, it impact and the same force as a nuclear weapon.
You wouldn't have time for fear. Death isn't as bad as you think. Fear dies with the body. We fear change because of evolution.
@@lelouchvibritannia4028Marines on the front line First responders to any attack even to the homeland, that, or it was the national guard?
The Jeff Wayne tripod noise gives me more chills then that
Everyone knows the true tripod sound is UULAAAAH
But seriously though the sound of the capsule unscrewing at the beginning of Horsell Common and the Heat Ray gives me chills
When they’re in the van and all the people try to steal it is when I was the most scared.
That fcking sound always scares me
For me it's specifically the scene after the boat is flipped, and there are hundreds of people running down those hills, their screams echoing for miles.
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The sound design for this versions of the tripods is absolutely on point. It's what makes them so brilliant.
The tripods sound designs will never not give me chills
actually, they don't release their horns for intimidation, but for communication to other tripods
The scariest part for me is the breakdown of the veneer of civil behaviour into everyone for themselves or their own. Quite obvious with the symbols of law and order being overrun and rendered meaningless in the face of unknown terror.
some people got together (the time they were all trapped in the tripod cage and helped Ray escape) while others (the car jacking scene) got violent with each other
@@Maxx-ib6nr My theory. When faced with absolute *certain* death, humans know when to come together and strategize to avoid that fate. However, when faced with *uncertainty* and allowing fear mixed with impatience to override our mind, we tend to scatter and maul each other to survive (survival of the fittest instincts come to play). Moral of the story: stay calm, cool and collected and lone wolf is always better than safety in numbers. Each has better advantages regarding on the scenario/circumstance at hand. Ex. Ray was playing lone wolf with the car and was singled out..right? Had it been that he and family were among the crowd, would they have been noticed? Anyway he needed the car to get to that point lol
When it’s at a point where it’s every man for himself
Two of my favorite scenes are the train crossing and the train passes by at full speed fully on fire. And when they’re at the ferry crossing and Dakota Fanning looks back and sees the trees moving and the bird flying away and you see the tripods in the background approaching. Such great cinematography
I remember when i was 5 and i saw my mom watching war of the world and i hear that sound and had a nightmare for a week
The sound of the machine moving is what gets me.
For me that sends me chills is, "wherever you go, they are there, killing, & you just watching it all, not wanting to but just need to see it. Maybe they'll get you too"
the worst thing is, that sound isn't for intimidation, it's to tell the other ones it's found people.
The thing that annoyed me the most is that the military didn't try to go inside the tripod's shield proximity
And take it out inside it's shield, I can even see how small there shield proximity
What if it deytroys he vechile in the shield they would stomp on it
There's actually concept art of the Military downing a Tripod by setting up an explosive rig below the surface. They bait a Tripod to walk over it and detonate it, not only leaving a massive crater, but tripoing the Tripod.
The Tripod survived and another Tripod came along and dragged it out of the hole. I really wish the concept art would have been implemented, because the whole 'hill fight' was sketched out in detail, and it was pretty xlear the Tripods weren't even trying through 99% of the movie
That was inspired by the sound of an ancient Celtic war horn.
God, I could not imagine hearing that from far away
It's the fact that they took over within a few days time that's actually the most chilling part.
For me I'd say it's the Tripod's horns themselves. That Shit scary af if you hear it in the Middle of the Night 💀
the part that scares me most is that even hiding indoors won’t help your survival, they have probes so they search houses
Nah man the scariest part was the feeling of hopelessness.
They don't ride lightning down. They moving so fast they're causing the lightning.
That horn sound is the biblical sound that is said to signal end of times coming
The tripod noise always terrifies me
I just found out that they have different types of noises depending on their roles
The worst is when you realize these are only and barely the scouts of the xeno empire that used their old or ancient technology
Yup! That its aincent tech
@@watchthescreen777 indeed! I wonder if they will send another force
The scariest part about War of the Worlds is that when HG Wells wrote it back in the 1890s he was putting the civilized world in the position that they put indigenous peoples in the world over. As he himself explained in the opening of the Novel, pointing to Tasmania , the Americas and other places. With biochemistry in its early stages of infancy, Wells brilliantly questioned what would happen to to human immune system if we found a cure for everything and reversed the plague situation experienced by so many colonized Societies, placing it on the Martians, who are a parable of the British Empire itself. Also the effects bringing plants from Europe had on the ecosystems of places such as North America, European grasses, alone, were quite devastating. Quite brilliant and insightful well ahead of its time.
The scariest part of War of the Worlds is that it's truth is as timeless as George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." and people still fail to act to avert the problems addressed in these Masterpieces, the first of which was published 126 years ago.
Now that's scary.
War of the Worlds is on par with
The bellowing sound AND the bloodsucking ones freaked me out the most.
The horn is why i love tripods so much
I remember seeing my dad watching this and I was so intrigued. I never seen a movie that could make me feel so nervous
Spielberg nailed this one so hard. Those tripods are one of the scariest things I've seen on the screen.
The scariest thing for me was in fact the lasers but just because they transform human life an entire individuell or 100ts with all their dreams and love in to ash in secconds .. normaly you can say its very human to get killed this way ... but it was soo inhuman to me...
i watched this movie with my mother as a children in Germany in the Cinema and it was the first movie where i turned my eyes away because of the lasers.. it was so dark to me. .. But than i developed other feelings like how ray and his daughter were in the basement of the house.. watching the tripods doing their work like its industrial harvesting.. all the sounds of the pumps and the spraying and the processing of the ground before pumping .. the red juice out ... it was so logic and ice cold you know ... that was soo scary and i really was interessted in to these aliens i was sad that its just one movie with so much lack of informations but is at the same time an important part of the recept for the film.
the director's idea initially was that his aliens were mysterious so he doesn't have much information about them, so much so that we don't even know if they came from a mother ship or teleportation.
@@nandes7998 yeah thats awesome, and a very important part of the film to created these atmosphere, but at the same time, you wanna know more, knowing that it would literally destroy the entire film. 😂
It's the sound of their engines that get me.
When you hear that noise, you know you're fucked up
The scariest part about the horn is that it's not meant to strike fear, it's them calling the other tripods in the area
That tripod sound is forever stuck in my head.
I remember seeing this in theaters, it was an awesome experience as a kid. We were spoiled back then.
The scariest part is the stupidity of the people when the first tripod emerges.
I’d be like yo that’s dope then run
@@TITLEFIFTY same, I’d be in Nunavut before the heat ray could even fire up.
The horn sound gives everyone chills
It does
Also the fact that the strongest military in the world can barely slow them out, let alone kill them.
We now have more lethal ways of dealing with shit like this.
@@citizencj3389well have aliens actually invaded in real life no
Everyone's gangster until you still hear the sound when you take off your headphones.
The scary part was when the news lady showed the broadcast of all the tripods in the city it was cool and scary at the same time
As someone who lives in Tornado Alley, the siren is the scariest thing for sure. :0
That f'n tripod sound 😱😱😱
It’s the sound of the horn and being in a cage made by aliens
I watched this when I was like 6…and I was obsessed with it for days!! This Film is a masterpiece but it was also very scary…but I love it! I’m pretty sure at the beginning it said “based on a true story” and that gave me chills..
The basement part when the eye thing comes down that scared me like hell
Remember THE machine searching THE house .... In scary movie xD bangs vaccumer Lmao
Yeah watch the cage seena dn the deleted version of it
I'm so glad there's a Fallout 3 mod for these things. It always bothered me that Zeta didn't feel like it had much connection to the game aside from the previously placed Theta ship. So having more alien stuff was really fun.
Nah i think Is the blood drained in the human body
Yup, it's also using human flesh to move the tripod as a fuel scene where tom almost suck by tentacles then he throw a bomb inside it..
Those coordination tones are really wicked.
Hack an EAS alarm siren and play this sound, everyone who watched world of war would freak out.
What is an EAS alarm?
@@johanneabelsen1644 The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national warning system in the United States designed to allow authorized officials to broadcast emergency alerts and warning messages to the public via cable, satellite and broadcast television and both AM, FM and satellite radio. Informally, Emergency Alert System is sometimes conflated with its mobile phone counterpart Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), a different but related system. However, both the EAS and WEA, among other systems, are coordinated under the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). The EAS, and more broadly IPAWS, allows federal, state, and local authorities to efficiently broadcast emergency alert and warning messages across multiple channels.[1] The EAS became operational on January 1, 1997, after being approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in November 1994,[2] replacing the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS), and largely supplanted Local Access Alert systems, though Local Access Alert systems are still used from time to time. Its main improvement over the EBS, and perhaps its most distinctive feature, is its application of a digitally encoded audio signal known as Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME), which is responsible for the characteristic "screeching" or "chirping" sounds at the start and end of each message. The first signal is the "header" which encodes, among other information, the alert type and locations, or the specific area that should receive the message. The last short burst marks the end-of-message. These signals are read by specialized encoder-decoder equipment. This design allows for automated station-to-station relay of alerts to only the area the alert was intended for.
@johanneabelsen1644 Emergency Alert System. The test for it comes over TV and radio waves at least once a month. Here in America, at least.
Equivalent of an Air Raid siren test.
The walking sound and the horn is what got to me growing up. And the fact everything you think of that could help you escape did no single bit of help as well as thw military weapons do no damage, and how humanity turned amongst themselves to do whatever they can to survive
The ferry boat scene got to me the most
A book I highly recommend is called map of the sky and also map of time(since it comes first). Basically map of the sky is H.G. Wells living through War of the Worlds himself.
That tripod just had some bad alien robot Taco Bell.
The really scary thing is, that you can't hide. They WILL reach you no matter where you are hiding.
Also in point nemo?
Me, chilling in the sewers*
@@Mr.Cheeseburger24 the bacteria and dieases living in the sewers: 😯
Yeah, the sound was very cool I have to say.
The most suspenseful part to me was when they were in the basement and the tripod's probe showed up. I couldn't stop imagining it peeking into my room! Thankfully, I was soon not nervous anymore because I imagined it gaining legs and dancing to make it funny, and that helped 😂😂
They drink us!!!
For those who don't know, there is a War of the Worlds survival game being developed right now. You can see some gameplay and it looks amazing and terrifying.
Definitely the sound, 😱 so scary...
Somedays,I hear a boat on the sea making similar sound,and yeah,it gives me chills all the way down my spine.
the entire timei was watching this i was thinking
"nah we all know its the BWAAAAAAM"