Absolutely love this movie. When I was a kid, I called them "street light monsters" and would kinda get freaked out when I was outside in the yard by myself at night when the street lights turned on.
WOOOOOOW FACINNATING VERY NICE WONDERFULL FACINATING INCRÉDIBLE SÚPER SOUND EFFECTS REMASTERED OFF THE UFOS MANTARAYS KING COBRA KHAN STARWARSHIPS EXOALIENS MARTIANS FROM THE WAR OFF THE WORLDS FROM 1953-2021 FOR OVER 67 YEARS AGO IS 1 THE BEST SCIENCE FICCIÓN SUPER CLASSICS OFF ALL TIME DEFINTLY AND I REALLY LOVE IT ALL TIME DEFINTLY 👍👁️👁️😀😍😘😃
When I was little - like three years old in the mid-1960s - i LOVED this movie. LOVED IT. There was a standing rule that if it ever came on TV, no matter what time, even on a school night, I could watch it. These sounds trigger something waaaay deep in my brain.
Beautiful. The Martian war machines were one of the greatest science fiction designs ever or would ever be made. Those sounds were essential to everything great about them.
Do you mean the Heat Ray or this sound that the machines sometimes make when they're flying close to the ground? If you mean the Heat Ray than I'm in your side!😉
@@furbabydaddy5604 If you talking about the sound that comes on @1:42, then yeah, that's someone hitting a metal pipe or hammer on high-tension guy wires on transmission/utility towers. I remember as a kid in the mid-60's hitting one accidentally, and it made that EXACT sound. I was thrilled for weeks!
These sound effects have been re-used in other productions so many times, it's hard to count. Most notably the hovering sound effect is probably best known as the Star Trek phaser sound, whereas the heat rays were used for quite a number of individual laser blasts in the original Star Wars trilogy (along with effects newly designed by Ben Burtt).
Star Wars did not have "Phasers" it had Blasters or Blaster rifles, and the X-Wing "Laser" sounds were first recorded by Lucas as hitting an electrical utility pole "guy wire" with a hammer. I saw that in a 'Making of Star Wars' documentary. (Will add a reference here if I can find one...)
It is hard for me to imagine both how George Pal et al. came up with such a thoroughly alien-looking device or how 1953 audiences would have reacted to it.
This was a masterpiece and represented the high water mark of "aliens invading earth" movies. Many others put their own twist on it but none matched the raw terror and inevitability of _War of the Worlds_.
My German Shepard stops what ever his doing and Literally stares at the TV during the attacks of Mars ships on Earth , A stare of Confusion I guess. That darn sound is eerie scary
It isn't just the sound effects that are amazing. For a film from the early 1950's the visual effects are impressive and still stand up better today than some of the CGI effects from more recent films
The green pulse weapon was used heavily for the photon torpedo sound in the original series. It was also used for when He-Man transforms Cringer into Battle Cat in Masters of the Universe among many other uses.
After these sound effects were created, they became part of Paramount’s library and were frequently reused, so you definitely heard them in “Star Trek”! This movie should’ve won the other Oscars for which it was nominated, too! Always terrifying and satisfying! Peace.
You know it's cicada season when you step outside and hear these sounds. The lower thrum and high pitched buzz (minus the intermittent high pitched warble) goes on from sunrise to dusk out here.
Excellent video. I’ve always liked the design of the Martian craft. Love the ‘pulse photon’ sound generated from the wing tips. I’m lucky enough to have one of the wonderful ready built models of the craft.
It was 1984 I was 10 years old my grandfather took my brother and I to our local drive-in theater to see a double feature.War of the worlds and forbidden planet. The sound of the Martian war machines and the echoing of the green plasma bursts still gives me chills to this day I can still hear her echoing through all the drive in speakers. I remember sitting on the back of my grandfathers Wagoneer with fries and a hotdog and imagining the Martian war machines breaking through the tree line.
Tied for the best movie with the original "Invaders from Mars" that came on my black and white TV every Easter Sunday at 2am before "My Friend Flicka" at 4am.
One of the greatest science fiction movies of all time... The fantastic adaptation of H.G. Wells novel, the iconic Martian War Machine design, the incredible special effects and unforgettable sound effects!!!!!!!
You can tell that some of these sounds were directly taken and used by Star Trek: The Original Series if not altered some first. I'm not mad about it or anything though. Both franchises are wonderful science fiction.
Forty three seconds in and we beging to hear a starfleet hand phaser slowly coming up to full power. A full minute later and the photon torpedoes begin to fly. It's amazing how many times these sound effects have been used over the decades, whether in altered or original form. They hold up.
I still love this movie. As a story it has the 2005 remake beat. And when I was little and first saw this on video these things gave me nightmares: they were ferocious, unstoppable monsters. Now I'd like to see one of these fight one of the Tripods! It kinda sparked my love for sci-fi and technology, this and Star Trek.
The movies that have tripods have always made me laugh because, why do those mechanical legs have so many joints? Each joint is a weak point in terms of engineering. You want to reduce weak points, or at least add some external cover to protect them. But no, gotta have a bunch of articulated joints because...crickets. Plus, tripods aren't the most stable if you want them to be mobile as with each step, the machine is perched on two legs and can be easily knocked over. The most stable would be a pentapod where you could easily step with two legs off the ground and three still supporting the cabin.
the fx crew initially wanted to show ray particle "legs", but it was too costly and cumbersome. a little of that shows in some of the initial footage, i think (i'll have to check
I think they forgot how to make scary movies after this one came out. The sound effects are absolutely terrifying, and the ships even worse! Great movie and one of the most memorable of all time!
I remember watching this stunning classic film with the rest of my family when it premiered on "NBC's Saturday Night at the Movies." I was astonished! I remain as such each time I view it! Some of the sound effects were used in other films and TV shows from Paramount studios. I'm waiting for a local restored movie theater to hold a showing of this masterpiece on the big screen. It would be perfect just before Halloween. Cheer-o!
Halloween is perfect! Some years ago a group of us late 30-somethings were watching late in the evening of Halloween, smokin' n' drinking. At some point, maybe the farmhouse scene, Forrester says to Syliva: It's pulling out. Of course that was a great double entendre and we were all rolling on the floor laughing until tears came out.
Everytime i see the streetlights in my city i remember these alien starships making this very same sound, and it's still creepy like 30 years ago when i saw this fantastic movie on TV when i was a kid.
I spent a long time finding out where the original Star Trek sound effects came from and here it is. My dad said that was a way of the producers saving money while producing the original Star Trek TV show. Clever.
Totally awesome! I needed the sounds for the Tripod as stuck him in a game and then cut sounds into clips for the various sounds in game and the results are mind blowing as you know how loud it is. Thank you for your time and love for The War of the Worlds.
@@brothersgt.grauwolff6716 it's not an abomination, it's the most faithful wotw adaptation next to the BBC and Jeff Wayne version. Explain to me why it was so bad
@@dmqn3135 because it's got Tom Cruise in it overacting and not being true o the original HG Wells dialog. Plus it's got that horrible vagina sucking things. Gimme a break.
I noticed in the Wikipedia article something that I had missed through all my viewings: Dr. Forrester and his colleages were scientists at Pacific Institute of Science and Technology. Someone in production had a great laugh with the initials of that great institution: PIST.
Yeah; back in the fifties and sixties you could not say the names of government agencies like the CIA, FBI, or even institutions such as CalTech. It was funny, because everyone knew who you were really talking about. Censorship was more rampant back then than most people nowadays think.
Just before the heat ray fires, you hear that electronic rattle snake sound don't know what made it. I know the torpedos are from striking a metallic rod & the heat ray is an electric guitar played in reverse. The machine hovering sound is an oscillator.
The first time I saw War of the Worlds was on a background tv in the movie The Explorers. I wondered what the hell that is and tried to draw it from memory. Then maybe a few years later actually saw it and I was like wow it's the film from the other movie!
I always used to think that the sound effect for the heat ray could have been produced by scraping something on a rapidly spinning grindstone. An axe head or some such. Obviously, they would have jazzed it up electronically, but it definitely has an "axe to grind" edge to it.
The design of the Martian Grav Tanks in this movie is a brilliantly simple and actually quite practical design especially by SciFi standards. The eye stalk ray guns are basically turrets and the two blasters are essentially the bow machine guns. Also this is That one movie where we have our collective asses as a species completely handed to us and only mother nature's tender mercies saved us.
This was the first science fiction film I remember watching. It gave me nightmares as a child, especially the house scene where we get to see the aliens.
"Everybody out of here, everybody out! The air force'll take care of these babies now. Doctor Forrester, get out of here. Everybody out of here. Everybody ouaaaarrrrggghhh!!!"
I watched this for the first time the other day and i cant believe how awesome and genuinely scary it was at times. Just the thought of something so simple looking being able to destroy entire cities in minutes
Star trek used these fx I hear phases and photon torpedoes I love these Fx and use them on my war of the world digital video shorts I made here on you tube
1954 movie by far. 2005 was good but the whole coming out of the ground part made no sense. How does a machine that big go undiscovered with all the subterranean work man has done for centuries?
Me and brother liked this movie for two reasons. One on how they used there torpedoes sounds if I didn't know better there they sound a bit like normal photon torpedos from the the TOS star trek and the cartoon star tek too, and two when Dr. Clayton Forseter said Blissed or Force Field I was thinking more in way of Deflector Shields. The show was excellent and the best show ever made.
The "pew pew pew" green laser bolts were made by tapping guide wires/tight cables holding radio and telephone poles with rubber and plastic mallets. And was redone by sound engineers for The first StarWars movie. My parents house to this day has old metal siding...I get the same sound by tapping long sections LOL.
outsider238 Good question, that is one sound I haven't heard used in any other show/movie since this one. That weapon has like 3 sounds combined. The early 50's music scene was just on the verge of electrifying guitars, with amps. They did use mics on everyday sounds though, and boosted, reversed, distorted, and slowed down recordings. Then layered them on top of each other. My 4th grade teacher had us redo War of the worlds radio version back in the early 70's and we made our own sounds..it was a blast.
@@buzbom1 Hi, i know this is an old post but I thought it'd be an interesting random tidbit. In the latest Godzilla movie (the 2014 one by Gareth Edwards), the monster that escapes containment early on in the movie has a moment where it rips its way through high tension metal cabling. I was always moved by the nostalgic noise it made as the cables tensed and sprang back and forth..... and it's only now that i realise it is this exact effect you are referring to that it reminded me of! And it makes perfect sense that they'd make that noise if tapping cables was how it was originally done for the alien weapons too. The more you know :P.
@@outsider238 I have heard that as well, I feel like one of the sounds - the repeating downward-pitched noise - might have been possible with a guitar in 1953 (you could buy a Les Paul in 1952) and a couple of slides or objects used like slides, one in each hand. The higher-pitched scrape/hiss could have been made with a tape machine if it were three-head and could be made to feed its playback signal back into its record preamp. Wikipedia says "The sound effects of the war machines' heat rays firing were created by mixing the sound of three electric guitars being recorded backwards" but I just don't hear that in the recording.
This is getting a ton of attention now considering the US government now admits the existence of ufos and is now proving they have a new Pentagon department investigating it.
Absolutely love this movie. When I was a kid, I called them "street light monsters" and would kinda get freaked out when I was outside in the yard by myself at night when the street lights turned on.
WOOOOOOW FACINNATING VERY NICE WONDERFULL FACINATING INCRÉDIBLE SÚPER SOUND EFFECTS REMASTERED OFF THE UFOS MANTARAYS KING COBRA KHAN STARWARSHIPS EXOALIENS MARTIANS FROM THE WAR OFF THE WORLDS FROM 1953-2021 FOR OVER 67 YEARS AGO IS 1 THE BEST SCIENCE FICCIÓN SUPER CLASSICS OFF ALL TIME DEFINTLY AND I REALLY LOVE IT ALL TIME DEFINTLY 👍👁️👁️😀😍😘😃
@@carlosramsesdelosreyesbeni3375 wtf are you talking about.
THE UFOS MANTARAYS KING COBRAS LASER CANNON HEADS TERRICOLA WHO ELSE DUMB ASS !
@@carlosramsesdelosreyesbeni3375 I did not know because of the random emoji spam and can you turn off capslock it makes you look like a 12 year old
I had the exact same feeling as a kid especially since the street lights in my town were shaped similarly
I think the 1953 version has become very underrated in the last 20 years or so
Oh no it has not. Lots of people even today love this masterpiece.
@@harvestercommander3250 Including me.😊
Joshua TV and me.
@@harvestercommander3250 Well That was obvious, because I don't think that you'd call something a masterpiece when you don't like it.:-)
Joshua TV well that’s true.
When I was little - like three years old in the mid-1960s - i LOVED this movie. LOVED IT. There was a standing rule that if it ever came on TV, no matter what time, even on a school night, I could watch it. These sounds trigger something waaaay deep in my brain.
I was and still am the same way.
This is my favorite movie ever.
Me too
Best 60s movie. 2001: A space odyssey.
@@willfomes406 Thanks for the odd interruption. We're discussing the '53 WoW film. The 2001 movie discussion is to your right in room 666.
Truly phenomenal sound design for its time.
It's amazing how these sounds from over 60 years ago hold up!
Such a great sci fi flick even Steven Spielberg couldn’t touch its greatness.
War Of The Worlds celebrates its 70th Anniversary in 2023. 🛸
@@luisreyes1963 it’s 2023 now, but what month?
Beautiful. The Martian war machines were one of the greatest science fiction designs ever or would ever be made. Those sounds were essential to everything great about them.
War machines as strong as One Punch!
Oh my god, the TS-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S sound is quite possibly my favourite of all time
Do you mean the Heat Ray or this sound that the machines sometimes make when they're flying close to the ground? If you mean the Heat Ray than I'm in your side!😉
Joshua TV all of it layered together is awesome. Unreal special effects...
My favorite is the pulse rays. ( actually created by hitting a pipe against a telephone pole).
@@furbabydaddy5604
If you talking about the sound that comes on @1:42, then yeah, that's someone hitting a metal pipe or hammer on high-tension guy wires on transmission/utility towers. I remember as a kid in the mid-60's hitting one accidentally, and it made that EXACT sound. I was thrilled for weeks!
@@Joshua0810 he meaNS THe beginning
These sounds still give me goosebumps
Badass noise never sounded so good LOL Thumbs up
thanks I worked hard on this one
thatSFXguy
For me the 1953 ver is the best one out of all of them.
The sound of the ships shooting the green rays is blood curdling, to this day. One of the most influential sound effects of all time.
These sound effects have been re-used in other productions so many times, it's hard to count. Most notably the hovering sound effect is probably best known as the Star Trek phaser sound, whereas the heat rays were used for quite a number of individual laser blasts in the original Star Wars trilogy (along with effects newly designed by Ben Burtt).
Yeah, and don't forget Spooky Space Kook from Scooby Doo Where Are You.
Hovering sound used in The Invaders as well, I believe! :)
Star Wars did not have "Phasers" it had Blasters or Blaster rifles, and the X-Wing "Laser" sounds were first recorded by Lucas as hitting an electrical utility pole "guy wire" with a hammer. I saw that in a 'Making of Star Wars' documentary. (Will add a reference here if I can find one...)
So this is where Gene Roddenberry got the ideas for phaser and photon torpedo sound effects for The Original Star Trek Series.
The Martian heat ray and green death ray sound effects were well utilized in the underrated "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" too.
those martians got some heavy trigger fingers.
Elegant looking, but violent:ferocious war machines.
It is hard for me to imagine both how George Pal et al. came up with such a thoroughly alien-looking device or how 1953 audiences would have reacted to it.
@@hubbsllc, because Al Nozaki was truly a visionary! Peace.
I always loved that they don't look like something humans would build, even if we had the technology. The aesthetic feels alien.
This was a masterpiece and represented the high water mark of "aliens invading earth" movies. Many others put their own twist on it but none matched the raw terror and inevitability of _War of the Worlds_.
Something's wrong with the video, I paused it but it's still playing
My favorite is the green laser bolt sound ! So cool ! So alien !
@Mr. Tripod Yes. 1953 will always be superior.
it's the same sound Star Trek used for their photon torpedoes
@@highlander723Because it was a stock sound effect, the sound was made from a guy wire being smacked with a wrench.
My German Shepard stops what ever his doing and Literally stares at the TV during the attacks of Mars ships on Earth , A stare of Confusion I guess. That darn sound is eerie scary
watching now Dec 2020. Still bad ass sound effects!
It isn't just the sound effects that are amazing. For a film from the early 1950's the visual effects are impressive and still stand up better today than some of the CGI effects from more recent films
I'm hearing alot of Star Trek in this! Amazing...
The green pulse weapon was used heavily for the photon torpedo sound in the original series. It was also used for when He-Man transforms Cringer into Battle Cat in Masters of the Universe among many other uses.
I hear TOS Starfleet phasers in there, too.
Byron Haskin Directed WOTW and Co-Produced the Original Star Trek pilot.
After these sound effects were created, they became part of Paramount’s library and were frequently reused, so you definitely heard them in “Star Trek”! This movie should’ve won the other Oscars for which it was nominated, too! Always terrifying and satisfying! Peace.
You know it's cicada season when you step outside and hear these sounds. The lower thrum and high pitched buzz (minus the intermittent high pitched warble) goes on from sunrise to dusk out here.
Excellent video. I’ve always liked the design of the Martian craft. Love the ‘pulse photon’ sound generated from the wing tips. I’m lucky enough to have one of the wonderful ready built models of the craft.
It was 1984 I was 10 years old my grandfather took my brother and I to our local drive-in theater to see a double feature.War of the worlds and forbidden planet. The sound of the Martian war machines and the echoing of the green plasma bursts still gives me chills to this day I can still hear her echoing through all the drive in speakers. I remember sitting on the back of my grandfathers Wagoneer with fries and a hotdog and imagining the Martian war machines breaking through the tree line.
The one thing both War of the Worlds films had in common was some absolutely chilling sound design
Tied for the best movie with the original "Invaders from Mars" that came on my black and white TV every Easter Sunday at 2am before "My Friend Flicka" at 4am.
On Easter Sunday? May god have mercy! 😂
One of the greatest science fiction movies of all time... The fantastic adaptation of H.G. Wells novel, the iconic Martian War Machine design, the incredible special effects and unforgettable sound effects!!!!!!!
Brood X has awoken and this is what my backyard sounds like.
Exactly! I wonder if the original sound artist was inspired by cicada sounds?
I saw this film probably 10 years ago and now i'm 17 this sound still terrifies me. It's so good.
Heh, heh - I'm 57 and I saw it when I was three. That won't go away.
You can tell that some of these sounds were directly taken and used by Star Trek: The Original Series if not altered some first. I'm not mad about it or anything though. Both franchises are wonderful science fiction.
Sound design at its best.
Forty three seconds in and we beging to hear a starfleet hand phaser slowly coming up to full power. A full minute later and the photon torpedoes begin to fly. It's amazing how many times these sound effects have been used over the decades, whether in altered or original form. They hold up.
What sound I like that I don't think I heard was that 'electric guitar' pulsing sound as it built up to the point just before it fired.
Love that sound
The sound effect for the skeleton beam was used for photon torpedoes on Star Trek TOS.
thats music in my ears
I still love this movie. As a story it has the 2005 remake beat. And when I was little and first saw this on video these things gave me nightmares: they were ferocious, unstoppable monsters. Now I'd like to see one of these fight one of the Tripods! It kinda sparked my love for sci-fi and technology, this and Star Trek.
@Mr. Blue Whale Agreed, but both have shields, and in the 2005 one kanukies weren't used. I imagine the brawl would be pretty even.
Well, anything that doesn't have Tom Cruise in it is going to the top of the heap.
Those sounds are positively fantastic! They are a great favourite in my family.
I get excited goosebumps when I hear them. Beautiful!
I LOVE this movie, but I do think that the tripods not having visible legs is not very cool. But they do look amazing
I like that they look like they hover.
The movies that have tripods have always made me laugh because, why do those mechanical legs have so many joints? Each joint is a weak point in terms of engineering. You want to reduce weak points, or at least add some external cover to protect them. But no, gotta have a bunch of articulated joints because...crickets.
Plus, tripods aren't the most stable if you want them to be mobile as with each step, the machine is perched on two legs and can be easily knocked over. The most stable would be a pentapod where you could easily step with two legs off the ground and three still supporting the cabin.
the fx crew initially wanted to show ray particle "legs", but it was too costly and cumbersome. a little of that shows in some of the initial footage, i think (i'll have to check
Have to have this as my ringtone. But I think i'll never answer my phone again..
Yeah, just to listen to the ringtone.
Actually it would be funny if you called a friend and asked them to call you back so you could have a fix!
I think they forgot how to make scary movies after this one came out. The sound effects are absolutely terrifying, and the ships even worse! Great movie and one of the most memorable of all time!
Just a reminder that a new adaptation of The War Of The Worlds will be on EPIX.
I remember watching this stunning classic film with the rest of my family when it premiered on "NBC's Saturday Night at the Movies." I was astonished! I remain as such each time I view it! Some of the sound effects were used in other films and TV shows from Paramount studios. I'm waiting for a local restored movie theater to hold a showing of this masterpiece on the big screen. It would be perfect just before Halloween. Cheer-o!
Halloween is perfect! Some years ago a group of us late 30-somethings were watching late in the evening of Halloween, smokin' n' drinking. At some point, maybe the farmhouse scene, Forrester says to Syliva: It's pulling out. Of course that was a great double entendre and we were all rolling on the floor laughing until tears came out.
a effect of sound its incredible for 1950
its great
Everytime i see the streetlights in my city i remember these alien starships making this very same sound, and it's still creepy like 30 years ago when i saw this fantastic movie on TV when i was a kid.
Happy 70th Anniversary, The War of the Worlds (1953)
You are a maestro! I should have dug deeper on your channel. Great work! And thanks!
I spent a long time finding out where the original Star Trek sound effects came from and here it is. My dad said that was a way of the producers saving money while producing the original Star Trek TV show. Clever.
1:30- 1:34, doc's time circuit being set for the Delorean.
Amazing. Check out the sound effects of the lasers from the spaceships from, Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964).
Totally awesome! I needed the sounds for the Tripod as stuck him in a game and then cut sounds into clips for the various sounds in game and the results are mind blowing as you know how loud it is.
Thank you for your time and love for The War of the Worlds.
I love the effect of the ground below them burning up depicting the invisible legs walking
_Listens to the hovering/phaser sound_
Cyberdiscs! :D
For it’s day…this movie was off the charts. It still is a must watch 70 years later. Sci-Fi at its best
When da hell are they gonna come out with a special edition remastered version on bluray 4K.......DVD!
ever since the creation of the Tom Cruise abomination the Wells family estate has forbidden any and all remakes or remasters
@@brothersgt.grauwolff6716 it's not an abomination, it's the most faithful wotw adaptation next to the BBC and Jeff Wayne version. Explain to me why it was so bad
@@dmqn3135 because it's got Tom Cruise in it overacting and not being true o the original HG Wells dialog. Plus it's got that horrible vagina sucking things. Gimme a break.
The sound effects are really impressive. They were in 1953 as well in 2023
Still earey to this day.
I noticed in the Wikipedia article something that I had missed through all my viewings: Dr. Forrester and his colleages were scientists at Pacific Institute of Science and Technology. Someone in production had a great laugh with the initials of that great institution: PIST.
Yeah; back in the fifties and sixties you could not say the names of government agencies like the CIA, FBI, or even institutions such as CalTech. It was funny, because everyone knew who you were really talking about. Censorship was more rampant back then than most people nowadays think.
Just before the heat ray fires, you hear that electronic rattle snake sound don't know what made it. I know the torpedos are from striking a metallic rod & the heat ray is an electric guitar played in reverse. The machine hovering sound is an oscillator.
The first time I saw War of the Worlds was on a background tv in the movie The Explorers. I wondered what the hell that is and tried to draw it from memory. Then maybe a few years later actually saw it and I was like wow it's the film from the other movie!
Thanks so much! You're awesome! :D
Love the sound .
I always used to think that the sound effect for the heat ray could have been produced by scraping something on a rapidly spinning grindstone. An axe head or some such. Obviously, they would have jazzed it up electronically, but it definitely has an "axe to grind" edge to it.
War of the world 1953 is the best alien v human beat down in movie history.
The design of the Martian Grav Tanks in this movie is a brilliantly simple and actually quite practical design especially by SciFi standards. The eye stalk ray guns are basically turrets and the two blasters are essentially the bow machine guns. Also this is That one movie where we have our collective asses as a species completely handed to us and only mother nature's tender mercies saved us.
I think this movie 🎬 was even better than the 1990 Spielberg movie,this was a classic which never can be duplicated.
This is a great movie. I loved it as a kid, and I still love it now.
The best movie ever. I grew up to that.
0:01 to 0:48 was the sound I heard on the ghost craft from the Scooby Doo Where Are You episode Spooky Space Kook
This was the first science fiction film I remember watching. It gave me nightmares as a child, especially the house scene where we get to see the aliens.
PHASER ON OVERLOAD!!!!!
"Everybody out of here, everybody out! The air force'll take care of these babies now. Doctor Forrester, get out of here. Everybody out of here. Everybody ouaaaarrrrggghhh!!!"
Over the last few days I watched so many clips that I watched the DVD again last night!
( I never bothered buying the inferior 2005 version)
Don't you just LOVE it . . . (?)
Best sci-fi movie ever.
The most satisfying, sound known to man
I watched this for the first time the other day and i cant believe how awesome and genuinely scary it was at times. Just the thought of something so simple looking being able to destroy entire cities in minutes
I Was Told That Martian Ships Were Made Out Of A mana ray im not sure if this is true or not
The sound reminds me of the sputnik satallite
Star trek used these fx I hear phases and photon torpedoes I love these Fx and use them on my war of the world digital video shorts I made here on you tube
Fanfuckingtastic.
1953 version vs 2005 version with Tom Cruise
richard alvarado both great in my opinion. And the book.
Vs. the TV version!!!
1954 movie by far. 2005 was good but the whole coming out of the ground part made no sense. How does a machine that big go undiscovered with all the subterranean work man has done for centuries?
@@cyrbuzz6615 Yeah, besides having Tom Cruise overly hamming it up, that is a big plot hole (sorry!)
Masterpiece!!!! Wow
I use the TS-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S sound on my Sat Nav when am closer to my destination,
I miss my old sat nav device :(
I know millions and Maybe billions but this is so satisfying
I seriously have to watch this movie, after all these years, whether I stream it, or get it from the local library.
You must do this, if you haven't already.
@@hubbsllc I did and I loved it. For all some aspects of it are dated, it's still one, very powerful movie.
@@Renserin Visually it looks so good, with all the vivid colors.
.....and I've been creeped out by modern street lamps ever since I first saw this aged 10
epic sound effects
Me and brother liked this movie for two reasons. One on how they used there torpedoes sounds if I didn't know better there they sound a bit like normal photon torpedos from the the TOS star trek and the cartoon star tek too, and two when Dr. Clayton Forseter said Blissed or Force Field I was thinking more in way of Deflector Shields. The show was excellent and the best show ever made.
This movie is amazing
This sounds exactly like the cicada x-brood in NJ in May/June 2021!
When I think of war this is exactly what I think of right here on war of the worlds
Great !
Love this movie.
Still one of the greatest movies in SIFI history, the remakes are second rates compared to this master piece.
War of the Worlds in color and Day the Earth Stood Still in black and white have to be 2 of the best sci fi films of ALL time....
how did they produce that sound
The "pew pew pew" green laser bolts were made by tapping guide wires/tight cables holding radio and telephone poles with rubber and plastic mallets. And was redone by sound engineers for The first StarWars movie. My parents house to this day has old metal siding...I get the same sound by tapping long sections LOL.
I heard somewhere the laser sounds from the cobra heads were made using a guitar.
outsider238 Good question, that is one sound I haven't heard used in any other show/movie since this one. That weapon has like 3 sounds combined. The early 50's music scene was just on the verge of electrifying guitars, with amps. They did use mics on everyday sounds though, and boosted, reversed, distorted, and slowed down recordings. Then layered them on top of each other. My 4th grade teacher had us redo War of the worlds radio version back in the early 70's and we made our own sounds..it was a blast.
@@buzbom1 Hi, i know this is an old post but I thought it'd be an interesting random tidbit. In the latest Godzilla movie (the 2014 one by Gareth Edwards), the monster that escapes containment early on in the movie has a moment where it rips its way through high tension metal cabling. I was always moved by the nostalgic noise it made as the cables tensed and sprang back and forth..... and it's only now that i realise it is this exact effect you are referring to that it reminded me of!
And it makes perfect sense that they'd make that noise if tapping cables was how it was originally done for the alien weapons too. The more you know :P.
@@outsider238 I have heard that as well, I feel like one of the sounds - the repeating downward-pitched noise - might have been possible with a guitar in 1953 (you could buy a Les Paul in 1952) and a couple of slides or objects used like slides, one in each hand. The higher-pitched scrape/hiss could have been made with a tape machine if it were three-head and could be made to feed its playback signal back into its record preamp. Wikipedia says "The sound effects of the war machines' heat rays firing were created by mixing the sound of three electric guitars being recorded backwards" but I just don't hear that in the recording.
It's the cicada sounds!
they use the sound of 1st one in the movie 65, when the ship crashed and it was doing damage report..
This is getting a ton of attention now considering the US government now admits the existence of ufos and is now proving they have a new Pentagon department investigating it.
i wacth 1953 before alot times