10 Alien Invasion Movies Where Humanity Loses

10. The Host (2013)

Right at the tail-end of Twilight fever, film execs jumped on the chance to keep the cash flowing by bringing Twil-author Stephenie Meyer’s 2008 YA novel The Host to the big screen. What the film lacks in plot and character, it doesn’t make up for with anything, but at least it minimally compensates for our wasted time with a bold new approach to the alien invasion narrative.

A romance sci-fi thriller, The Host stars Saoirse Ronan as Mel Stryder, a young adult who is captured and infused with an alien parasite creatively called a “Soul”, which imbues her with a second personality: Wanda the Wanderer. The action proceeds with Mel fighting for control of her own body, and while this potent opportunity for social commentary is sadly lost in the mishmash of a screenplay that follows, one thing is for sure: invading aliens have never had it so good.

All in all, the human race is taken over - almost to a man - by the parasitic Souls, which aside from Mel tend to do a factory reset on the bodies they occupy, erasing the human consciousness but retaining the memories. Although the film offers some hope at its conclusion, once Mel has joined up with a small resistance of unassimilated humans and discovered there are a handful of Souls willing to share their headspace, there is no denying humanity has taken a big ol’ L.