After only eight feature film releases in 1946-1949 along with adventure serials, science fiction seemed laregly absent from the cinema in the post-war years until the critical and commerical success of Destination Moon in 1950. Cold war propaganda played a large role in motivating alien invasion films in the U.S., while Phil Hardy, from whose book, The Overlook Film Encyclopdia: Science Fiction (Overlook Press, 1995), this list is largely derived (with some editions), notes the lack of paranoia in science fiction films in other countries, such as in Nebo Zovyot (pictured), aka Battle Beyond the Sun, and the overall different concerns of science fiction films in other countries producing them in large quantities--Britain, Japan, Italy, and Mexico. With the success of The Curse of Frankenstein in 1957, horror overtook and influenced science fiction films with a plethora of monster movies, but now science fiction was finally entrenched as a genre.
