Things to Come (1939) genius William Cameron Menzies’ last film as a director is a haunting tale of extra-terrestrial paranoia, which achieves a brilliantly allegorical, nightmarish quality as an alien invasion is seen through the eyes of a child. When little David MacLean sees a flying saucer land outside his bedroom window, no one will believe him, explaining it away as an over-active imagination. But every adult who investigates turns into a radio-controlled menace in this iconic classic Martian fable about Earth’s enslavement to an intergalactic threat, perfectly capturing the isolation and mistrustfulness of youth.