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Comic Book Identification - many eyed floating alien monsters in underground caverns in the desert
Thanks to nebogipfel!
I'm very confident it's the comic version of The Shadow Out of time.
https://archive.org/details/shadowoutoftime0000culb
I read the end of it and I'm pretty damn sure this is the ...
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Young adult book series about aliens or hybrids with silver blood
The Mindwarp series by Chris Archer. First book is Alien Terror
As the legend goes, an alien landed in the cornfields of Metier, Wisconsin. After a short while most of the aliens left. But others ...
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Movie with human-sized alien/bugs with guns
Starship Troopers?!! Most of the bug aliens are the size of us in this, and it was definitely about them trying to eradicate the humans and the humans at war with them, and some gruesome shocks happen ...
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Movie with human-sized alien/bugs with guns
Could it have been the tv show Falling Skies?
The show was post-invasion, had bug aliens called Skitters with two mouth tentacles, gore, guns, etc.
Skitters:
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Movie with human-sized alien/bugs with guns
District 9 has most of the elements described: bugs with two prominent whiskers, guns, gore, body horror.
From Wikipedia:
In an alternate 1982, a giant extraterrestrial spaceship arrives at
Earth ...
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Movie with human-sized alien/bugs with guns
Alien Apocalypse (2005)...?
From Wikipedia:
Alien Apocalypse is a 2005 Sci Fi channel original movie, directed and written by Josh Becker, and starring Bruce Campbell, Renee O'Connor, Remington ...
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80s/90s sci-fi horror movie - parasite (alien?) caterpillar
Reminds me of movies Hidden(1987) and Hidden 2(1993)
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Trying to find the name of a movie that I (partly) know the plot of involving a small town and aliens
Could this be Dark City (1998)?
There's a major plot point about people changing jobs around during the night, with one person waking up (John Murdoch) and realising that this is going on.
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Sci-fi short story with shocking reversal of expectation
There are a number of stories with similar plots. An episode of The Twilight Zone, for example.
However, I think the story you read was probably Youth, by Isaac Asimov.
The humans aren't attacking, ...
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Sci-fi short story with shocking reversal of expectation
I was originally going to suggest "Sentry" (1954) by Fredric Brown, but looking at the ISFDb page it doesn't look nearly as likely as the other one Fuzzy Boots suggested, "The Hunters&...
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Black & white TV episode where germs are intelligent
There are some similarities with the 1969 Out of Unknown episode Beach Head. Most obviously the story is about a team of explorers from earth visiting a planet (called Planet 0245/B). The aliens are ...
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Old TV show with ghost attacking settlers on Mars
Is this the TV miniseries, The Martian Chronicles (1980)...?
From Wikipedia:
The Martian Chronicles is a 1980 television 3 episode miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's 1950 book The Martian Chronicles ...
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Anime about two girls who transport a loner kid from a classroom to a fantasy world
This is I'm Standing on a Million Lives. The manga version was identified here. The anime aired from Oct 2, 2020 to Dec 18, 2020.
The man with half a head is the Game Master. The wiki describes his ...
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Movie about a crashed UFO that drove radio frequencies crazy and gave people physical symptoms
I'm not sure that you are looking for a movie. There was a good series on CBS called Threshold (2005-2006). The premise was:
From TV Guide:
Dr. Molly Caffrey, a government contingency analyst, ...
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Movie about a crashed UFO that drove radio frequencies crazy and gave people physical symptoms
I've only just speed-watched it, but other than being earlier than your guess, there seem to be a lot of similarities to the 1967 movie Night of the Big Heat. A very detailed plot synopsis covers ...
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Book about a space traveler who meets a cat-like alien on another planet
The sand storm element remins me of "Day of the Starwind" - the protagonist has an alien companion but if I remember right she's more bat than cat. It's a fairly short YA book. Our hero ...
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