Jack Arnold's 1953 sci-fi classic gets the 3D treatment it was originally shot for, bringing desert paranoia and alien menace back to a Las Vegas screen. The story follows an astronomer who witnesses what he believes is a meteor crash near a small town, only to discover it's actually a spacecraft carrying visitors who begin taking human form to blend in among the locals. Shot in black and white with practical 3D effects that were groundbreaking for their era, the film captures that particular flavor of atomic-age anxiety that defined so much of 1950s science fiction.

Watching it at The Beverly Theater adds another layer to the experience—this intimate space with its focus on acoustics and picture quality feels like the right setting for a film that leaned so heavily on visual spectacle to tell its story. The 3D glasses might feel like a novelty, but the film's use of depth and shadow still holds up as a clever piece of practical filmmaking, made decades before CGI made such tricks routine. It's a chance to see genre history the way audiences originally experienced it, cracked plaster monsters and all.