Films Based on H.G. Wells Books | Ranker Tier List

We’re featuring our 5-to-1 ranking system where 5 is the best and 1 is the worst. This list will be updated accordingly.

5-Star Ranking – Best of the Best

Rating: 5 out of 5.
  • War of the Worlds (2005) – An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival. Directed by Stephen Spielberg.

4-Star Ranking – Top 10 Worthy

Rating: 4 out of 5.
  • The Time Machine (2002) – Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races. Directed by Simon Wells.

3-Star Ranking – Good Entertainment

Rating: 3 out of 5.
  • War of the Worlds: Goliath (2012) – Fifteen years since the original H.G. Wells Martian invasion. Fearing another attack, the human race has prepared itself. This is the story of the battle tripod ‘Goliath’ and its young crew. Directed by Joe Pearson.
  • War of the Worlds: The Attack (2023) – The adventures of 3 young astronomers as they track a meteorite that crashed to Earth and their fight to survive a deadly Martian Invasion afterwards. Directed by Junaid Syed.

2-Star Ranking – Could’ve Been Better

Rating: 2 out of 5.
  • Empire of the Ants (1977) – An aggressive land developer takes prospective buyers to a reclaimed swamp in the southeast, where they are attacked by huge genetically mutated ants. Directed by Bert I. Gordon.
  • H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds (2005 Video) – A determined astrophysicist must embark on a nationwide journey to find his son during a massive alien invasion that’s goal is to exterminate the human race. Directed by David Michael Latt.
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) – After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that its inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange-looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor. Directed by John Frankenheimer and Richard Stanley.
  • War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008 Video) – The aliens return to complete their plan of human domination, launching a second wave of attacks that threaten to destroy what is left of humanity. Directed by C. Thomas Howell.

1-Star Ranking – Total Trash

Rating: 1 out of 5.
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