You can’t trust adults.   It’s a theme that runs through many of the better monster movies of the 1950s, from THE BLOB to INVADERS FROM MARS, where a group of young people happen upon some supernatural or alien creature, but their attempts to warn authority figures are immediately rebuked or entirely ignored. Their parents just don’t understand. The police are suspicious or entirely dismissive. So it looks like these youngsters are going to have to rely on their wits to save the day, or at least long enough that the threat becomes large enough that authority figures can’t
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