H.G. Wells Movie Posters: Six Pix

Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/genre. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the film.

Film adaptations of sci-fi author H.G. Wells’ stories are the subject of today’s Six Pix.

Included are: Island of Lost Souls (1932); The Invisible Man (1933); Things to Come (1937); The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1937); The War of the Worlds (1953); and The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977).

H.G. Wells’ works are ripe for illustration and all the posters here do not disappoint in the least. I’m sure the comment section below will be filled with competent arguments for each and every one and I’d be hard pressed to disprove them…nor would I even want to. Personally, I’m a sucker for subtlety and understatement, so the teaser poster for The Invisible Man is my favorite.

Which one do you think is the winner? Should I have included something else? Tell me about it below! (And please feel free to suggest future topics.)

Brumbolt

Once told Judy Garland I had seen A STAR IS BORN 33 times. She said.”my aren’t you a glutton for punishment”.
Lala1941jan

War of the Worlds, 1953.
JerseyJoe

Ever since I heard the original radio broadcast of 1938 I’ve been hooked on “The War of the Worlds” and while this film isn’t the best it’s much closer to what H.G.Wells wrote than the remake of a few years ago.
Wayne P.

Theyre all good depictions but Things to Come seems to be the most visually stunning poster although The War of the Worlds and Island of Lost Souls were perhaps the best movies of the lot!
http://grandoldmovies.wordpress.com/ Grand Old Movies

Island of Lost Souls does capture that particular movie, if not the original HG Wells novel. Also like the one for The Man Who Could Work Miracles, liked its swirling-galaxy design.
Blair Kramer

Wow! MY favorite poster is THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, but that’s a pretty provocative poster for THE ISLAND OF LOST SOULS! But then, that particular film was made and released before the censor office was born. On a different Herbert George Wells subject that has little if anything to do with this post, am I the only one who liked the remake of THE TIME MACHINE? At the very least, doesn’t the remake have a great score?
- http://twitter.com/Bryankr Bryan Ruffin
  
  Remakes rarely do a very good job. Usually it does nothing more than allow the director a chance to get something off his chest about the original he just didn’t like. In this case, it just filled a quota for the producers. In my opinion. The original is still the better of the two.
  - Blair Kramer
    
    OK. Unlike myself, a lot of people didn’t much care for the the remake. As I often say, to each his own. But doesn’t the remake at least have a very good score?
http://twitter.com/Bryankr Bryan Ruffin

The Island of Dr Moreau does show more of what the movie is really about, but, not as stunning as War of the Worlds. I think I liked War of the Worlds best because it not only has that more stunning visual, but is also going a little extra and telling something of the movie as well. Something of the action involved.
OZ ROB

The uncanny ability Wells possessed when prophesying about science and our future, i think is best depicted by the art work on the ” Things to Come ” poster..