In order to understand this film you have to know a little bit about the Orson Welles 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds. You could say that Orson Welles pioneered shock radio when he performed this story live on the radio in the form of a special news bulletin, informing audiences that aliens had landed in Grovers Mills, New Jersey. At the time this show aired, audiences in New Jersey actually believed the story, sending mass hysteria throughout the state. It wasn't until the end of the program that he admitted the whole thing was a hoax.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
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