Reception
Although the film's score by Jamie Hall was well received, the film as a whole saw mixed reviews by critics; who, while often praising the good intentions behind the project and its faithfulness to the source material, variously described the result as "unendurable" and "terrible in almost every way a movie can be", with "awful" effects.
Reviewers invoked the work of Ed Wood, and the worst of Mystery Science Theater 3000. But one reviewer suggested the performances were like that in British period melodramas, and favorably likened the work to that of Karel Zeman.
Hines himself said of the movie, "I wanted to make War of the Worlds. But what I made was something that has a macabre cult following, like an Ed Wood movie. I’ve learned a lot since my first outing. My heart is really in the new War of the Worlds – The True Story."
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