The tone of science fictionfilms is often a guide to the tone of the times the film was made: other worlds and species are viewed in turn as wonderful, terrifying, threatening, incomprehensible, and childishly benign.
... makeup of the town is 95.24% White, 0.93% African American, 0.13% Native American, 0.93% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 1.72% from other races, and 1.06% from two or more ...