War of the Worlds

I found the abrupt shifts from reports to soothing classical music disconcerting. It reminds me of the abrupt shifts from the cabin to the control center in the Cabin in the Woods. As a member of the audience, tension lies in my inability to understand how I should be feeling. A commentator, Carl Phillips, visits a farm in New Jersey where a meteorite was believed to have crash landed. He describes a massive pit, and an object inside the pit that looks more like a yellowish-white cylinder than a meteorite. Phillips brings our attention to a strange humming sound that seems to be coming from the cylinder to which the professor replies that it must be the sounds of the meteorite cooling off, but admits that he no longer believes it to be a meteorite. Bystanders begin to shout when a creature Phillips describes as having tentacles begins to crawl out of the pit. He is interrupted before he is able to complete his report. The New York studio comes on air stating that there is trouble with field transmissions and fades into a piano interlude. While I appreciate the commentator's attempt at calming the audience through soothing music, its more unsettling than if he were to admit that the events taking place at Grover's Mill are a cause for concern.