War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave is a 2008 direct-to-DVD science fiction-thriller film by The Asylum, which premiered on Syfy on Tuesday March 18, 2008, directed by and starring C. Thomas Howell.

George Herbert recognises a familiar disturbance on the radio as the same heard during the first invasion and he reveals to Major Kramer and a team of scientists that his studies show that the aliens are creating a wormhole between Earth and Mars for another wave of attacks.

He escapes to an abandoned city and wakes the next morning to find a man named Pete running from a Tripod.

Shackleford and Sissy are dying of a virus lethal to the Tripods, and he convinces George to inject his infected blood into himself.

There, George injects his infected blood into a pod holding a brain telepathically connected to all of the Tripods and thus deactivates the invasion.

George survives the infection and the humans celebrate while listening to the radio which undergoes some static interference indicating a third invasion.

Blu-Ray.com gave the film 1.5 stars out of 5, finding that while it opens well, it quickly falls apart, becoming a jumbled mess.