SPOILERS: earth had no idea but there was aliens watching them, they planted the machines millions of years ago, planning an execution of the planet. Ray his son Robby and daughter racheal where at his house to stay for a bit, suddenly a huge storm cloud gathered and very strong winds began to blow TOWARDS the storm, lightning, but NO thunder it got heavy to the point they ran inside, the 26 hits of lightning hit the same spot very loudly, when ray went to investigate the hit started to crack and the ground moved, a huge machine emerged, then a loud HORN from it a terrifying one... It then started to charge up something, little did they know... ZAP ZZZZZ ZAP it was shooting weird lazers and killing everyone Ray escaped... The dust of the remains of people were everywhere... (one scene) the first tripod https://youtu.be/DtM3UTktVWI

BLOOD SPRAYING EXPLAINED: The tripods collected people and put them in cages, then grabbed them with a strange tentacle, sucked them up and GRINDED them into nothing but blood...(ik freaky and dark) then spray the people's blood to fertalize the red weed, the red weed killed the planet and was spreaded fast it was made of humans... (one scene) captured and grinded https://youtu.be/Ck7NepZGA_g