Here is my top 50 list.

If Alien is going to be classed more horror than Sci-Fi, I hope the hounds of Dem will be unleashed if anyone includes - Event Horizon or Carpenter's 'The Thing' as they both have far more horror in them than sci-fi. :doorscare:

I'm also looking forward to learning about more films from you all, this thread is great. :) :skull:

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Vipp's Top 50 Sci-Fi Films.

01. Fantastic Planet (1973)
02. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
03. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
04. The Thing from another World (1951)
05. A Boy and his Dog (1975)
06. Logan’s Run (1976)
07. Robocop
08. Forbidden Planet (1956)
09. Soylent Green (1973)
10. The Fly (1986)
11. The Incredible shrinking man (1957)
12. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
13. The Day of the Triffids (1962/3)
14. 2001: A Space Odyssey
15. The War of the Worlds (1953)
16. The Brain that wouldn’t Die (1962)
17. The Matrix
18. Westworld (1973)
19. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
20. Earth VS The flying saucers (1956)
21. They Live (1988)
22. The Minority Report (2002)
23. Quatermass and the Pit (1968)
24. Total Recall (1990)
25. Serenity (2005)
26. Moon (2009)
27. Silent Running (1972)
28. The Quiet Earth (1985)
29. The Omega Man (1971)
30. Starship Troopers
31. The Terminator (1984)
32. Robocop 2
33. Jurassic Park
34. The Fly (1958)
35. The Abyss (1989)
36. WALL-E (2008)
37. TRON (1982)
38. The Fifth Element
39. Star Wars (1977)
40. Mad Max 2: Road Warrior
41. Brazil (1985)
42. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
43. The Island (2005)
44. Children of Men (2006)
45. Equilibrium (2002)
46. Atolladero (1995)
47. Aliens (1986)
48. Solaris (2002)
49. Sunshine (2007)
50. Back to the Future

I'm waiting till I've seen Interstellar next Friday before I make my list...

Interesting lists everybody.

I'm going to wait until the horror list is completed and Halloween is out of the way before I post mine.

Edited. Day of the Dead is very stretching it i admit.

1.Metropolis 1927
2.Planet of The Vampires 1965 (Never seen it but I KNOW I will love it, its a Bava film after all!)
3.Hardware 1990
4.Island of Lost Souls 1932
5.Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931
6.Jurassic Park 1993
7.Aliens 1986
8.The Man With the X-Ray Eyes 1963
9.Shivers 1975
10.Pacific Rim 2013
11.Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978
12.The Dead Zone 1983
13.The Bride of Frankenstein 1935
14.Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell 1973
15.Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
16.The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951
17.The Invisible Man 1933
18.District 9 2009
19.Cube 1998
20.28 Days Later… 2002
21.The Thing 1982
22.The Host 2006
23.Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956
24.Phase IV 1974
25.Them! 1954
26.Children of Men 2006
27.RoboCop 1987
28.Alien 1979
29.Lucy 2014
30.Blade Runner 1982
31.Starship Troopers 1997
32.Prometheus 2012
33.Split Second 1992
34.Pitch Black 2000
35.The Mist 2007t
36.The Iron Giant 1999
37.The Faculty 1998
38.Tremors 1990
39.Frankenhooker 1990
40.The Kindred 1987
41.Young Frankenstein 1974
42.Return of the Living Dead III 1993
43.From Beyond 1986
44.Alien: Resurrection 1997
45.Frankenstein Created Woman 1967
46.Critters 2 1988
47.Predator 2 1990
48.Frankenstein’s Army 2013
49.Flatliners 1990
50.The Terminator 1984

Why doesn't everyone just put Planet of The Vampires instead?

Putting a lot of fate in a film you have never seen as your number 2

It will be on my list. :nod:

Indeed... I can't see how you can validate a list where you're voting for a film you've never seen before!

If anyone can tell where i can see a decent copy I will watch it as soon as i can.

Im watching Coherence (2014) tomorrow so that might turn up on the list.

It's out on Blu Ray from Scorpion.Mine arrived today.

One of the most beautiful looking sci-fi films ever.

The colours are amazing.

Looked on Amazon, sold out :(

MovieTyme - Planet of the Vampires DVD - Cult


Planet of the Vampires (Scorpion Releasing) (Blu-Ray)

Is Kino's Blu region free?

'Fraid not mate.

1. Metropolis.
2. Blade runner.
3. Runaway
4. Until the end of the world
5. Wide Blue yonder.
6. Colossus the Forbin project
7. Beyond the Black rainbow
8. The Fly (cronenberg)
9. The Thing (carpenter)
10. Hardware.
11. Wrath of Kahn
12. Black hole (disney)
13. Tron
14. Tron legacy.
15. Alien
16. Aliens
17. Alien 3
18. Galaxy of terror
19. Forbidden world.
20. Earth dies screaming.
21. Panic in the year zero
22. Last man on earth (vincent price)
23. Food of the gods (AIP)
24. Planet of the Vampires.
25. Night of the big heat.
26. They live.
27. Escape from new york.
28. Chosaen surviviors.
29. Planet of the apes (Chuck heston version)
30. Outland.
31. Invasion of the Body snatchers. (Don siegel)
32. Invasion of the Body snatchers (phillip Kaufman)
33. Bodysnatchers (abel ferrarer)
34. Silent running
35. Flight of the Navigator
36. Crash and burn
37. Robot jox
38. Terminator
39. Terminator 2.
40. Matrix
41. Last Starfighter.
42. Ghost in the shell
42. Ghost in the shell 2 innocence.
43. Akira.
44. Pacific rim
45. Roujin z.
46. Memories.
47. Cowboy beebop the movie
48. Arcadia of my youth. (THE captain harlock movie)
49. 10th victim
50. Battle Royale.
51. Back to the Future.
52. Jurassic Park
53. Plan nine from outer space.
54. Quatermass Xperiment
55. Quatermass 2
56. Quatermass and the pit.
57. Turkey shoot.
58. Contamination.
59. Rats night of Terror
60. Mad Max 2: Road warrior
61: Mad Max
62. Robocop
63. Starship troopers.
64. Empire of the ants.
65: It: Terror from beyond space.
66: Critters.
67: Critters 2
68: Critters 3
69: Critters 4.
70: Jason X
71: The Worlds end.
72: The Dark hour.
73: Time crimes.
74: Cube
75: Cube 2 hypercube
76: Cube 0
77: Running man
78 Total recall.
79: Star wars
80: Empire strikes back
81: Return of the Jedi
82: Primer.
83: Videodrome
84: Exiztenz.
85: Gravity.
86: God Told me to.
87: Predator
88:Predator 2
89: Predators.
90: Altered states
91: Chronicles of Riddick.
92: Pitch black.
93: Riddick.
94: Westworld
95: Soylent Green
96: Rise of the planet of the apes.
97: Dawn of the planet of the apes
98: Beneath the Planet of the apes
99: Battle for the planet of the apes
100: Conquest of the planet of the apes

So we're not all doing the same length lists then, I'll just do a top 30 or something.

1.Blade Runner
2.Star Wars
3.Empire Strikes Back
4.2001 A Space Odyssey
5.Alien
6.The Thing ( 1982)
7.Escape from New York
8.Scanners
9.Moon
10.They Live
11.Mad Max
12.Gravity
13.Aliens
14.Predator
15.Planet of the Apes
16.Quatermass and the Pit
17.Silent Running
18.Return of the Jedi
19.Terminator
20.Robocop
21.Village of the Damned
22.Twelve Monkeys
23.Metropolis
24.The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951)
25.Mad Max 2
26.Logans Run
27.Dark Star
28.District 9
29.Close Encounters of the Third Kind
30.This Island Earth
31.Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1956)
32.Inception
33.Prometheus
34.Contact
35.Total Recall
36.THX 1138
37.The Omega Man
38.The Day of the Triffids
39.The Incredible Shrinking Man
40.Videodrome
41.Tremors
42.The Fly (1986)
43.Jurassic Park
44.Outland
45.Capricorn One
46.Enemy Mine
47.The Time Machine
48.The Invisible Man ( 1933)
49.The Thing from Another World
50.The Quatermass Experiment
51.Forbidden Planet
52.Europa Report
53.The Matrix
54.Night of the Big Heat
55.When Worlds Collide
56.Dredd
57.Children of Men
58.X-Files (1998)
59.The Land that Time Forgot
60.Them
61.Superman(1978)
62.Battle Beyond the Stars
63.Saturn 3
64.Soylent Green
65.Westworld
66.Communion
67.Brainstorm
68.Island of Terror
69.Avatar
70.The Black Hole
71.Trancers
72.Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1978)
73.Terminator 2
74.Hardware
75.Bug
76.Xtro
77.Repo Man
78.The Quiet Earth
79.Sunshine
80.The Philadelphia Experiment
81.201
82.Threads
83.The Machine
84.Minority Report
85.A.I
86.Mission to Mars
87.The Abyss
88.Coma
89.Attack of the 50ft Woman
90.Starship Troopers
91.Dune
92.The Man with X-Ray Eyes
93.Trog
94.Strange Invaders
95.Phase IV
96.The Stepford Wives
97.Event Horizon
98.Runaway
99.DefCon 4
100.The Incredible Melting Man

Does Threads count seeing as it's tv?

If so i'll be loading my list with a certain tv programme.

It was a sci-fi movie, although made for t.v so not sure if allowed :confused:
still good though :popcorn:

I agree with you. :nod:

Tv movies are different to episodic programmes. :mmph:

Shame as i would have liked to throw in some Doctor Who, Day of the Triffids, The Nightmare Man, Blakes-7 etc. :lol:

You could always put in the Peter Cushing jobs.;)

That goes without saying. :lol:

I nearly included the Peter Cushing Dr Who's but there were sooo many to choose from, perhaps the next list could be horror/sci-fi t.v episodes? These lists are great, after compiling my sci-fi list I realise how much effort people are putting in. It is helping me compile another list of 'need to see' films.

...and that one with Paul McGann! :tongue1:

My rough preliminary list:

1 Solaris (1972)
2 Videodrome (1983)
3 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
4 Alien (1979)
5 Brazil (1985)
6 Alphaville (1965)
7 The Invisible Man (1933)
8 Threads (1984)
9 A Trip to the Moon (1902)
10 The Holy Mountain (1973)
11 A Clockwork Orange (1971)
12 The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
13 Repo Man (1984)
14 Blade Runner (1982)
15 Frankenstein (1931)
16 Silent Running (1972)
17 Melancholia (2011)
18 Hardware (1990)
19 Stalker (1979)
20 The Fly (1986)
21 Shivers (1975)
22 Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
23 Beyond the Black Rainbow (2011)
24 Delicatessen (1991)
25 Fantastic Planet (1973)
26 The Terminator (1984)
27 Tron (1982)
28 The Thing (1982)
29 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
30 Moon (2009)
31 Krull (1983)
32 Planet of the Vampires (1965)
33 Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
34 Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
35 Flash Gordon (1980)
36 The Prestige (2006)
37 The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
38 Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
39 Southland Tales (2007)
40 Demon Seed (1977)
41 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
42 The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
43 The Last Man on Earth (1964)
44 Village of the Damned (1960)
45 Metropolis (1927)
46 Prince of Darkness (1987)
47 Re-Animator (1985)
48 A Boy and His Dog (1975)
49 Island of Lost Souls (1933)
50 The Thing from Another World (1951)
51 Altered States (1980)
52 Miracle Mile (1988)
53 Event Horizon (1997)
54 From Beyond (1986)
55 The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
56 Woman in the Moon (1929)
57 La Jetée (1962)
58 World on a Wire (1973)
59 Lifeforce (1985)
60 Predator (1987)
61 RoboCop (1987)
62 Total Recall (1990)
63 They Live (1988)
64 The Hidden (1987)
65 The Stuff (1985)
66 Her (2013)
67 Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
68 God Told Me To (1976)
69 Quatermass 2 (1957)
70 Jurassic Park (1993)
71 Ghostbusters (1984)
72 Gandahar (1988)
73 Young Frankenstein (1974)
74 The Road Warrior (1981)
75 The City of Lost Children (1995)
76 The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
77 Dark Star (1974)
78 Donnie Darko (2001)
79 2019 - After the Fall of New York (1983)
80 Scanners (1981)
81 The Blob (1988)
82 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
83 The Matrix (1999)
84 Children of the Damned (1963)
85 Liquid Sky (1982)
86 On the Silver Globe (1988)
87 Primal Impulse (1975)
88 Xtro (1983)
89 Forbidden Zone (1982)
90 The Asphyx (1973)
91 The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
92 The Dead Zone (1983)
93 Kin-Dza-Dza (1986)
94 Dark City (1998)
95 Turkey Shoot (1982)
96 Prey (1978)
97 Timecrimes (2007)
98 Forbidden Planet (1956)
99 X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
100 1984 (1984)

A few I'm not sure about... Ghostbusters for instance. Whilst it undoubtedly has sci-fi overtones it looks a little out of place (as do a few others).

Great list, cant believe I missed off The Blob, I even like the remake. some films on there Ive never heard of ( more for my 'to see list') and some I never thought about even though Ive seen them. A boy and his dog, cult stuff.

Thanks - I may tweak it a bit yet.

Damn! That was my surprise wildcard. :lol:

I suppose The Day of the Doctor as well seeing as it had a cinema release in the UK and US among other countries.

Wow, a few of the lists here are shocking. Not what i expected would have cropped up at all.

I'm wondering in regards to the merits of making the list Sci-Fi and Fantasy, considering there is often quite a bit of cross-over. between genres...

...feel free to stone me to death if desired. :mob:

Fantasy should be a separate thread, it's quite the opposite of sci-fi.

Often hard to define though in its own right I find.

I do get your point though, and we're probably better not over-complicating things.

Sci-fi looks toward the future, with possibilities in science and technology. Fantasy is Lord of the Rings crap with magic and goblins (you can tell I'm not a fan lol).

What's sometimes hard to define is when a film with sci-fi elements is a sci-fi or not, I've noticed in these lists loads of films that aren't sci-fi outright.

:eek: Your comment about The Lord of the Rings is nearly ass offensive as putting Robocop at 61 on your list.

Shocking. In what way Vipp?

I have been a little ill the past couple of days so i will PM you just in case i'm being silly. :)

Haha, in fairness I always say Lord of the Rings is good but just not for me, I'm not into the fantasy genre at all :)

I agree in not over complicating things, each to their own, and if you think one film is not sci-fi and someone else does, then apart from 'stonning them to death' they are not likely to change their minds and that is what makes this site great for me! For example, if somebody goes back in time or across dimensions, using science and technology, in a mutts nuts of a space ship and ends up in a troll and dragon infested world where does this sit? Can anyone think of a movie like this and what is it classed as if so? :pop2:

Agree. Technically Star wars is fantasy. Also its possible to list stuff technically sci-fi. For example I listed Werner Herzogs Wide blue Yonder which is a sci-fi despite being Brad dourif turning up at a bunch of places and talking.