Sci-Fi

  • Marco Ferreri – Il Seme dell’uomo aka The seed of man (1969)

    Arthouse1961-1970ItalyMarco FerreriSci-Fi

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    During a Post-Apocalyptic period in the near future the majority of the European population has been wiped out by some sort of undefined plague. Cino and Dora, a young couple, are rounded up by what constitutes the authorities on an isolated temporary base. They are examined and given antibiotics which will protect them for six months, told to pick out a deserted house to live in the area, and use that time to conceive a child. They are later visited by an enigmatic group of black-clothed, initially threatening vigilantes who are evidently satisfied with the couple when they hear that a child is contemplated. However, despite her evident fondness for Cino, Dora is reluctant to try to conceive a baby. Then their domestic tranquility is interrupted by a beautiful French interloper who seems as if she is more than willing to fill in for Nora and conceive Cino’s children.Read More »

  • Luitz-Morat – La Cité foudroyée AKA The City Destroyed (1924)

    1921-1930FranceLuitz-MoratSci-FiSilent

    A crazed scientist planning to rule the world decides to destroy the city of Paris with his lightning/ray gun.Read More »

  • Richard Viktorov – Kometa AKA A Comet (1984)

    1981-1990ComedyRichard ViktorovSci-FiUSSR

    In a small coastal town,in the middle of the summer,the beaches are overcrowded,every piece of land occupied by tents and the cars of the tourists.A small group of filmmakers decide to shoot here a “masterpiece” by putting on a fake bank a ship.Suddenly,the crowd spreads the rumor that a comet will fall to the Earth very soon.At the last moment the most savvy vacationers decide to save themselves from a certain death by making some last minute unexpected changes in the script…Read More »

  • Mika Kaurismäki – Jackpot 2 (1982)

    1981-1990FinlandMika KaurismäkiSci-FiShort Film

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    Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys’ sole purpose of life is to play a Flip-Flop pinball machine.Read More »

  • Donald G. Jackson & R.J. Kizer – Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)

    USA1981-1990ComedyDonald G. JacksonR.J. KizerSci-Fi

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    After a nuclear war, the survivors are divided between horribly mutated beings who live on desolate reservations and fertile women who are searching for scarce virile men in order to multiply and start a new human society.Read More »

  • Alfredo B. Crevenna – Santo el Enmascarado de Plata vs ‘La invasión de los marcianos’ AKA Santo vs The Martian Invasion (1967)

    1961-1970Alfredo B. CrevennaCultMexicoSci-Fi

    The Martians are invading… who will save the planet? Why Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, of course!

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    In this Mexican sci-fi fantasy, big beefy Martians invade the earth. Ostensibly they have come to warn people about the dangers of nuclear testing and exploring space, but too soon their real mission becomes manifest when they begin using their special powers and gadgets, including an airborne eyeball that shoots out rays, to exploit weak earthlings. They also begin performing biological experiments on some of the people until a brave hero rushes in to destroy the alien craft. Before he does, he manages to woo two of the female Martians.Read More »

  • Vincent Ward – The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey (1988)

    1981-1990AdventureAustraliaSci-FiVincent Ward

    From IMDB:
    “A tantalizing meditation on faith, mystery, and imagination.

    Sometime in the Middle Ages, a group of men living in fear of the Black Death follow the visions of a nine year-old boy (Hamish MacFarlane) to go on a pilgrimage by digging a tunnel through the center of the earth (!) emerging instead in twentieth century New Zealand (!) where they try to complete their journey by erecting a cross atop a church steeple. A willing suspension of disbelief (or the kind of unquestioning faith that the main characters have) never hurts when watching something like this, but if you’re in the right frame of mind, this fable will gradually draw you into its tantalizing meditation on faith, mystery, and imagination.”Read More »

  • Richard Stanley – Incidents in an Expanding Universe (1985)

    1981-1990Richard StanleySci-FiShort FilmUnited Kingdom

    Here is a nice little student film directed by Richard Stanley (Hardware, Dust Devil). A future love story set amidst the decline of society and the rise of devastating mech wars. Stanley’s prototype for Hardware. The story and setting are consistent with Hardware for the first half, then diverge a bit more into the future wars behind the torrid love affairs and relationships of the story. Explains how Max’s (Moses’) robotic hand came to be. No killer robots, but there is a cameo of a Robotech action figure!Read More »

  • Richard Stanley – The Sea of Perdition (2006)

    2001-2010IcelandRichard StanleySci-FiShort Film

    Set on the planet Mars, The Sea of Perdition tells the story of a stranded astronaut (Maggie Moor), who discovers an ancient temple in the wilderness and whatever secrets it may hold.

    The Sea of Perdition was shot in Iceland in mid-2006, as a part of Errant Films’ IBM Film project, which consisted of five separate short films, all based upon the composition “The Sky’s gone dim and the Sun’s gone black” by the Icelandic composer Johann Johansson. The featured music is from the fifth part of his album, IBM 1401 – A User’s Manual.Read More »

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