Sci-Fi

  • Vladimir Bortko – Sobache serdtse AKA Heart of a Dog (1988)

    1981-1990ComedySci-FiUSSRVladimir Bortko

    Professor Preobrazhensky and his colleague place some human parts into a dog named Sharik. Soon the dog transforms into a human.

    Quote:
    This movie (and yes, it’s a movie – it was shot as a two-parter, but the two parts together come down to slightly more than 2 hours) is one of the unsung masterpieces of world cinema. A very well-mannered, and yet at the same time absolutely savage denunciation of the Soviet regime and the type of person who flourished under it, the film is a faithful adaptation of the long-banned eponymous book by Mikhail Bulgakov. Read More »

  • Nazim Tulyahodzhayev – Veld AKA The Veldt (1987)

    1981-1990HorrorNazim TulyakhodzayevSci-FiUSSR

    Two children get a present from their parents, an electronic game. Via gigantic television screens, Peter and Wendy lose themselves for days in the African “veldt” and watch with excitement as lions devour antelopes.

    Meanwhile, strange things take place outside the house: An atmosphere of hostility forms in the city, and the citizens are unsettled by the materialization of ghosts and the memories of their loved ones…Read More »

  • Kihachi Okamoto – Burû Kurisumasu AKA UFO Blue Christmas (1978)

    1971-1980DramaJapanKihachi OkamotoSci-Fi

    UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new “blue-bloods” being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.Read More »

  • Sebastián Cordero – Europa Report (2013)

    2011-2020Sci-FiSebastián CorderoThrillerUSA

    An international crew of astronauts undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter’s fourth largest moon.Read More »

  • Brandon Cronenberg – Antiviral (2012)

    2011-2020Brandon CronenbergCanadaHorrorSci-Fi

    Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. Biological communion – for a price. Syd also supplies illegal samples of these viruses to piracy groups, smuggling them from the clinic in his own body. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills super sensation Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and rabid fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding her death before he suffers the same fate.Read More »

  • Montgomery Tully – The Terrornauts (1967)

    1961-1970Montgomery TullySci-FiUnited Kingdom

    When he inadvertently contacts an alien race, astronomer Dr. Joe Burke, accompanied by his building and those within it, is transported to another galaxy. Upon arrival, the humans see a futuristic scenario of Earth’s fate, as this barbaric world was once a civilized society. Terrornauts is based on a Will F. Jenkins novel, The Wailing Asteroid which Jenkins published under his pseudonym of Murray Leinster.Read More »

  • Vic Savage – The Creeping Terror (1964)

    1961-1970CultSci-FiUSAVic Savage

    IMDB Review wrote:
    I usually get a kick out of watching science fiction movies made forty or more years ago, especially those where the inside of the spaceship is so spacious with an enormously large amount of headroom, the astronauts dressed like factory workers, the equipment on board looking hopelessly cumbersome gawky and ineffectual. The story line was usually lame and the special effects usually extremely amateurish and sometimes laughable. But to some extent or other they are good fun to watch and are funny since no sensible person could possibly take such movies seriously. Read More »

  • Maurice Elvey – High Treason [Sound Version] (1929)

    1921-1930Maurice ElveySci-FiUSA

    Plot:
    World peace is threatened when the “United States of Europe” comes into conflict with the “Empire of the Atlantic States”. The former comprises Europe, India, the Middle East, Canada, Africa and Australasia. The latter is a combination of the United States and South America.Read More »

  • Maurice Elvey – High Treason (1929)

    1921-1930Maurice ElveySci-FiSilentUnited Kingdom

    An unlikely film for Maurice Elvey to direct, this is a 1930s vision of what life might be like twenty years later. The film was made in two versions – silent and sound – this is the silent version (and literally silent, no soundtrack on this one). So this is something of an oddity: A British silent sci-fi film! There aren’t many of those around.Read More »

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