The Top 20 Sci-Fi Films of the 21st. Some of them belong in the greatest-of-all.80's Sci-Fi Movies Martin Guzman; 36 videos; 86,647 views. Play next; Play now; Star Knight by Garbage Cinema. B movies (Transition in the 1. The 1. 95. 0s mark a significant change in the definition of the B movie. The transformation of the film industry due to court rulings that brought an end to many long- standing distribution practices as well as the challenge of television led to major changes in U. S. These shifts signaled the eventual demise of the double feature that had defined much of the American moviegoing experience during Hollywood's Golden Age of the 1. Even as the traditional bottom- of- the- bill second feature slowly disappeared, the term B movie was applied more broadly to the sort of inexpensive genre films that came out during the era, such as those produced to meet the demands of the burgeoning drive- in theater market. Fadeout of the classic B. After barely inching forward in the 1. U. S. With television airing many classic Westerns as well as producing its own original Western series, the cinematic market for B oaters in particular was drying up. The first prominent victim of the changing market was the Poverty Row studio Eagle- Lion, which released its last films in 1. By 1. 95. 3, the old Monogram brand had disappeared, the company having adopted the identity of its higher- end subsidiary, Allied Artists. The following year, Allied released Hollywood's last two B series Westerns, starring Wayne Morris: The Desperado in June and Two Guns and a Badge in September. In other genres, Universal maintained B series featuring Abbott and Costello (through 1. Francis the Talking Mule (through 1. Ma and Pa Kettle (through 1. The age of the hour- long feature film was now past; at 6. Two Guns and a Badge was about as short as Hollywood features ran. In sum, the Golden Age. B movie, however, continued to be used in a broader sense, referring to any low- budget genre film featuring relatively unheralded performers (. The term retained its earlier suggestion that such movies relied on formulaic plots, . At the same time, the realm of the B movie was becoming increasingly fertile territory for experimentation, both serious and outlandish. The B movie would usually have a much smaller budget and no star names. Sci-fi & B Movies ITrazar; 130 videos. The attack of the Satellites best Sci Fi movies of all times. B Movie by Adele Vaccaro. I'm trying to remember this sci-fi flick, from the early '80s. What is the name of this 80s horror movie where an abandoned cargo ship. Most of the B-movie production houses founded. Mutating genres. In short, low- budget pictures made for the production company she ran with her husband Collier Young, The Filmakers, Lupino explored virtually taboo subjects such as rape in 1. Outrage (released by RKO) and 1. The Bigamist (an entirely independent project). Her most famous directorial effort, The Hitch- Hiker (1. RKO release. Often referred to as the only classic film noir directed by a woman, it made a virtue of its small budget with an unusually intense focus on its three lead characters. Film historian Richard Maltby identifies it as a . For UA, these movies served to spread the overhead costs of their distribution operation rather than to make profits in themselves. It is based on an unequivocally pulpy source, one of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels, but is directed in a self- consciously aestheticized fashion by Robert Aldrich. The result is a brutal genre picture that chillingly evokes contemporary anxieties about what was often spoken of simply as the Bomb. Rocketship X- M (1. Lippert Pictures, is cited as possibly . Science fiction, horror, and various hybrids of the two were now of central economic importance to the low- budget end of the business. Most down- market films of the type. Director Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1. Walter Wanger for $3. Allied Artists, treats conformist pressures and the evil of banality in haunting, allegorical fashion. American International Pictures (AIP), founded in 1. James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff in a reorganization of their American Releasing Corporation (ARC), soon became the leading U. S. American International helped keep the original- release double bill alive through paired packages of its films: these movies were low- budget, but the economic model was different from that of the traditional B movie. Guided by experienced genre writer- producer Herman Cohen, the movie starred a twenty- year- old Michael Landon. As its title suggests, AIP sought audiences not only with fantastic genre subjects, but also with new, teen- oriented angles. One exemplary film, Daddy- O (aka Out on Probation; 1. With the Beat and the Heat of Today's Rock- N- Roll Generation!? Result: Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1. AIP is credited with having . In Bill Osgerby's description, these films . Augustine, if not the Hollywood hills themselves. It includes all the staples of the exploitation film. Later that year, he independently produced his first movie, The Monster from the Ocean Floor, on a $1. Within a few months he would direct Day the World Ended, half of Arkoff and Nicholson's first twin- bill package, and one of the first AIP films, It Conquered the World. Corman would go on to direct over fifty feature films through 1. As of 2. 00. 7, he remained active as a producer, with more than 3. Often referred to as the . He prefers to describe his metier as . As you enter the theatre you will receive instructions how to guard yourself against attack by THE TINGLER! A long- time director and producer of mostly low- end movies for Columbia, including several entries in the studio's Whistler detective series, he left in 1. Susina Productions with writer Robb White. Castle was the great innovator of the B- movie publicity gimmick. Audiences of Macabre (1. Allied Artists, were invited to take out insurance policies to cover potential death from fright. With this film and his next collaboration with White, House on Haunted Hill (1. Allied release, Castle . As of January 1, 1. United States; a decade later, the number had passed 3,7. The phenomenon of the drive- in movie became one of the defining symbols of American popular culture in the 1. Over the course of the decade, many local television stations began showing B genre films in late- night slots, popularizing the notion of the midnight movie. In the spring of 1. Los Angeles TV station KABC expanded on the concept by having an appropriately offbeat host introduce the films: on Saturday nights, The Vampira Show, with Maila Nurmi as the titular MC, screened low- budget horror and suspense movies, including at least one that would become a cult classic. Ulmer's Detour, produced in 1. Variations on the Vampira format were soon running at stations around the country. Between 1. 95. 1 and 1. Lippert Pictures and low- budget British studio Hammer Film Productions had a distribution deal that brought such pictures as Stolen Face (1. Spaceways (1. 95. Atlantic to a few American screens. This led to Hammer's Dracula (1. U. S. Levine was the crucial U. S. In 1. 95. 6, low- budget producer Richard Kay acquired a Japanese creature feature, Godzilla, for $3. Levine financed the shooting of new footage with American actor Raymond Burr that was edited into the film. The Americanized version, Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, was distributed on the East Coast by Levine's Embassy Pictures.! Steve Reeves had appeared in all of two films previously; his debut was in the independent production Jail Bait (1. Ed Wood On top of a $1. Levine then spent $1. It would have, that is, had it not been that promoter Joseph E. Levine has launched the movie throughout the country with a deafening barrage of publicity. The exploitation film, which has been taken over by Warner Brothers for distribution, opened yesterday at 1. New York area alone. Just as valuable to the bottom line, it was even more successful overseas. As was not uncommon in series Westerns, Morris didn't play precisely the same character in the six B oaters he starred in for Allied Artists in 1. Even leaving aside the plots, the series nature of the films is evident from the credits: Vincent M. Fennelly produced all six pictures. Collins and Thomas Carr split directorial duties equally, each taking three. Ullman wrote four of the films. Three cinematographers each shot two of the films. IMDb. com Power Search performed 1. Lev (2. 00. 3), p. See Finler (2. 00. Finler lists The Country Girl as 1. December 1. 95. 4. The Seven Year Itch replaces it in this analysis (the two films happen to be virtually identical in length).^See, e. Eddie Muller, Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (New York: St. Maltby (2. 00. 0).^Shapiro (2. See also Atomic Films: The CONELRAD 1. CONELRAD website.^See Buhle and Wagner (2. For the political implications of the Katzman- produced Earth vs. Lev (2. 00. 3), pp. Braucort (1. 97. 2), 7. Buhle and Wagner (2. Auty (1. 99. 9), p. See also Shapiro (2. Osgerby (2. 00. 3).^Quoted in Denisoff and Romanowski (1. Di Franco (1. 97. In fact, it appears that Corman made at least one true B picture. Heffernan (2. 00. Many general film history sources, in describing the growth of the drive- in market, claim that there were approximately 3. U. S. Segrave's January 1, 1. Film Daily reports. A number of sources, including several online, cite a figure of 1. As Segrave shows, this is properly identified as the figure for January 1, 1. The Vampira Show is often described as having screened primarily or exclusively horror movies; as a complete listing of the films shown during its run reveals, suspense pictures often appeared: The Vampira Show. See Movies at Midnight. Retrieved 1. 1/1. Kinsey (2. 00. 5), p. Exchange rate per Economic History Services. Heffernan (2. 00. Heffernan (2. 00. Heffernan (2. 00. Kinsey (2. 00. 5), p. Exchange rate per Economic History Services.^Allison (2. Note that Allison incorrectly identifies Levine's company as Trans World Films, which was actually the movie's West Coast distributor.^. Retrieved 4/1. 1/0. Allison (2. 00. 6), p. Nason (1. 95. 9).^Hirschhorn (1. Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. ISBN 0- 5. 20- 2. Auty, Chris (1. 99. London et al.: Penguin, p. ISBN 0- 1. 4- 0. 28. XBraucort, Guy (1. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice- Hall, pp. ISBN 0- 1. 3- 7. 95. Buhle, Paul, and David Wagner (2. Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1- 4. 03. 9- 6. Greatest Sci- Fi Movies of the 9. Movies and TVListverse Staff. April 1. 6, 2. 00. NOTE: This is the second submission of this list. The first submission proved quite unpopular because I ranked movies according to Rotten Tomatoes freshness and my decision to include The Sixth Sense, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm and Princess Mononoke. The criticisms are well taken; so, this is the list as I originally wrote it MINUS the three afore- mentioned movies. To make it an even 2. I threw Contact back in from an earlier version, even though I dislike the movie. While the technical quality of sci- fi leapt forward during the 1. Star Wars era. Many of the movies that Hollywood produced in the 1. No one knew, especially that schlock- fest. On the plus side, at least half of the movies that made the cut were not big- budget blockbusters. And like the 1. 98. Japanese anime. Notable and deliberate omissions: Apollo 1. Despite the gee- whiz special effects, stirring speeches and fun characters, Independence Day was just stupid. The three most egregious . Those three things ruin the experience. It took a while for this Charlie Sheen sci- fi thriller to grow on me. Co- starring the late Ron Silver, The Arrival is a fast- paced sci- fi thriller featuring Sheen as radio astronomer Zane Ziminski who detects what appear to be alien signals. Mysteriously fired for showing his findings, Ziminski gets thrown into a wild conspiracy that leads to a disturbing discovery. Players literally jack into a virtual reality game by plugging a connection into their spine. Talk about literally putting you in the game! I didn. For example, the motivation for Jake Busey. In fact, the whole film. Still, the film is intriguing and doesn? The final 1. 5 or so minutes make sitting through the rest of the film worthwhile. Yes, this is a guilty pleasure, but unlike most other big- budget popcorn flicks, this movie never takes itself seriously. The first time I saw this movie I had so much fun it didn. The second time I tried to watch it with a critical eye, but wound up not caring again while I was having so much fun. If you take this movie seriously (like Independence Day), then you. If you take it for a light- hearted, shoot- . Bruce Willis stars as a world- weary cab driver (are all heroes now . It seems like the cast just had a blast making this movie, including Ian Holm as the bumbling priest, the late and great Byron James as Dallas. And frankly, Chris Tucker is what makes this movie for me (some people hate his character, though). The Truman Show is an intriguing movie where Truman (Jim Carrey) lives out his entire life as an unwitting participant in a wildly popular reality TV show about his life. But one day, a stage light falls from the . Heavy with overtones of Moby Dick, First Contact features our heroes battling the cybernetic Borg for the future of Earth. A little corny in places (Dr. Cochran says to the Enterprise crew members from the future: . Agents K (Tommy Lee Jones) and J (Will Smith) of the Men in Black maintain earth as a . Best line: When J puts on his black suit and shades for the first time, he tells K: . With a gorgeous John Williams soundtrack, believable f/x and a typically. By necessity, the movie is thinner than the novel. When they opened Disneyland in 1. An Avon lady (delightfully played by Dianne Wiest) discovers the abandoned Edward, who still has several blades and scissors for hands and fingers. Sort of an update of the Frankenstein story. La Cit. Somewhat grotesque, it. His search centered upon a group of radical animal rights fanatics led by Brad Pitt? This well- received post- apocalyptic flick is based on 1. Tim Allen plays the William- Shatner- like star of a defunct TV series called Galaxy Quest (heh). He and his former cast- mates spend time slumming at sci- fi conventions. Totally rips/plays up great sci- fi and Trek stereotypes, such as Sigorney Weaver. Ethan Hawke stars as Vincent, who is born without the aid of genetic manipulation, and therefore becomes an instant outcast in a future society that values genetic manipulation before birth. Well worth the time to watch. Jin- Roh: The Wolf Brigade. If you. Jin- Roh is my favorite such flick, and one of my all- time favorites of any genre. Loosely based on a manga series, Jin- Roh is set in an alternate history of post- war Japan, where an elite force, called the Kerberos Panzer Cops, is an above- the- law paramilitary unit that combats domestic terrorism. The protagonist, Kazuki Fuse, freezes when he confronts a . The girl detonates the bomb, causing widespread damage; a friend saves the frozen Kazuki from certain death. Kazuki, ordered back to training, starts a tortured relationship with dead girl. Jin- Roh is beautifully made film. Panzer Cops are equipped like WWII German soldiers, right down to their helmets and MP- 4. The wider story skillfully draws from the tale of Little Red Riding Hood . All- in- all, Jin- Roh is just superb. This well- received movie. Nevertheless, Pi (?) deftly explores how the life of a paranoid and recluse mathematical theorist goes out of control when he stumbles upon a formula for predicting the stock market. Contains a gruesome climax. While the second and third installments were such convoluted disappointments, the first Matrix movie was a mind- blowing trip. Programmer/hacker Neo goes searching for The Matrix. Neo comes to learn that he is . Highly influential with its f/x. A man wakes up in a hotel with no memory of who he is or what he. The Strangers, who can alter reality, time and memory, are actually parasitic aliens who are experimenting the nature versus nurture aspects of humanity. A man, Cesar, is horribly disfigured in an accident and begins to have many disorienting experiences. After he murders a woman he thinks is his ex- lover, Cesar learns that after the accident he was cryogenically frozen . Open Your Eyes was remade in 2. Vanilla Sky . Ranked #8. Online Film Critics Society. In fact, this cyberpunk sci- fi film is such a mind- trip that its influence is hard to underestimate. Like most great anime, Ghost in the Shell takes its inspiration from the manga of the same name. And like the best of all sci- fi, Ghost in the Shell seriously explores what it means to be human in a time of super- science. Motoko Kusanagi and her partner, Batou, are cyborgs who fight high- tech criminals. She chases after the elusive . Absolutely not to be missed. Originally, this was #1 on my list, but I moved it to number 2 at the last moment. Terminator 2: Judgment Day. This is one of the greatest sci- fi movies of all time, and it. The antagonist is the T- 1. Robert Patrick. What actually makes this movie great is not the action or the fun lines. Pay attention to Sarah Connor. Here, she is moody, brooding and full of horrible visions of the future that lead her to the brink of savagery. Her reaction immediately after shooting up the scientist. And who can forget the horrifying nuclear war dream segment? Listverse Staff. Listverse is a place for explorers. Together we seek out the most fascinating and rare gems of human knowledge. Three or more fact- packed lists daily. Read More: Twitter. Facebook. You. Tube. Sci- Fi Movies - You.
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