Subgenre Sampler
Science Fiction: 1571 Films to Buy & Rent
Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (Kiss In Attack Of The Phantom!) (1978)
- Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley…
- Filmed at the height of KISS's popularity, this glorious piece of 70's rock 'n' roll camp pits the cosmic, cosmeticized crusaders against a…
Lupin the Third: Secret of Mamo (1978)
- Dir. Soji Yoshikawa
- The first in a popular series of films featuring "Lupin III" (based on the graphic novels by Monkey Punch), this nostalgically–styled manga…
Quatermass (TV Mini Series) (1978)
- Dir. Piers Haggard
Feat. John Mills, Simon MacCorkindale
- Sir John Mills gives a great late performances as the legendary 1950s hero Professor Quatermass in this TV mini–series conclusion to Nigel…
Star Wars Holiday Special, The (1978)
- Dir. Steve Binder
Feat. Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford…
- A TV christmas special set in the Star Wars universe that was the first Star Wars spin–off film, set between the events of the original film…
Starcrash (1978)
- Dir. Luigi Cozzi
Feat. Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro, David Hasselhoff…
- Galactic adventure following a pair of smugglers who take on the evil Count Zartharn who is developing a mysterious and deadly weapon.
Very much a…
Superman (1978)
- Dir. Richard Donner
Feat. Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman
- Christopher Reeve is the Man of Steel in the first and best adventure – from his humble inception through to…
Warlords of Atlantis (1978)
- Dir. Kevin Connor
Feat. Doug McClure, Peter Gilmore, Shane Rimmer
- Enjoyably hokey British sci–fi adventure film about a perilous trip to the lost world of Atlantis where Doug McClure and his expedition…
Alternative 3 (1977)
- Dir. Christopher Miles
Feat. Tim Brinton
- Public fear (or gullibility) was exposed with this hoax science report proposing three drastic alternatives to then–emerging hysteria around…
Children of the Stones (TV Mini-Series) (1977)
- Dir. Peter Graham Scott
Feat. Gareth Thomas, Iain Cuthbertson
- A spooky classic of British television, in which a scientist and his son move to the village of Milbury, only to be sucked into a quasi–pagan…
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Special Edition (1977)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut
- Richard Dreyfuss embodies a working class lineman who is chosen by a higher power for some great purpose. With a head full of ambiguous images and…