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Don't Worry Darling (2022): Dir. Olivia Wilde
Feat. Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine…; A 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his company could be hiding disturbing secrets.
Reminiscence (2021): Dir. Lisa Joy
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Thandiwe Newton…; Hugh Jackman plays a private investigator of the mind in this sci–fi action thriller set in a near future world destroyed by climate…
Mortal (Torden) (2020): Dir. André Øvredal
Feat. Nat Wolff, Iben Akerlie; Norwegian fantasy film inspired by Norse mythology, where a seemingly ordinary young man finds himself out of his depth when he discovers he has…
Possessor (2020): Dir. Brandon Cronenberg
Feat. Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland…; Brandon Cronenberg (ANTIVIRAL) wrote and directed this sci–fi horror about an assassin (Andrea Riseborough) who assumes control of other…
Joker (2019): Dir. Todd Phillips
Feat. Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz…; Brilliantly dark psychological thriller introducing Batman's arch nemesis as a traumatised loner who finds his voice in acts of violence. An achingly…
A Quiet Place (2018): Dir. John Krasinski
Feat. Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds…; A smart and creative horror movie made by John Krasinski, who also stars alongside his real–life spouse Emily Blunt as parents fighting for…
Darkest Minds, The (2018): Dir. Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Feat. Amandla Stenberg, Harris Dickinson, Mandy Moore…; Young adult dystopian thriller where the world is affected by a plague that kills almost every child in the human population, and those that remain…
Glass (2018): Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Feat. Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, James McAvoy…; An ambitious, unconventional superhero thriller that provides an intersection between the director M. Night Shyamalan's previous films Unbreakable…
Homecoming (TV Series) (2018): Dir. Sam Esmail
Feat. Julia Roberts, Bobby Cannavale, Stephen James…; Haunting psychological thriller with Julia Roberts playing a woman who discovers she has been working for a mysterious government facility. Season…
Upgrade (2018): Dir. Leigh Whannell
Feat. Logan Marshall-Green, Betty Gabriel, Harrison Gilbertson; Futuristic body horror about a man who "upgrades" his body using an AI implant called STEM after his wife is murdered – the kicker of the…
X-Files, The - Season 11 (TV Series) (2018): Dir. Chris Carter, James Wong, Glen Morgan
Feat. Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Mitch Pileggi; Likely to be the final ever X–Files season, remaining loyal to the themes and tone lovingly cultivated throughout previous seasons, but with…
Circle, The (2017): Dir. James Ponsoldt
Feat. Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega…; Dave Egger's 2013 novel is adapted into this gripping modern thriller with Emma Watson rising in the ranks of the world's largest and most powerful…
Counterpart (TV Series) (2017): Feat. J.K. Simmons, Olivia Williams, Ulrich Thomsen
Flatliners (2017): Dir. Niels Arden Oplev
Feat. Elliot Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev…; A dead–on–arrival resuscitation of the 1990 thriller in which five med students experiment with stopping their hearts for short periods…
Salvation (TV Series) (2017): Feat. Santiago Cabrera, Jennifer Finnigan, Charlie Rowe; Sci–fi suspense series about a grad student whose self–designed app discovers a giant asteroid is hurtling toward the planet and the…
What Happened To Monday (Seven Sisters) (2017): Dir. Tommy Wirkola
Feat. Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe; By the director of DEAD SNOW and featuring a dynamic performance from Noomi Rapace as seven different characters. A dystopian future government is…
Morgan (2016): Dir. Luke Scott
Feat. Kate Mara, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michelle Yeoh…; A flawed yet tense and thought–provoking sci–fi thriller about a corporate risk–management consultant who must decide whether or…
Coherence (2015): Dir. James Ward Byrkit
Feat. Emily Foxler, Nicholas Brendon; This inventive and mostly improvised zero–budget indie has been admirably compared to PRIMER and follows eight friends at a dinner party who…
Glitch (TV Series) (2015): Dir. Emma Freeman
Feat. Patrick Brammall, Emma Booth, Emily Barclay; Paranormal series set in small–town Australia with a cop investigating the case of seven people apparently rising from the dead.
Self/less (Selfless) (2015): Dir. Tarsem Singh
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Ben Kingsley, Matthew Goode…; High–concept, though convoluted thriller from Tarsem Singh (THE FALL) about a dying real estate mogul who transfers his consciousness into a…
Survivalist, The (2015): Dir. Stephen Fingleton
Feat. Martin McCann, Mia Goth, Andrew Simpson; In a kill–or–be–killed world where starvation is rife and strangers are always dangerous, one man lives off the grid, and by his…
Tale of Tales (2015): Dir. Matteo Garrone
Feat. Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones…; Wonderfully imaginative, cohesive portmanteau film comprised of three unusual, somewhat grotesque fairy tales featuring sea monsters, lustful kings…
Cure, The (2014): Dir. David Gould
Feat. Antonia Prebble, Stephen Lovatt, John Bach…; An American–accented medical thriller in which Antonia Prebble plays a scientist who discovers that the pharmaceutical company she works for is…
Signal, The (2014): Dir. William Eubank
Feat. Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Laurence Fishburne…; Three bright young students venture deep into the Nevada desert in search of a notorious hacker, and discover they have been drawn into an enigmatic…
Almost Human (TV Series) (2013): Feat. Karl Urban, Michael Ealy, Minka Kelly…; Futuristic sci–fi series set in the year 2048, where a human cop (Karl Urban) partners up with an android to fight crime as part of a new…
Double, The (2013): Dir. Richard Ayoade
Feat. Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn…; Richard Ayoade (SUBMARINE) directs this stylish Kafka–esque thriller about a government worker who is joined by his doppelganger.
Mindscape (Anna) (2013): Dir. Jorge Dorado
Feat. Mark Strong, Taissa Farmiga, Brian Cox…; Psychological thriller set in the near future, where a 'memory detective' is tasked with entering the mind of a troubled 16–year–old girl…
Under the Skin (2013): Dir. Jonathan Glazer
Feat. Scarlett Johansson; Jonathan Glazer (SEXY BEAST, BIRTH) directs screen siren Scarlett Johansson in this startlingly original sci–fi thriller about an alien…
Limitless (2011): Dir. Neil Burger
Feat. Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish…; Dynamic thriller in the hyper–reality genre that follows a struggling writer who discovers a top–secret brain–enhancing drug which…
Skin I Live In, The (2011): Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes…; Over twenty years after their last collaboration, a gracefully middle–aged Antonio Banderas returns for Spanish maestro Pedro Almodovar to play…
City Under Siege (2010): Dir. Benny Chan
Feat. Aaron Kwok, Colin Chou, Wu Jing…; One–of–a–kind Hong Kong mash–up has a group of criminals gaining super powers after being infected with a biological weapon,…
This is Not My Life (TV Series) (2010): Dir. Robert Sarkies
Feat. Charles Mesure, Tania Nolan, Ariana Brunet…; Set in a fictional New Zealand town in the 2020s, this high–end Kiwi production runs with a number of well–worn science–fiction…
Knowing (2009): Dir. Alex Proyas
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Lara Robinson…; Sci–fi thriller focused around a teacher (Cage) who opens up a time capsule from 50 years ago which unnervingly predicts accurate dates of past…
Push (2009): Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Camilla Belle, Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning…; Four telekinetic outcasts band together to expose a government conspiracy in this familiar, if crispy executed sci–fi thriller. Derives…
Blindness (2008): Dir. Fernando Meirelles
Feat. Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Danny Glover…; Psychological thriller set in a big city where a sudden epidemic of 'white blindness' strikes half the population, and those affected set up their…
Life on Mars (US TV Series) (2008): Feat. Harvey Keitel, Jason O'Mara, Michael Imperioli…; Polarizing remake of the British sci–fi success shares an identical premise – namely cop hit by car in present wakes up in 1973 –…
Splinter (2008): Dir. Toby Wilkins
Feat. Shea Whigham, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Wagner; Lean sci–fi thriller in which a couple and an escaped convict are trapped in a gas station by a deadly parasite intent on making their bodies…
Suspension (2008): Dir. Ethan Shaftel
Feat. Scott Cordes, Annie Tedesco, Caroline Vinciguerra; Independent sci–fi thriller in the TWILIGHT ZONE mold, concerning a man who loses his wife and son in a car accident, and subsequently…
28 Weeks Later (2007): Dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Harold Perrineau, Jr.…; Post–Apocalyptic sequel to 28 DAYS LATER takes place weeks after the Rage Virus outbreak, with a small community attempting to…
Bionic Woman, The (TV Series) (2007): Feat. Michelle Ryan, Miguel Ferrer, Molly Price…; Updated version of the 70's TV series about a female athlete who is gifted with bionic strength after a serious accident.
I Am Legend (2007): Dir. Francis Lawrence
Feat. Will Smith, Alice Braga; In the post–apocalyptic ruins of New York City, Will Smith is the (seemingly) sole survivor of a mutant cancer vaccine gone bung, which has…
Invasion, The (2007): Dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel
Feat. Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig; Riddled with flaws, yet entertaining enough to sustain attention, the third remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS centres on a Washington D.C.…
Time Crimes (Los Cronocrímenes Timecrimes) (2007): Dir. Nacho Vigalondo
Feat. Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernandez, Barbara Goenaga; Intricate, mind–bending Spanish gem following a man who trips back a fraction in time and inadvertently interferes with his past, present and…
Eureka (TV Series) (2006): Feat. Colin Ferguson, Greg Germann, Joe Morton…; Novel sci–fi series focused on a stranded U.S. Marshall who uncovers a remote hamlet populated by a community of hand–picked scientists…
Listening, The (2006): Dir. Giacomo Martelli
Feat. Michael Parks; Visually fetching spy thriller centred on a NSA officer on a mission to disable spy technology that enables the U.S. government to use phones as live…
Southland Tales (2006): Dir. Richard Kelly
Feat. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Mandy Moore…; A chaotically comedic, pre–apocalyptic sci–fi ensemble piece, helmed with self–importance and unrestraint by the…
Invasion (TV Series) (2005-2006): Feat. William Fichtner, Eddie Cibrian; Creeping sci–fi series concerning a small–town family who find their town bizarrely quarantined after a mysterious hurricane. Like a…
Underworld: Evolution (2005): Dir. Len Wiseman
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy; The slinky, rubber–clad Kate Beckinsale continues her Vampiric crusade against 'the Lycans' (Werewolves) in this obligatory sequel to the…
Control (2004): Dir. Tim Hunter
Feat. Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Rodriguez…; Ray Liotta is typically compelling as an unrepentant sociopath on 'death row', who, in return for his life, agrees to become a guinea pig in a…
Final Cut, The (2004): Dir. Omar Naim
Feat. Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino, Jim Caviezel…; Pertinent in an age where everything is over–recorded, and continuing a wave of films that play with memory, this sci–fi speculation from…
Forgotten, The (2004): Dir. Joseph Ruben
Feat. Julianne Moore, Gary Sinise, Alfre Woodard…; A year after her young son is killed in a plane crash, Julianne Moore is told by authorities that he never existed and that she is suffering from…
One Point 0 (1.0) (2004): Dir. Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Thorsson
Feat. Jeremy Sisto, Deborah Kara Unger, Udo Kier…; An inventive science–fiction speculation, set in a delapidated future world in which a computer programmer (Sisto) begins to get mysterious…
Butterfly Effect, The (2003): Dir. Eric Bress, J Mackye Gruber
Feat. Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Eric Stoltz; A timewarping thriller with a touch of genuine B–movie originality, this portrays the unintended consequences when its young hero (Kutcher)…
Code 46 (2003): Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton; A cerebral, provocative 'future shock' thriller in which Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton try to conduct a forbidden affair in a politically…
Equilibrium (2003): Dir. Kurt Wimmer
Feat. Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Emily Watson; Modest, but intelligent sci–fi thriller, where a policeman misses his daily dose of emotion–lowering drug Prozium and realises the…
Nemesis Game (2003): Dir. Jesse Warn
Feat. Carly Pope, Ian McShane, Rena Owen; Twisted, overly enigmatic thriller shot in New Zealand, that concerns a student's obsession with a high–stakes game of riddles. Noticing…
Paycheck (2003): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman…; Action–orientated version of a typically complex Phillip K Dick sci–fi story, in which hero Affleck must contend with wiped memories,…
Blade 2 (2002): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman…; Surpassing the original in both imagination and thrills, thanks primarily to dir. Del Toro (CRONOS), we again ride with…
Cypher (2002): Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu; A striking, coolly managed thriller, where future corporations mount elaborate espionage missions against each other using specially trained…
Demonlover (2002): Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloe Sevigny…; An insinuating future–shock Euro–thriller, with Connie Neilsen as an attractive corporate executive caught in the…
Minority Report (2002): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow…; An exhilarating science fiction thriller that lavishly realizes (and embellishes) a Philip K. Dick short story with the corporate muscle and…
Reign of Fire (2002): Dir. Rob Bowman
Feat. Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey; Fire–breathing dragons are woken from their millennial slumbers by repairmen in the London Underground, and begin laying waste to the earth in…
Vanilla Sky (2001): Dir. Cameron Crowe
Feat. Tom Cruise, Jason Lee, Cameron Diaz…; A straight Hollywood remake of the Spanish sci–fi thriller OPEN YOUR EYES by the director of ALMOST FAMOUS – the result of which plays like…
Frequency (2000): Dir. Gregory Hoblit
Feat. John Caviezel, Dennis Quaid; Time–travel thriller tuned to an interesting premise – a NYPD cop speaks to his dead father via a ham radio. Features some…
Hollow Man (2000): Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, James Brolin…; Unpleasant, one–dimensional sci–fi thriller that lavishes astonishing, groundbreaking special effects on a script that doesn't deserve…
Xchange (2000): Dir. Allan Moyle
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Stephen Baldwin; With more than a few IQ points, this MATRIX–like thriller centres round the concept of body–swapping, in which one changes bodies to cut…
Roswell (TV Series) (1999): Feat. Brendan Fehr, Katherine Heigl, Colin Hanks; A unique melding of science fiction, rites–of–passage drama and teen comedy, this television series, like BUFFY, developed a similiar…
Thirteenth Floor, The (1999): Dir. Josef Rusnak
Feat. Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Armin Mueller-Stahl; Handsomely designed but meandering virtual reality thriller with a now second–hand premise that flits between 1937 and 1999 and ultimately…
Cube (1998): Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Nicole De Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett…; More than meets the eye of this enthralling dark–horse B–movie from Canada. Five strangers find themselves thrown together in a…
Dark City (1998): Dir. Alex Proyas
Feat. Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly…; Advancing on earlier efforts like THE CROW, director Alex Proyas, fabricates a shadowy urban jungle, replete with echoes of earlier sci–fi…
Event Horizon (1997): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill; This sleek monstrosity is worth a look for some reasonably scary special effects or if you just want reminding of what a masterpiece ALIEN really is.…
Gattaca (1997): Dir. Andrew Niccol
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman; The big league writer/directing debut of ex–pat Wellingtonian and former London adman Niccol, is a highly intriguing thriller about the scary…
Mimic (1997): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam; A mutant strain of humanoid bugs come back to taunt entomologist Mira Sorvino, who enters into a fierce confrontation through the dank, falteringly…
Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos) (1997): Dir. Alejandro Amenabar
Feat. Eduardo Noriega, Penelope Cruz, Chete Lera; A surrealistic nightmare unfurled with Hitchcockian precision and irony, Eduardo Noriega plays a young–man–who–has–everything…
Arrival, The (1996): Dir. David Twohy
Feat. Charlie Sheen; Radio astronomer Charlie Sheen detects signs of intelligent life in outer space, and soon discovers hostile ET's, already intent on…
Island of Dr. Moreau (1996): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, Temuera Morrison; HG Wells' ever–timely tale of the perils of genetic science, featuring big–name Hollywood talent and a troubled production record, it…
Millennium (TV Series) (1996-1999): Feat. Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Klea Scott; Occult sci–fi series from the creator of The X–Files) following the investigations of ex–FBI agent Frank Black (Lance Henriksen),…
Johnny Mnemonic (1995): Dir. Richard Longo
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Ice-T…; Keanu Reeves as futuristic cyber courier, dude! Aimed well below the high–concept, author William Gibson gleefully cannibalizes much of his…
Strange Days (1995): Dir. Kathryn Bigelow
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis; Ralph Fiennes runs into all sorts of bother as a low–rent dealer of subversive pleasures encoded on diskettes. An ambitious,…
Virtuosity (1995): Dir. Brett Leonard
Feat. Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington; Russell Crowe plays a computer–generated composite of 200 serial killers who escapes cyberspace and proves a formidable opponent for…
Machine, La (1994): Dir. Francois Dupeyron
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye; Gerard Depardieu goes into mad–doctor mode for this high–tech mind–transplant thriller, as a shrink/inventor whose fleeting…
Ghost in the Machine (1993): Dir. Rachel Talalay
Feat. Karen Allen, Chris Mulkey; Computer effects ala THE LAWNMOWER MAN punctuate this high–tech thriller in which a serial–killer does some heavy–duty destruction…
Body Parts (1992): Dir. Eric Red
Feat. Jeff Fahey; Criminal psychologist Jeff Fahey loses his arm in a car accident and becomes the recipient of an homicidal donor arm! Unsettling thriller soon takes…
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991): Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong; The ultimate Sci–fi action picture, it shamelessly flaunts its $100 million budget with Big Arnie playing second fiddle to a plethora of…
Total Recall (1990): Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone; From the heyday of the Arnold Schwarzenegger craze, this excellent sci–fi thriller boasts a massive f/x budget, Sharon Stone and a Phillip K…
Club Extinction (Dr. M) (1989): Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas…; Chabrol’s re–examination of Fritz Lang’s DR MABUSE is set in a future Berlin saturated with Big Brother messages and a plague of…
Dead End Drive-In (1986): Dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith; Low–budget Ozploitation thriller set in a post–apocalyptic world where an unwitting young couple get themselves interned with fellow…
Dreamscape (1984): Dir. Joseph Ruben
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer; Psychic Dennis Quaid treks through the dreams and nightmares of others, ultimately confronting the nihilistic visions of the President. Works well…
Terminator, The (1984): Dir. James Cameron
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton; Breakthrough film for Schwarzenegger and its director, it's a high–powered action fantasy that set a precedent for the genre. And 'I'll be…
Looker (1981): Dir. Michael Crichton
Feat. Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey…; Sci–fi thriller written and directed by Michael Crichton that comments upon and satirizes media, advertising, TV's effects on the populace, and…
Hangar 18 (1980): Dir. James L. Conway
Feat. Robert Vaughn, Darren McGavin, Gary Collins…; Hokey Sci–Fi riffs on the Roswell incident with two astronauts determined to prove the U.S government is in possession of a flying saucer.
Capricorn One (1978): Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro…; Intriguing, thought–provoking thriller, with astronauts Sam Waterston and OJ Simpson helping NASA to fake a manned landing on Mars, unknowing…
Coma (1978): Dir. Michael Crichton
Feat. Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley…; Numerous patients fall into a permanent coma, arousing the suspicions of maverick doctor Genevieve Bujold. Excellent thriller unfolds its queasy…
Fury, The (1978): Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes; Despite a barmy sci–fi plot concerning telekinetic teenagers being used for military experiments, this Brian de Palma–directed thriller…
Demon Seed, The (1977): Dir. Donald Cammell
Feat. Julie Christie; The thought of a woman (Julie Christie) being literally impregnated by a machine may be a dodgy premise for a movie, but it all works surprisingly…
Futureworld (1976): Dir. Richard T. Heffron
Feat. Peter Fonda, Yul Brynner; WESTWORLD sequel is set in a 1985 'fool–proof' theme–park that spawns a new generation of robot doubles threatening to take over the…
Stepford Wives, The (1975): Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson…; Beautifully understated, bizarre satire on suburbia and the feminist movement in which the inhabitants of a small town seem curiously contented. …
Night Gallery (TV Series) (1970-1973): Feat. Rod Serling; Spooky suspense series, hosted by Rod Serling, with each episode adapted from a sci–fi and horror short story. While not up to Serling's…
Fantastic Voyage (1966): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Raquel Welch; A team of 'experts' are miniaturized and injected into a high–ranking scientist as a last resort to repair his medical condition. An…
Satan Bug, The (1964): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Alistair Maclean, Richard Basehart; Set in a hushed desert landscape of secret government laboratories and ominous rock–formations, this Cold War paranoia–thriller…
Day the Earth Caught Fire, The (1962): Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Edward Judd, Leo McKern; A solidly old–fashioned 'disaster film' in which H–Bomb test knock the Earth of its axis, leading to terrifying and accelerating climate…
Atomic Submarine (1959): Dir. Spencer Gordon Bennet
Feat. Arthur Franz, Dick Foran; Entertaining sci–fi thriller with a decent script and a believable cast, even if the small budget is plainly obvious.
One Step Beyond (TV Series) (1959): Feat. John Newland; Classic television series billed as 'your guide to the supernatural' serves half–hour docudramas of unexplained, paranormal 'true events'.…
It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958): Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marshall Thompson, Kim Spalding, Shawn Smith; 50's sci–fi horror set in a future 1973. A hostile martian life form stows away on a rescue ship heading to Mars to recover survivors of an…
Fiend Without a Face (1957): Dir. Arthur Crabtree
Feat. Marshall Thompson, Kim Parker; Noteworthy 'alien invader' thriller in which creatures resembling the human brain run amok in a small town. Macabre proceedings are resolved in a…
This Island Earth (1954): Dir. Joseph Newman
Feat. Rex Reason, Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue; Seriously cool sci–fi adventure with startling production values enriching its B–movie spirit. Rex Reason plays a scientist unwittingly…
Thing, The (The Thing From Another World) (1951): Dir. Christian Nyby
Feat. Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite; Howard Hawksian macho men in leather tussle it out with men in cardies over how to protect themselves from the abomidable alien outside in the snow.…
When Worlds Collide (1951): Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen…; When Earth faces imminent and total destruction from an errant star, scientists must organise an evacuation in time to save the human race. Thrilling…

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