The SciFi Movies Less Watched

[bbarsh]

I'd like to give a shout-out to Logan's Run, a personal favorite of mine.

Beat me to it on the very last post!

[AxeMental]

Alot of good suggestions.
Horror Express (Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, oh and Teli Savalis).
Terror Island (1966) had some interesting monsters (I think from space but can't remember)
The Day of the Triffids
The series UFO was pretty good as I remember. Thunderbirds, The original Outer Limits of course, The Invaders (Roy Thinnis)

[rredmond]

Looks like a Horta with a tongue! Of course I'm a social worker, not a bricklayer...

[bobjester]

Its really a cult movie, and more fantasy than science fiction, but I've really wanted to see "Big Trouble in Little China" for the better part of a year now. None of the local stores have it on DVD.

One of my favorites from the 80's was "Brainstorm" with Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood. I haven't seen it in over 30 years, btw.

[BlackBat242]

Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969). Original title: Doppelganger.

Gerry Anderson's first foray into adult-audience* live-actor Sci-Fi... some of the props ans such were re0used for the TV series UFO.



* over-18, not porno.

[ThirstyStirge]

Horror Express (Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, oh and Teli Savalis).

Just rewatched this about a week ago. Really low budget, but the 'monster' was a great concept.

I'll have to look into Terror Island. Over the past year I've been deep into the Hammer catalogue and some of the American International pics with Vincent Price.

I wasn't aware that the OP allowed mention of horror. I don't usually group that with scifi.

Flesh and the Fiends is a most excellent b/w Peter Cushing flick about the graverobbers Burke and Hare, also starring Donald Pleasance. I've heard rumours that someone was remaking it but, alas, I've seen nothing definite.

Vampire Circus, another Hammer picture, gets two hearty thumbs-up.

If you're an Ingrid Pitt fan like me would can't go wrong with Countess Dracula and the Vampire Lovers.

The Bride, with Sting.

[AxeMental]

Horror Express (Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, oh and Teli Savalis).

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I wasn't aware that the OP allowed mention of horror. I don't usually group that with scifi.

Same here. Horror Express is technically science fiction (monster was an alien crashed laneded on Earth and trapped, was simply occupying new hosts since the Dinosaur age (remember when they look in the fluid from his eye under the microscope), Monster Island was either alien cellular lifeforms that get to Earth, or some sort of experiment gone wrong of a cellular level.

As for horror Stirge, if you haven't seen these, check out: Captain Kronos (a vampire hunter from 1800s), Brides of Dracula, **Dracula BBC (70s) with Louis Jourdan, a must see), Dracula 2000 is a little cheesy but surprisingly entertaining (a great Christopher Plumer Van Helsing), theres a few more classics people sometimes miss I'll try to remember.

[kingofpain89]

Its really a cult movie, and more fantasy than science fiction, but I've really wanted to see "Big Trouble in Little China" for the better part of a year now. None of the local stores have it on DVD.

One of my favorites from the 80's was "Brainstorm" with Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood. I haven't seen it in over 30 years, btw.

Two of my faves from the 80's!
I remember going to see Hardware in a local theater when I was in college. The movie wasn't all that bad but the music was done by Ministry which made an ok movie worth watching again.
Primer is quite the interesting film. Requires at least two or three viewings to unravel everything.
A.P.E.X. is a cheesy, low budget flick with killer, time-travelling robots. Lots of explosions.
Steel Dawn may have been Patrick Swayze's attempt at cashing in on some of that Mad Max/Road Warrior money Mel Gibson was raking in. Some decent action scenes.
Defcon 4, another so-so, low budget post-apocalyptic flick worth a watch.

And I noticed John Carpenter mentioned earlier. I guess They Live has acheived a pretty decent cult status but what about Prince of Darkness? Probably the strangest Carpenter movie ever. Satan imprisoned in a wierd, liquid filled cylinder, Alice Cooper stabbing a nerd with the jagged edge of broken bicycle frame, a scientist eaten from the inside by insects, telekinesis, television broadcasted into your subconscious from the future, and after watching it being freaked out by mirrors for weeks afterwards.

[bobjester]

Defcon 4, another so-so, low budget post-apocalyptic flick worth a watch.

And I noticed John Carpenter mentioned earlier. I guess They Live has acheived a pretty decent cult status but what about Prince of Darkness? Probably the strangest Carpenter movie ever. Satan imprisoned in a wierd, liquid filled cylinder, Alice Cooper stabbing a nerd with the jagged edge of broken bicycle frame, a scientist eaten from the inside by insects, telekinesis, television broadcasted into your subconscious from the future, and after watching it being freaked out by mirrors for weeks afterwards.

Heh! I remember Def Con 4 & Prince of Darkness too. I have They Live on VHS, but I haven't watched that one in a while, since my VCR quit working.

Yeah, I remember the creepy feeling around mirrors for several days after watching Prince of Darkness for the first time. I remember one of the sick characters getting a weird symbol on his/her arm and it looked a helluva lot like the symbol that Blue Oyster Cult uses on every one of their album covers. I think its ancient Egyptian for 'resurrection', which fits many of BOC's song concepts.

[thedungeondelver]

There was actually only one song by Ministry in Hardware - "Stigmata", from The Land of Rape and Honey, their 1988 album. The other parts of the soundtrack were industrial/ambient stuff by Simon Boswell, audio drops from the movie (including Lemmy from Motorhead talking to one of the protagonists and another couple of Iggy Pop as "Angry Bob", the DJ of WAR radio), and Public Image Limited's "The Order of Death" from 1984's This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get.

Also notable is an ultra-rare recording of Luciano Pavarotti singing Boswell's arrangement of "Stabat Mater".

Ahem.

If you like Hardware you might also enjoy the much more tongue-in-cheek yet similarly themed Death Machine starring Brad Dourif as a demented computer programmer who's built a ridiculously powerful combat android and turned it loose inside his employer's office building. Has such lovably cheesy stuff as characters named Scott Ridley, Carpenter, Yutani, Weyland and Raimi.

[AxeMental]

Defcon 4, another so-so, low budget post-apocalyptic flick worth a watch.

And I noticed John Carpenter mentioned earlier. I guess They Live has acheived a pretty decent cult status but what about Prince of Darkness? Probably the strangest Carpenter movie ever. Satan imprisoned in a wierd, liquid filled cylinder, Alice Cooper stabbing a nerd with the jagged edge of broken bicycle frame, a scientist eaten from the inside by insects, telekinesis, television broadcasted into your subconscious from the future, and after watching it being freaked out by mirrors for weeks afterwards.

Heh! I remember Def Con 4 & Prince of Darkness too. I have They Live on VHS, but I haven't watched that one in a while, since my VCR quit working.

Yeah, I remember the creepy feeling around mirrors for several days after watching Prince of Darkness for the first time. I remember one of the sick characters getting a weird symbol on his/her arm and it looked a helluva lot like the symbol that Blue Oyster Cult uses on every one of their album covers. I think its ancient Egyptian for 'resurrection', which fits many of BOC's song concepts.

Prince of Darkness was a scary one. Good pick.

[Wheggi]

Of Carpenter, I'm a big fan of one of his lesser-seen movies: In the Mouth of Madness with Sam Neal (sp). Lovecraftian goodness.

And as for sci-fi movies less watched, lets not forget Ice Pirates

- Wheggi

[bobjester]

Of Carpenter, I'm a big fan of one of his lesser-seen movies: In the Mouth of Madness with Sam Neal (sp). Lovecraftian goodness.

And as for sci-fi movies less watched, lets not forget Ice Pirates

- Wheggi

Many a Traveller scenario based on Ice Pirates!

[Ghul]

Of Carpenter, I'm a big fan of one of his lesser-seen movies: In the Mouth of Madness with Sam Neal (sp). Lovecraftian goodness.

Do you read Sutter Cane?

[Mudguard]

Sam Neill, one of my countrymen(Fuck yeah!). Sounds like a cool movie. Not really Sci Fi, but I'd recommend Bad Taste. One of Sir Peter Jackson's earlier movies.