Genre: Science Fiction
Science fiction asks what if and follows the answer — technology, the future, and the unknown, used to test what it means to be human under new conditions.
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Daybreakers (2009)
The Spierig brothers imagine a world where vampires won and the blood is running out. A smart, uneven 7/10 dystopian vampire film reviewed at Master of Worlds. -
The Fly (1986)
David Cronenberg's body horror about a scientist whose teleportation experiment merges his DNA with a housefly. -
They Live (1988)
A drifter discovers sunglasses that reveal the wealthy elite are alien creatures controlling humanity through subliminal messaging. -
Deep Impact (1998)
Mimi Leder's 1998 comet impact drama. Released alongside Armageddon. The serious one. Tea Leoni, Robert Duvall, Morgan Freeman. -
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Robert Aldrich's 1955 apocalyptic noir. Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. The great whatsit. Foundation for Pulp Fiction's briefcase. -
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Michel Gondry's 2004 memory erasure romance. Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet. Charlie Kaufman screenplay. Practical effects, beach erosion. -
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Spielberg's 1982 alien-and-boy fable. Bicycle moon, glowing finger, phone home. Highest-grossing film for over a decade. -
WALL-E (2008)
Andrew Stanton's 2008 Pixar masterpiece. Garbage robot finds love on dead Earth. First forty minutes near-silent. Environmental fable. -
Idiocracy (2006)
Mike Judge's 2006 dystopian satire. Average man wakes in 500-years-dumber future. Cult standing built through home video. -
Oblivion (2013)
2013 Joseph Kosinski sci-fi with Tom Cruise as a post-war drone repair tech on devastated Earth who discovers the war isn't over.