some of my favourite lesser known Sci fi films.

[darren]

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fantastic voyage is another very like innerspace with dennis quaid

[battyrat]

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Saw Laser Blast a few months back. It's sort of a typical sci fi of the day. Nothing really special, apart from the animated sequences with the funny elongated turtle like aliens. Also managed to watch two of the 90's Gamera films. Certainly a lot better then the 60's and 70's ones.

I would not bother with a remake of Black Hole. It was over hyped in its day, over rented at the video shop and still today has nothing special about it. I have a feeling it was one big company's idea at having a pop at doing a Star Wars thing. The last star fighter I got on Blue ray. I remember it as being a very good film, but on watching it again his alien buddy seems to be really annoying.

[catflap]

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Loved Battle Beyond The Stars and Spacehunter, Adventures in the Forbidden Zone brilliant B-Movies, remember going to the piccies to see Trancers in the 80's (apparently they have made 6 of them) another good B-Movie also loved Screamers, The Black Hole & The last Starfighter

There has been talk of a Black Hole remake for a while, but it seems to be in limbo.

It's one of those they ought to make a good job of, or just not bother at all.

[darren]

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monolith monsters

[spuggybridge]

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Loved Battle Beyond The Stars and Spacehunter, Adventures in the Forbidden Zone brilliant B-Movies, remember going to the piccies to see Trancers in the 80's (apparently they have made 6 of them) another good B-Movie also loved Screamers, The Black Hole & The last Starfighter

[londinius]

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Enemy Mine - fantastic film.
Does anybody else remember a really cheesy cold war sci fi film, from the 60s I think, called something like 'Battle Beneath the Earth'? I think it starred Kerwin Matthews, and the basic premise was the Chinese using laser tunnelling machines for a subterranean invasion of the USA?

All time favourite Sci fi film - Forbidden Planet

[azure711]

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Ahhh...Loved Saturn 3 (which is about due for a viewing). Also enjoyed Enemy Mine, The Hidden, The Deadly Spawn, Static (not as much sci as fi but still brilliant).
The 'Hammerhead' ship from Battle Beyond The Stars influenced many behemoth Lego creations (which kept me quiet for hours) and many space battle games (which did not).

[darren]

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some good ones there shado66

another is reptilicus 1961

[Shado66]

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The incredible shrinking man

Dune

Zardoz

Invasion of the body snatchers 50's and 70's versions.

[darren]

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monolith monsters

dark side of the moon

[agfagaevart]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzfuNSpP0RA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez2XfvN8XSc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubcEUr5ALJ0

[darren]

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im mad about B movies indeed mate.time travelers is superb.

one i just saw it beginning of the end from 1957 about super huge locusts that eat and destroy everything.
i get them on youtube.

another is the strange world of planet X, another the giant claw.

I know those films very well. A rather good film is the monolith monsters. I think I am a bit like you Darren. I seem to obtain some rather obscure sci fi. One film that is extremely good and I really like is Them. Giant ants roaming about. Great film and good looking critters. Even now it seems to hold together very well for its age. Another fav of mine is fiend without a face. Brain monsters.........

Yep nothing like a good ole B movie.

[battyrat]

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I know those films very well. A rather good film is the monolith monsters. I think I am a bit like you Darren. I seem to obtain some rather obscure sci fi. One film that is extremely good and I really like is Them. Giant ants roaming about. Great film and good looking critters. Even now it seems to hold together very well for its age. Another fav of mine is fiend without a face. Brain monsters.........

Yep nothing like a good ole B movie.

[darren]

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killer shrews
the brain from planet arous
mission to mars

the deadly mantis


ive seen so many obscure ones and i love them.

[xmark1234]

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i have that bronx warriors on vhs video i got it from boot sale and i never watched it looks like ill have to go dig this out and try convert to dvd to have a bash now

My guilty pleasure is the two Guyver films. For some reason I quite like the first film Mutronics as there is a cringe worthy critter who likes to do a bit of rapping. He sort of looks a bit like a demented Jar-Jar Binks that's gone wrong and just as annoying. Also have fond memories of the two Bronx films from the 80's, the Bronx warriors and escape from the Bronx.Exploding arrows(Escape from the Bronx) and an over the top 80's idea of gang fashion is just fantastic.
Hell comes to frog town is a film I clearly remember, but not many people seem to recall the two follow up films.