Sci-Fi Spring Break 2011
by watercooler1-997-621845 | created - 10 Mar 2011 | updated - 10 May 2011 | PublicList of the 30-ish Sci-Fi movies being reviewed over the next 90 days. Click the episode number in each entry to watch the review!
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1. Hangar 18 (1980)
PG | 97 min | Sci-Fi
After a UFO crashes in Arizona, due to a space collision with a NASA satellite launch, the U.S. government tries to cover-up the incident for political reasons.
Director: James L. Conway | Stars: Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins, James Hampton
Votes: 2,951 | Gross: $6.00M
2. Droid Gunner (1995)
R | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A futuristic bounty hunter is assigned to track down four female androids smuggled to Earth for illicit purposes.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Marc Singer, Matthias Hues, Rochelle Swanson, Robin Clarke
Votes: 964
3. Enemy Mine (1985)
PG-13 | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During a long space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James, Richard Marcus
Votes: 51,080 | Gross: $4.27M
4. Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)
Approved | 64 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Astronauts travel to the moon where they discover it is inhabited by attractive young women in black tights.
Director: Arthur Hilton | Stars: Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, Marie Windsor, Susan Morrow
Votes: 2,037
5. Trancers (1984)
PG-13 | 76 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A gruff bounty hunter travels back in time to 1980s Los Angeles to stop a twisted criminal who can transform people into zombie-like creatures.
Director: Charles Band | Stars: Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Michael Stefani, Art LaFleur
Votes: 7,477
6. R.O.T.O.R. (1987)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Robotic Officer Tactical Operation Research. A prototype robot intended for crime combat escapes from the development lab and goes on a killing rampage.
Director: Cullen Blaine | Stars: Margaret Trigg, Richard Gesswein, Jayne Smith, James Cole
Votes: 3,750
7. Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil-may-care (but violent) ladies' man.
Director: Charles B. Griffith | Stars: Oliver Reed, Sunny Johnson, Maia Danziger, Virgil Frye
Votes: 725
8. Tooth and Nail (2007)
R | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A group of people in a post-apocalyptic world fight to survive against a band of vicious cannibals.
Director: Mark Young | Stars: Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Rachel Miner, Nicole DuPort
Votes: 3,963
9. The Day the Earth Stopped (2008 Video)
R | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Hundreds of massive intergalactic robots appear in all of the world's major capitals with an ultimatum: Prove the value of human civilization or be destroyed.
Director: C. Thomas Howell | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Judd Nelson, Darren Dalton, Sinead McCafferty
Votes: 2,108
10. Space Chase (1990 Video)
85 min | Sci-Fi
To rule the galaxy an evil dictator kidnaps a scientist together with his invention which will provide limitless energy for his robots.
Director: Nick Kimaz | Stars: Gary Bergman, Bryan Clark, Michael Gaglio, Matt Harrison
Votes: 56
11. Battle Beyond the Sun (1959)
77 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Two countries race to have the first successful landing on Mars.
Directors: Mikhail Karyukov, Aleksandr Kozyr, Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Ivan Pereverzev, Aleksandr Shvorin, Konstantin Bartashevich, Gurgen Tonunts
Votes: 1,085
12. Dinosaurus! (1960)
Unrated | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
After undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the unsuspecting population. Freed from his watery tomb, as well, is a very friendly Neanderthal ... See full summary »
Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. | Stars: Ward Ramsey, Kristina Hanson, Paul Lukather, Alan Roberts
Votes: 1,694
13. Amanda & the Alien (1995 TV Movie)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A young Bohemian female artist falls in love with a nubile human-eating alien and teaches him how to be more human. However, government agents are on his trail.
Director: Jon Kroll | Stars: Nicole Eggert, John Diehl, Michael Dorn, Stacy Keach
Votes: 748
14. Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954)
Not Rated | 64 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Julie, an American on vacation in Mexico, spots a giant, one-eyed amoeba rising from the ocean, but when she tries to tell the authorities, no one believes her. She finally teams up with a marine biologist in an attempt to destroy it.
Director: Wyott Ordung | Stars: Anne Kimbell, Stuart Wade, Dick Pinner, Wyott Ordung
Votes: 992 | Gross: $0.12M
15. Red Planet (2000)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Astronauts, and their robotic dog AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion), search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
Director: Antony Hoffman | Stars: Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Benjamin Bratt
Votes: 59,818 | Gross: $18.00M
16. Alienator (1990)
R | 93 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
Kol is an evil guy about to be executed on a distant spaceship. He manages to escape on a shuttle and make his way to some woods in America. The commander of the spaceship decides to send ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, John Phillip Law, Ross Hagen, Dyana Ortelli
Votes: 1,834
17. Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe (1990)
R | 87 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
An alien "policeman" arrives on Earth to apprehend a renegade of his own race who impregnates a woman with a potentially destructive mutant embryo.
Director: Damian Lee | Stars: Jesse Ventura, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Damian Lee, Jerry Levitan
Votes: 2,355
18. Princess of Mars (2009 Video)
Not Rated | 93 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
When a solider in the Middle East gets wounded in the line of duty, he is teleported to the planet Barsoom, where he faces hostile aliens and fights for his survival.
Director: Mark Atkins | Stars: Antonio Sabato Jr., Traci Lords, Matt Lasky, Chacko Vadaketh
Votes: 1,836
19. Invaders from Mars (1953)
Approved | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.
Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson
Votes: 8,781
20. Eyeborgs (2009)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Horror
A federal agent investigates when inconsistencies turn up in the photographic evidence of several murders recorded by mobile robotic cameras.
Director: Richard Clabaugh | Stars: Adrian Paul, Dale Girard, Mikey Wiseman, John S. Rushton
Votes: 2,301
21. Tron (1982)
PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.
Director: Steven Lisberger | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan
Votes: 128,821 | Gross: $33.00M
22. Tron: Legacy (2010)
PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.
Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner
Votes: 354,700 | Gross: $172.06M
23. Trancers II (1991)
R | 88 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
6 years after a time cop returns home from battling future alien zombies, his settled life is turned upside down when a mad scientists creates more.
Director: Charles Band | Stars: Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Megan Ward, Biff Manard
Votes: 2,481
24. Alien Apocalypse (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
An astronaut doctor Ivan Hood and his fellow astronaut Kelly return from their mission in space to find the world has been taken over by aliens. Now Dr. Ivan Hood and Kelly must lead a ... See full summary »
Director: Josh Becker | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Renée O'Connor, Remington Franklin, Michael Cory Davis
Votes: 4,360
25. War of the Worlds (2005 Video)
R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A determined astrophysicist must embark on a nationwide journey to find his son during a massive alien invasion that's goal is to exterminate the human race.
Director: David Michael Latt | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Rhett Giles, Andy Lauer, Tinarie van Wyk Loots
Votes: 2,757
26. Dollman (1991 Video)
R | 82 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A hard-boiled intergalactic policeman lands on Earth, where he is thirteen inches tall.
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Tim Thomerson, Jackie Earle Haley, Kamala Lopez, Humberto Ortiz
Votes: 3,688
27. At the Earth's Core (1976)
PG | 89 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A Victorian era scientist and his assistant take a test run in their Iron Mole drilling machine and end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic bird and full of prehistoric monsters and cavemen.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro, Cy Grant
Votes: 5,430
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