Strange Science-Fiction Films

[McConnaughay]

Question: What is one of the weirdest science-fiction movies that you recall seeing? (COME ON! ANSWER! I MADE PICTURES AND EVERYTHING.)

Science-Fiction has always been a major staple in film. Not only film either. There is just something about it that captures the childlike wonder in all of us. It pokes and prods at this curiosity that is inside all of us. There are movies that will capture the imagination, (Star Wars) and those that work to exploit our humanistic fear of the unknown. (Alien) There are films that will twist and contort everything around us, (Inception) and ones that are just fun. (Men in Black)

Some of them are also very, very bizarre.

Fantastic Planets: A French 1973 cutout stop-motion science-fiction film. Fantastic Planets tells of a place where humans are treated as pets by these mystical blue-people called Draags. Eventually, the humans begin to evolve and rebel against their masters, creating colonies and hiding from the Draags while reproducing at a rampant rate. The film is bizarre, but it also has a very creative story and a lot of inspiration can be found in the illustrations. I really like it as a film.​

 

[DrLeftover]

One that came to mind immediately was Irwin Allen's Fantastic Voyage from 1966 with Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence.

But I can do better than tell you about it....

Enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmuxvwRnoh0

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Hmmm,

Maybe 'The Fly' or 'The Stuff'

 

[DrLeftover]

Hmmm,

Maybe 'The Fly'

Oh, yeah.

But I hope you mean the 1980's remake. Which is my opinion was a lot more watchable than the original from the fifties.

I mean, Jeff Goldblum never looked so... so.... something.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I just watched that movie again recently. Still creeeeepy.

 

[DrLeftover]

If you want a remake that was "creepier" than the original, check out the 1982 remake of The Thing.

While the original was a nailbiter, and is still worth watching. John Carpenter's version will make you leave the lights on tonight.


Yeah, see, I know these kinds of things because I spent 10 years watching all night TV on a job. It was either stuff like this, or Spanish Language cooking shows and soccer rebroadcasts.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Yeah that was a good one.

Also 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (the 70's remake).

 

[McConnaughay]

Here's One:

In this film, a knight sets out to rescue a princess from a vicious and ferocious dragon. Most unpleasantly though, the dragon turns out to actually be an alien spacecraft.

I could probably give a better description than that, but I am choosing not to...

 

[DrLeftover]

I can't believe nobody mentioned this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzI-ZbcK_sw

 

[McConnaughay]

I can't believe nobody mentioned this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzI-ZbcK_sw

Ah, hell... that's a good one..

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Hollow Man isn't exactly strange in the sense that there's something so absolutely bizarre about it. I mean, anybody who has seen the movie can say that it's actually not that, .. you know, we've seen invisible people before. There's a bunch of films that use the idea. I even remember reading some book in elementary school involving electric blanket where a guy turned invisible. However, Hollow Man is strange in the sense that they took amazing visual effects that looked genuinely bad-ass, a capable cast, and decided they were going to wreck it all to hell. The film started as an interesting science-fiction, but quickly became a mindless slasher film.

Oh, and ...

Hollow Man 2 feels like simple horror. The special-effects are gone, and so is Kevin Bacon.


With that being said, ... fingers crossed for a Hollow Man 3.

 

[DrLeftover]

I guess I'll play my trump card and call out everybody's best:

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058548/


The Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnEJrwYXXsI


The Movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C5WwammH90


OK, top THAT for "Strange Sci-Fi..."

 

[McConnaughay]

If the movie Lo counted as Science-Fiction, you'd be in-trouble.

 

[Jazzy]

The Blob

The Blob is an independently made 1958 American horror/science-fiction film that depicts a growing protoplasm-like alien creature that crashes from outer space in a meteorite and terrorizes the small community of Downingtown, Pennsylvania.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkOfeSNsWpM

 

[DrLeftover]

Good contenders.

But Santa Claus still puts me ahead on points.

So I'm safe mentioning one of the worst movies ever made of all time of all genres....

It takes talent to take a cast like that and make something that is almost unwatchable.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbQfqb2nGi8

 

[DrLeftover]

And nobody has mentioned this:


[video=dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlsvpo_night-of-the-lepus_shortfilms


yes, it is the "giant evil bunny rabbit movie"

 

[DrLeftover]

Oh, and then there was... oh, what was the movie with the little car under a rug with plastic legs sticking out that was chasing people around....

damn

hang on, I'll think of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwjljzW95zA

 

[DrLeftover]

There WERE advantages to having a night job where you have to stay awake and the only thing the TV will get is UHF stations that either ran Spanish language soccer games or crap like that....

I've SEEN those movies.

The infomercials for the Magic Turnip Steamer came on later. They were usually better than the movies.

 

[Jazzy]

Lifeforce is a mixture of science fiction, gothic horror, apocalyptica, erotic literature, and ’80s schlock that works so incredibly well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qej5nlRb9VM

Read about Lifeforce here.