Luc Besson, The Fifth Element, Gaumont Buena Vista International, 1997

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: May 7, 1997.
• Running time: 126 minutes.
• Tagline: There is no future without it.

• The Fifth Element (1997)
• The Fifth Element poster

Erle C. Kenton, Island of Lost Souls, Paramount Pictures, 1932

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December, 1932.
• Running time: 71 minutes.
• Tagline: TERROR! Stalked the Brush-Choked Island…Where Men Who Were Animals Sought the Girl Who Was All-Human!

• Island of Lost Souls (1932)
• Island of Lost Souls poster

James Cameron, The Abyss, 20th Century Fox, 1989

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: August 9, 1989.
• Running time: 146 minutes.
• Tagline: There’s everything you’ve ever known about adventure… and then there’s The Abyss.
• Hoyt Yeatman, Dennis Muren, John Bruno and Dennis Skotak won the 1990 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

• The Abyss (1989)
• The Abyss poster

John Carpenter, The Thing, Universal Pictures, 1982

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: June 25, 1982.
• Running time: 109 minutes.
• Tagline: The ultimate in alien terror.

• The Thing (1982)
• The Thing poster

Lewis Gilbert, You Only Live Twice, United Artists, 1967

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: June 12, 1967.
• Running time: 117 minutes.
• Tagline: You Only Live Twice …and “TWICE” is the only way to live!
• The fifth in the James Bond series. It is the first James Bond film to discard most of Ian Fleming’s plot, using only a few characters and locations from the book as the background for an entirely new story.

• You Only Live Twice (1967)
• You Only Live Twice poster

James Whale, Bride of Frankenstein, Universal Pictures, 1935

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: April 22, 1935.
• Running time: 75 minutes.
• Tagline: Warning! The Monster demands a Mate!
• The first sequel to Frankenstein (1931).

• Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• Bride of Frankenstein poster

Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend, Warner Bros. Pictures, 2007

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 14, 2007.
• Running time: 100 minutes.
• Tagline: The last man on earth is not alone.

• I Am Legend (2007)
• I Am Legend poster

Jon Favreau, Iron Man, Paramount Pictures, 2008

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: May 2, 2008.
• Running time: 126 minutes.
• Tagline: Heroes aren’t born. They’re built.

• Iron Man (2008)
• Iron Man poster

Ubaldo Ragona & Sidney Salkow, The Last Man on Earth, American International Pictures, 1964

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: March 8, 1964.
• Running time: 86 minutes.
• Tagline: Do you dare to imagine what it would be like to be… the last man on earth… or the last woman? Alive among the lifeless… alone among the crawling creatures of evil that make the night hideous with their inhuman craving!

• The Last Man on Earth (1964)
• The Last Man on Earth poster

James Whale, The Invisible Man, Universal Pictures, 1933

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: November 13, 1933.
• Running time: 71 minutes.
• Tagline: H.G. Wells’ Fantastic Sensation.

• The Invisible Man (1933)
• The Invisible Man poster

Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Focus Features, 2004

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: March 19, 2004.
• Running time: 103 minutes.
• Tagline: You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story.
• Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind poster

Ken Finkleman, Airplane II: The Sequel, Paramount Pictures, 1982

Rating: 3/5 Buy

• Release date: December 10, 1982.
• Running time: 85 minutes.
• Tagline: For the ride of your life… All you need for Christmas are your two front seats!

• Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
• Airplane II: The Sequel poster

James Cameron, Aliens, 20th Century Fox, 1986

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: July 18, 1986.
• Running time: 137 minutes.
• Tagline: This time it’s war.
• Don Sharpe won the 1987 Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing.
• Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson and Suzanne M. Benson won the 1987 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

• Aliens (1986)
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Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Columbia Pictures, 1977

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: November 16, 1977.
• Running time: 137 minutes.
• Tagline: Close Encounter of the First Kind – Sighting of a UFO. Close Encounter of the Second Kind – Physical Evidence. Close Encounter of the Third Kind – Contact.
• Vilmos Zsigmond won the 1978 Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind poster

Ridley Scott, Alien, 20th Century Fox, 1979

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: May 25, 1979.
• Running time: 119 minutes.
• Tagline: In space no one can hear you scream.
• H.R. Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, Brian Johnson, Nick Allder and Denys Ayling won the 1980 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

• Alien (1979)
• Alien poster

Antony Hoffman, Red Planet, Warner Bros., 2000

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: November 6, 2000.
• Running time: 106 minutes.
• Tagline: Not A Sound. Not A Warning. Not A Chance. Not Alone.

• Red Planet (2000)

Orson Welles, The War of the Worlds, CBS (radio), 1938

Rating: 4/5 Link

• Original air date: October 30, 1938 (Halloween eve).
• Running time: 60 minutes.
• An episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air.
• Triggered one of the first great mass panics of the modern media age.

• The Mercury Theatre on the Air

François Truffaut, Fahrenheit 451, Universal Pictures, 1966

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: November 14, 1966.
• Running time: 112 minutes.
• Tagline: What if you had no right to read?
• Based on the novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury.

• Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

Byron Haskin, The War of the Worlds, Paramount Pictures, 1953

Rating: 3/5 Buy

• Release date: August 26, 1953.
• Running time: 86 minutes.
• Tagline: The original invasion!
• Won an Academy Award for Best Effects, Special Effects.

• The War of the Worlds (1953)

Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein, 20th Century Fox, 1974

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 15, 1974.
• Running time: 106 minutes.
• Tagline: The scariest comedy of all time!

• Young Frankenstein (1974)

George Pal, The Time Machine, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1960

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air date: August 17, 1960.
• Running time: 103 minutes.
• Tagline: You Will Orbit into the Fantastic Future!
• Gene Warren and Tim Baar won the Academy Award for Best Effects, Special Effects.

• The Time Machine (1960)

David Cronenberg, The Fly, 20th Century Fox, 1986

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: August 15, 1986.
• Running time: 95 minutes.
• Tagline: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
• Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis won Academy Award for Best Makeup.

• The Fly (1986)

Robert Wise, The Day the Earth Stood Still, 20th Century Fox, 1951

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: September 28, 1951.
• Running time: 92 minutes.
• Tagline: A robot and a man . . . hold the world spellbound with new and startling powers from another planet!

• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Rouben Mamoulian, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Paramount Pictures, 1931

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: December 31, 1931.
• Running time: 98 minutes.
• Tagline: Put yourself in her place! The dreaded night when her lover became a madman!
• Fredric March won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role, 1932.

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

Victor Fleming, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1941

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Release date: August 12, 1941.
• Running time: 113 minutes.
• Tagline: A Good Woman! A Bad Woman – who needed the love of both!
• A direct remake of the 1931 film of the same title, which differs greatly from the novel. MGM acquired the rights to the 1931 film, originally released by Paramount Pictures, and destroyed every print of the earlier version they could find to prevent its exhibition as competition.

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone: Season 1, CBS, 1959-1960

Rating: 4/5 Buy

• Original air dates: October 2, 1959 – July 1, 1960 (36 episodes).
• Running time: ~30 minutes each.

• The Twilight Zone (1959)