Posted on 08/09/2014 12:34:57 PM PDT by EveningStar
In these days of seemingly weekly science fiction blockbusters (which are usually SF in name only… they're actually just big gun actioners that take place in the future) and the hype that surrounds them, it's easy to forget that once such films were the low man on the totem pole. Stuff fit for kids and juveniles but not serious adult audiences. Thus, in past decades, except for a few A list films like Them and The Day the Earth Stood Still in the 1950s and Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, and Logan's Run in the '60s and '70s, many SF movies slipped under the radar or were simply shrugged off by the critics...
With the foregoing in mind, we come to our list of the 10 most underrated classic science fiction films which will be rated not strictly from least underrated to most underrated, but from good to best of the bunch. All of them, in any case, are films that never really took the screen world by storm, nor the SF community for that matter, but that offer elements that deserve the attention of any SF film fan. All are solid little films each with surprising angles that will reward the patient viewer willing to look past production values and embrace the singular worlds they bring to life...
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In a way, I’m surprised that ME-TV hasn’t run that since at times is a Quinn Martin lite channel. Don’t get me wrong, most of the QM stuff I always liked.
and let us not forget the greatest congtribution to sci fi from the bbc - red dwarf
Me too!
That one is remembered. Our Doppelgangers. The end of the movie remembered a positive to negative effect, and the guy fooling around to determine what went where as to wiring, blew up the entire launch site.
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The only time Sean Connery wore a diaper on screen.
Wasn’t the time travelers the one with the dwarves in the late 80s? I thought it was pretty good
Certainly can’t leave out the larger than life insect movies.
Grasshoppers -”Beginning of the End” in 1957 w/Peter Graves
Ants-”Them” w/Fess Parker and James Arness from 1954
Praying mantris - “The Deadly Mantis”- another ‘57 movie w/Craig Stevens(Mr. Lucky), & William Hopper (Perry Mason PI
Giant crabs, giant birds;
Giant squids seen in “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” Kirk Douglas, James Mason
and though not giants...’Frogs” with Ray Miland (not his best film)
Saturday nights meant great SyFi movies shown on the local channel in Dallas Popcorn, Coke, and a floor cushion would be all that was needed for a good Sat night watching the films
Same here. Sand dunes were avoided, easy as the coast line is miles from Big D. However, would occasionally glance at the back of the neck of a person...just checking.
LOL!
Don’t leave out the spiders, as in “Tarantula” (1955) and “Earth vs. the Spider” (1958). Heck, I seem to even recall Tarzan battling a big old spider in a cave in one of his 1940s-era films.
My gosh, but I used to love all the old creature-feature/sci-fi type films that all the local channels used to air. Whether saturday afternoons, or weekend late-shows, or even weekday, after-school “Dialing for Dollars Theaters,” those things were such a joy. Absolute bliss, for a wide-eyed youngster.
The Trollenberg Terror LOL - actually kinda cool Z-grade schlock on a Saturday night. Forrest Tucker as a leading man, anyone?
The Incredible Shrinking Man
I looked. Didn't happen. I think I need a blue pill.
I’ll buy that for a dollar!
Great movie. Roudy Ronnie Piper!
Any Sci-Fi that got the MST3k treatment. Specially Gamera movies.
Hardware Wars
SpaceBalls
Great flick that one.
I do not know of most of them, however, ‘Kronos’ is terribly under-rated!!
#9 definitely. excellent film. can find online or on amazon.
Excellent film.
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