Sci-Fi

  • Jesús Franco – Miss Muerte AKA The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966)

    1961-1970FranceHorrorJesus FrancoSci-Fi

    The film stars Mabel Karr as Irma Zimmer, a surgeon who creates a machine that turns people into zombified slaves. Ms. Zimmer is the daughter of a Professor Zimmer (a disciple of Dr. Orloff), who was hounded to his death several years earlier by four of his scientific associates. Zimmer uses the machine to control an erotic dancer named Miss Muerte (Estella Blain) who uses her long poison-tipped fingernails to murder the people Ms. Zimmer holds responsible for her father’s death.Read More »

  • Wallace Fox – The Corpse Vanishes (1942)

    Wallace Fox1941-1950HorrorSci-FiUSA

    Dr. Lorenz, a mad scientist, wants to keep his elderly wife young. He does this by kidnapping young females and extracting fluid from them. He then injects this fluid into his wife. What a diabolical guy!Read More »

  • Irving Pichel – Destination Moon (1950)

    1941-1950AdventureIrving PichelSci-FiUSA

    After their their latest rocket fails, Dr. Charles Cargraves and retired General Thayer have to start over again. this time, Gen. Thayer approaches Jim Barnes, the head of his own aviation construction firms to help build a rocket that will take them to the moon. Together they gather the captains of industry and all pledge to support the goals of having the united States be the first to put a man on the moon. They build their rocket and successfully leave the Earth’s gravitational pull and make the landing as scheduled. Barnes has miscalculated their fuel consumption however and after stripping the ship bare, they are still 100 lbs too heavy meaning that one of them will have to stay behind.Read More »

  • Ib Melchior – The Time Travelers (1964)

    Ib Melchior1961-1970HorrorSci-FiUSA

    Scientists step through a time portal and travel 107 years into the future. They find a barren underground post- nuclear war world where a handful of “normal humans” are being attacked by mutants. Preston Foster (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, The Last Days of Pompeii), Philip Carey (Fighting Mad, The Seven Minutes), Merry Anders (Tickle Me), Steve Franken (Avalanche, Freeway), and Dennis Patrick (Heated Vengeance, Joe) star in this sci-fi classic. Now watch this thrilling adventure from a brand new 2020 2K scan!Read More »

  • Konstantin Lopushanskiy – Posetitel muzeya AKA Visitor of a Museum (1989)

    Konstantin Lopushanskiy1981-1990ArthouseSci-FiUSSR

    Synopsis:
    Civilization as we know it has been destroyed, but remnants remain. In this story, a man has set his heart on visiting a famous pre-apocalypse museum which is now isolated in the midst of a new sea, the result of the melting of the polar icecaps. Those who hold onto the remnants of the old civilization live in isolated settlements, and keep a tight rein on the more numerous mutants, whom they keep in concentration camps (except for those who pressed into duty as servants). The stranger, who is an odd looking man, is taken by these mutants as a long-awaited messiah, and he swiftly becomes involved in the mutant-liberation rebellion, leading his followers to a new land on the other side of the sea.Read More »

  • Renata Pinheiro – Carro Rei AKA King Car (2021)

    2021-2030ArthouseBrazilRenata PinheiroSci-Fi

    Born inside a car, Uno has had a very special relationship with them from an early age. From the renovation of an old family vehicle, Uno and his uncle, the auto mechanic Zé Macaco, will set forward a movement no one can predict how and where it will end. By merging elements from assorted film genres, treading between wild fantasy and grounded in a very specific reality, Renata Pinheiro devises a unique film within the contemporary landscape of Brazilian cinema, urgent and timeless in equal measure. Free and restless cinema, as it should be in absurd times.Read More »

  • Wes Craven – Deadly Friend (1986) 

    1981-1990HorrorSci-FiUSAWes Craven

    A teenage whiz kid (Matthew Laborteaux) puts his robot’s brain in the head of a nearly dead girl (Kristy Swanson).Read More »

  • Dani Leventhal & Sheilah Wilson – Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (2017)

    2011-2020Dani LeventhalExperimentalQueer Cinema(s)Sci-FiSheilah WilsonUSA

    Quote:
    SOTD was birthed out of a desire to privilege and amplify the strange and banal quality of daily life, to see what it can yield as an entrance to larger concerns, such as the environment, representation of motherhood, queer desire, the domestic as site of radicality.Read More »

  • Miguel Llansó – Crumbs (2015)

    2011-2020ArthouseEthiopiaMiguel LlansóSci-Fi

    Quote:
    Our figurine sized supermen hero embarks on an epic surreal journey that will take him across the Ethiopian post apocalyptic landscape in search of a way to get on the hovering spacecraft that for years has become a landmark in the skies.Read More »

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