The Man from Planet X (1951)
Mar 9, 2003Alien Visitor
One of the earliest 1950s alien visitor films, although here the alien is peaceful and humanity the aggressor. A moodily effective entry from cult director Edgar G. Ulmer.
William Schallert
Gog (1954)
May 19, 2021Machinery at a Space Laboratory Tries to Kill People
Underrated 1950s SF film, a murder mystery as the equipment at a space research laboratory tries to kill people. Contains the first ever depiction of a computer virus
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Apr 17, 2003Miniaturised Man
One of the greatest of all 1950s SF films in which average man Grant Williams begins to shrink in size, a film that becomes as much an effects tour-de-force as it is an existential allegory about a man in an alien universe
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1969)
May 15, 2001Super-Computer Takes Over the World
Produced not long after 2001: A Space Odyssey, this is one of the smartest and best of the super-computer takes over the world films, directed with a tight economy and written with a snappy wit
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
Nov 5, 2002Teen With a Computer Brain/Disney Comedy
One of a spate of Disney live-action comedies that was successful enough that it spawned two sequels. A young Kurt Russell is a college student who gets the contents of a computer accidentally transferred into his head
The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
Jun 25, 1999Super-Strength Cereal/Disney Comedy
The third of Disney Dexter Reilly films in which teen inventor Kurt Russell creates a super-strength cereal
Hangar 18 (1980)
Dec 24, 2002Crashed UFO
In the aftermath of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, this was made by a company specialising in sensationalistic tabloid documentaries. Spielberg's light show is dropped in favour of conspiratorial government coverup view of UFOs
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Dec 16, 2000Fantasy Anthology/TV Series Remake
Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, John Landis and George Miller came together to make this film homage to Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone. The episodes are variable but the standout is Miller's Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Innerspace (1987)
Nov 3, 2003Fantastic Voyage Spoof
Joe Dante pays homage to Fantastic Voyage, the classic film about a submarine journey through the human body. Here though Dante plays it as a screwball comedy but his in-joke heavy style failed to catch on with audiences
Green Lantern: First Flight (2009)
Feb 14, 2010Animation/DC Comics Superhero
The DC Universe Original Animated Movies conduct a solid and worthwhile animated retelling of the Green Lantern origin story, which delves into all the aspects of the mythos
Bag of Bones (2011)
Jan 20, 2012Stephen King Adaptation/Ghost Story
The perpetually terrible Mick Garris is allowed loose on another Stephen King book where he promptly reduces a subtle, ambiguous ghost story to a series of lunging pop-up scares without any concept of atmosphere or nuance