Name a sci-fi movie (tagged Sci-Fi on IMDb, 1,000+ votes)

November 4, 2026 · Daily Dive #112

Explore 4,153 recorded answers and their points for question 5 on November 4, 2026.

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4,153 recorded names on November 4, 2026, 3,534 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Work the long tail of the catalogue rather than the famous shelf: filter by the genre label, sort by vote count, and move through decades and countries. Any feature film or made-for-television movie carrying the Sci-Fi label in its database genre field with more than one thousand votes qualifies; shorts, series episodes and untagged titles do not.

4,153 recorded answers3,534 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut3,53385 pts
  • Rare52460 pts
  • Schooler8430 pts
  • Plankton1110 pts
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Recorded answers

4,153 recorded answers

How to approach it

Recommendation instinct needs reversing here. Rather than reaching for the celebrated titles everyone knows, assemble a private list of the strange, the cheap and the barely reviewed: late-night television films, imported genre pictures, animated oddities, unwanted sequels, anything glimpsed on a streaming shelf at three in the morning. Check each candidate against the two hard conditions before committing, since a thin vote count or a genre field lacking the tag makes a title worthless however futuristic it feels. Then rank the survivors by how unlikely another player is to name them, and spend the answer on the oddest title you can defend as genuinely eligible.

Get a hint

Bear in mind that a database label, not reputation, defines this category, so the pool holds hundreds of films nobody would bring up in an ordinary conversation.

A little more

Steer toward the edges of the catalogue: low-budget productions, regional cinema, animated features, straight-to-video entries and old black-and-white titles sit under the same tag as the blockbusters.

One step further

Once a candidate comes to mind, confirm that its vote count genuinely passes four figures and that the genre field lists the science-fiction tag explicitly, since a title that merely feels futuristic but is filed elsewhere earns nothing.

Reveal answers 4,153
  • BoltneckDeep Cut85points
  • BomBhaatDeep Cut85points
  • Bone EaterDeep Cut85points
  • BorderlandsDeep Cut85points
  • Born in FlamesDeep Cut85points
  • Boss LevelDeep Cut85points
  • Bottom FeederDeep Cut85points
  • Bounty KillerDeep Cut85points
  • Box: MetaphorDeep Cut85points
  • Boy 7Deep Cut85points
  • Boy 7 (2015)Deep Cut85points
  • Brain DamageDeep Cut85points
  • Brain DeadDeep Cut85points
  • Brain of BloodDeep Cut85points
  • BrainscanDeep Cut85points
  • BrainstormDeep Cut85points
  • BrandedDeep Cut85points
  • Brave New WorldDeep Cut85points
  • Brave New World (1980)Deep Cut85points
  • BraveStarr: The LegendDeep Cut85points
  • BreachDeep Cut85points
  • BreatheDeep Cut85points
  • BreedersDeep Cut85points
  • Brian and CharlesDeep Cut85points
  • BrickDeep Cut85points
  • Bride of Re-AnimatorDeep Cut85points
  • Bride of the MonsterDeep Cut85points
  • Brides of BloodDeep Cut85points
  • Bridge of DragonsDeep Cut85points
  • BrightburnDeep Cut85points
  • BrightwoodDeep Cut85points
  • Britannia HospitalDeep Cut85points
  • BubbleDeep Cut85points
  • Buck RogersDeep Cut85points
  • Buck Rogers in the 25th CenturyDeep Cut85points
  • Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible ManDeep Cut85points
  • Bug (1975)Deep Cut85points
  • Bug BusterDeep Cut85points
  • Bullets of JusticeDeep Cut85points
  • Bunker palace hôtelDeep Cut85points
  • Burst CityDeep Cut85points
  • Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure BeginsDeep Cut85points
  • C.H.O.M.P.S.Deep Cut85points
  • C.H.U.D.Deep Cut85points
  • C.H.U.D. II: Bud the ChudDeep Cut85points
  • Cabin Fever (2016)Deep Cut85points
  • Cabin Fever 3: Patient ZeroDeep Cut85points
  • Caddo LakeDeep Cut85points
  • Cade: The Tortured CrossingDeep Cut85points
  • Call of the UndeadDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

The recorded pool ran to 4,118 titles, and the shape of the scoring is the lesson. A single answer reached 100 points, 3,440 sat at 85 and 547 stopped at 60, with only 130 slipping below the line, so the gap between a good result and a mediocre one was almost never validity; it was distance from the crowd's first thoughts. Titles such as Woman in the Moon (100), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) (85), 2-Headed Shark Attack (85), *Batteries Not Included (85) and A Boy and His Dog (85) all live in the high band, and what they share is a refusal to be obvious: a silent space voyage, a remade Victorian adventure, a creature feature, a family comedy about hardware, a post-apocalyptic road movie. Franchise entries are legal but crowded, so they settle lower. Rarity, not fame, is what the leaderboard paid for.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 4 Nov, 12:25 UTC

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