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
- ContainmentDeep Cut85points
- ContaminationDeep Cut85points
- Control (2022)Deep Cut85points
- Control FactorDeep Cut85points
- CoraDeep Cut85points
- Corrective MeasuresDeep Cut85points
- Cosmic Princess Kaguya!Deep Cut85points
- Cosmic SinDeep Cut85points
- CosmoballDeep Cut85points
- CosmosDeep Cut85points
- Countdown (1967)Deep Cut85points
- Cowboy Bebop: The MovieDeep Cut85points
- CQDeep Cut85points
- Crack in the WorldDeep Cut85points
- Crash and BurnDeep Cut85points
- Crash of MoonsDeep Cut85points
- CraterDeep Cut85points
- CrawlspaceDeep Cut85points
- Crazy AlienDeep Cut85points
- Creative ControlDeep Cut85points
- Creator (1985)Deep Cut85points
- CreatureDeep Cut85points
- Creature (2014)Deep Cut85points
- Creature with the Atom BrainDeep Cut85points
- CreepozoidsDeep Cut85points
- Crime ZoneDeep Cut85points
- Crimes of the FutureDeep Cut85points
- Crimes of the Future (1970)Deep Cut85points
- CriminalDeep Cut85points
- CrittersDeep Cut85points
- Critters 2: The Main CourseDeep Cut85points
- Critters 3Deep Cut85points
- Critters 4Deep Cut85points
- Critters Attack!Deep Cut85points
- CrossbreedDeep Cut85points
- CrossworldsDeep Cut85points
- Cruel & UnusualDeep Cut85points
- Crusade in JeansDeep Cut85points
- CryoDeep Cut85points
- Cube (2021)Deep Cut85points
- Cube ZeroDeep Cut85points
- Cube²: HypercubeDeep Cut85points
- Curse of the Faceless ManDeep Cut85points
- Curse of the FlyDeep Cut85points
- CurvatureDeep Cut85points
- Cutie HoneyDeep Cut85points
- Cyber TrackerDeep Cut85points
- CyborgDeep Cut85points
- Cyborg 2: Glass ShadowDeep Cut85points
- Cyborg 3: The RecyclerDeep 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.