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
  • Dead LeavesDeep Cut85points
  • Dead Man's LettersDeep Cut85points
  • Dead Men WalkingDeep Cut85points
  • Dead Mountaineer's HotelDeep Cut85points
  • Dead of Night (1977)Deep Cut85points
  • Dead or Alive: FinalDeep Cut85points
  • Dead PlanetDeep Cut85points
  • Dead SeasonDeep Cut85points
  • Dead ShadowsDeep Cut85points
  • Dead SpaceDeep Cut85points
  • Dead Space: AftermathDeep Cut85points
  • Dead Space: DownfallDeep Cut85points
  • Dead SunriseDeep Cut85points
  • Dead TriggerDeep Cut85points
  • Deadly EyesDeep Cut85points
  • Deadly FriendDeep Cut85points
  • Deadly InstinctsDeep Cut85points
  • Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee NightmareDeep Cut85points
  • Death HouseDeep Cut85points
  • Death MachineDeep Cut85points
  • Death Race 2Deep Cut85points
  • Death Race 2000Deep Cut85points
  • Death Race 2050Deep Cut85points
  • Death Race 3: InfernoDeep Cut85points
  • Death Race 4: Beyond AnarchyDeep Cut85points
  • Death RacersDeep Cut85points
  • Death ValleyDeep Cut85points
  • Death Warmed UpDeep Cut85points
  • Death WatchDeep Cut85points
  • DeathsportDeep Cut85points
  • DebugDeep Cut85points
  • DecoderDeep Cut85points
  • DecoysDeep Cut85points
  • Decoys 2: Alien SeductionDeep Cut85points
  • Deep (2021)Deep Cut85points
  • Deep Blue Sea 2Deep Cut85points
  • Deep Blue Sea 3Deep Cut85points
  • Deep CoreDeep Cut85points
  • Deep EvilDeep Cut85points
  • Deep FreezeDeep Cut85points
  • Deep RisingDeep Cut85points
  • Deep ShockDeep Cut85points
  • Deep SpaceDeep Cut85points
  • DeepStar SixDeep Cut85points
  • DEFCON-4Deep Cut85points
  • Demon SeedDeep Cut85points
  • DemonicDeep Cut85points
  • DemonwarpDeep Cut85points
  • DerangedDeep Cut85points
  • DescendentDeep 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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