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
- Fireworks (2017)Deep Cut85points
- First Man Into SpaceDeep Cut85points
- First Men in the MoonDeep Cut85points
- First SignalDeep Cut85points
- First Spaceship on VenusDeep Cut85points
- First Squad: The Moment of TruthDeep Cut85points
- First Time (2026)Deep Cut85points
- Fist of the North StarDeep Cut85points
- FiveDeep Cut85points
- Five Million Years to EarthDeep Cut85points
- Five Weeks in a BalloonDeep Cut85points
- Flash Gordon (1936)Deep Cut85points
- Flash Gordon Conquers the UniverseDeep Cut85points
- Flash Gordon's Trip to MarsDeep Cut85points
- FlashbackDeep Cut85points
- FlatlandDeep Cut85points
- Flatliners (2017)Deep Cut85points
- Flesh for FrankensteinDeep Cut85points
- Flesh GordonDeep Cut85points
- Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic CheerleadersDeep Cut85points
- Flight 7500Deep Cut85points
- Flight of the Living DeadDeep Cut85points
- Flight That DisappearedDeep Cut85points
- Flight to MarsDeep Cut85points
- Flight World War IIDeep Cut85points
- Flowers for AlgernonDeep Cut85points
- FluDeep Cut85points
- Flying VirusDeep Cut85points
- FlytrapDeep Cut85points
- FoeDeep Cut85points
- Food of the Gods IIDeep Cut85points
- For All TimeDeep Cut85points
- For the Good of OthersDeep Cut85points
- Forbidden WorldDeep Cut85points
- Forever YoungDeep Cut85points
- Forgive Us AllDeep Cut85points
- FortressDeep Cut85points
- Fortress 2: Re-EntryDeep Cut85points
- Four Sided TriangleDeep Cut85points
- Foxtrot SixDeep Cut85points
- FrankenfishDeep Cut85points
- FrankenhookerDeep Cut85points
- Frankenstein (2004)Deep Cut85points
- Frankenstein (2015)Deep Cut85points
- Frankenstein 1970Deep Cut85points
- Frankenstein and the Monster from HellDeep Cut85points
- Frankenstein Created WomanDeep Cut85points
- Frankenstein IslandDeep Cut85points
- Frankenstein Meets the SpacemonsterDeep Cut85points
- Frankenstein Meets the Wolf ManDeep 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.