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
- Pungo: A Witch's TaleDeep Cut85points
- Puppet Master 4Deep Cut85points
- Puppet Master 5Deep Cut85points
- Puppet Master IIDeep Cut85points
- Puppet Master III: Toulon's RevengeDeep Cut85points
- Puppet Master: Axis of EvilDeep Cut85points
- Puppet Master: Axis TerminationDeep Cut85points
- Puppet Master: The LegacyDeep Cut85points
- Purple People EaterDeep Cut85points
- PushDeep Cut85points
- PylDeep Cut85points
- Python 2Deep Cut85points
- Quantum ApocalypseDeep Cut85points
- QuarantineDeep Cut85points
- Quarantine 2: TerminalDeep Cut85points
- Quatermass 2Deep Cut85points
- Queen of BloodDeep Cut85points
- Queen of Outer SpaceDeep Cut85points
- QuintetDeep Cut85points
- R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the DamnedDeep Cut85points
- R.O.T.O.R.Deep Cut85points
- Ra.OneDeep Cut85points
- RabidDeep Cut85points
- Rabid (2019)Deep Cut85points
- Race to Witch MountainDeep Cut85points
- Radar Men from the MoonDeep Cut85points
- Radio Free AlbemuthDeep Cut85points
- Radioactive DreamsDeep Cut85points
- RadioflashDeep Cut85points
- RadiusDeep Cut85points
- Rage of StarsDeep Cut85points
- Raging SharksDeep Cut85points
- Rainbow Brite and the Star StealerDeep Cut85points
- RaptorDeep Cut85points
- Raptor IslandDeep Cut85points
- Ratchet & ClankDeep Cut85points
- Rats: Night of TerrorDeep Cut85points
- RazortoothDeep Cut85points
- RealDeep Cut85points
- Real GeniusDeep Cut85points
- Real MenDeep Cut85points
- Real Playing GameDeep Cut85points
- RealiveDeep Cut85points
- ReaperDeep Cut85points
- Rebel Moon - Part Two: The ScargiverDeep Cut85points
- Rebirth of MothraDeep Cut85points
- Rebirth of Mothra IIDeep Cut85points
- Rebirth of Mothra IIIDeep Cut85points
- Red Faction: OriginsDeep Cut85points
- Red MistDeep 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.