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
  • Red PlanetDeep Cut85points
  • Red Planet MarsDeep Cut85points
  • Red WaterDeep Cut85points
  • RedlineDeep Cut85points
  • Redline (1997)Deep Cut85points
  • Redux ReduxDeep Cut85points
  • Reflection in a Dead DiamondDeep Cut85points
  • Regular Show: The MovieDeep Cut85points
  • Reign of the SupermenDeep Cut85points
  • Relax, I'm from the FutureDeep Cut85points
  • Remains (2011)Deep Cut85points
  • RememoryDeep Cut85points
  • ReminiscenceDeep Cut85points
  • Remote ControlDeep Cut85points
  • RenaissanceDeep Cut85points
  • RepeatersDeep Cut85points
  • ReplaceDeep Cut85points
  • Repli-KateDeep Cut85points
  • ReplicantDeep Cut85points
  • ReplicasDeep Cut85points
  • Repo ManDeep Cut85points
  • Repo MenDeep Cut85points
  • Repo! The Genetic OperaDeep Cut85points
  • ReptilianDeep Cut85points
  • ReptilicusDeep Cut85points
  • ResetDeep Cut85points
  • Resident Evil: DamnationDeep Cut85points
  • Resident Evil: Death IslandDeep Cut85points
  • Resident Evil: DegenerationDeep Cut85points
  • Resident Evil: VendettaDeep Cut85points
  • Restore PointDeep Cut85points
  • ResurrectedDeep Cut85points
  • ResurrectionDeep Cut85points
  • Resurrection of the Little Match GirlDeep Cut85points
  • RetroactiveDeep Cut85points
  • RetrogradeDeep Cut85points
  • Return from Witch MountainDeep Cut85points
  • Return of the FlyDeep Cut85points
  • Return of the Killer Tomatoes!Deep Cut85points
  • Return of the Living Dead IIDeep Cut85points
  • Return of the Living Dead: NecropolisDeep Cut85points
  • Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the GraveDeep Cut85points
  • Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1Deep Cut85points
  • Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High Aka Vol. 2Deep Cut85points
  • ReturnerDeep Cut85points
  • RevelationDeep Cut85points
  • Revenge of the CreatureDeep Cut85points
  • RevoltDeep Cut85points
  • RewindDeep Cut85points
  • Rewind (2023)Deep 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

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy