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
- Rich FluDeep Cut85points
- Richard IIIDeep Cut85points
- Riders to the StarsDeep Cut85points
- Riding with DeathDeep Cut85points
- Right at Your DoorDeep Cut85points
- Riki-Oh: The Story of RickyDeep Cut85points
- Rim of the WorldDeep Cut85points
- Ring 2Deep Cut85points
- Rio 2096: A Story of Love and FuryDeep Cut85points
- Rise of the Black BatDeep Cut85points
- Rise of the ZombiesDeep Cut85points
- Risen (2021)Deep Cut85points
- Rising WolfDeep Cut85points
- RiverDeep Cut85points
- RiverworldDeep Cut85points
- Roadkill (2011)Deep Cut85points
- Robinson Crusoe on MarsDeep Cut85points
- RoboDeep Cut85points
- Robo VampireDeep Cut85points
- RobocrocDeep Cut85points
- RoboGeishaDeep Cut85points
- RobosharkDeep Cut85points
- Robot & FrankDeep Cut85points
- Robot AwakeningDeep Cut85points
- Robot CarnivalDeep Cut85points
- Robot HolocaustDeep Cut85points
- Robot JoxDeep Cut85points
- Robot MonsterDeep Cut85points
- Robot OverlordsDeep Cut85points
- Robot StoriesDeep Cut85points
- Robot WarsDeep Cut85points
- Robotech: The Shadow ChroniclesDeep Cut85points
- RobotrixDeep Cut85points
- RobotropolisDeep Cut85points
- Robots (2023)Deep Cut85points
- RobowarDeep Cut85points
- Rock & RuleDeep Cut85points
- RocketMan (1997)Deep Cut85points
- Rocketship X-MDeep Cut85points
- RodanDeep Cut85points
- Rogue Warrior: Robot FighterDeep Cut85points
- RollerballDeep Cut85points
- Rollerball (2002)Deep Cut85points
- Roman BathDeep Cut85points
- Ron's Gone WrongDeep Cut85points
- Rose of NevadaDeep Cut85points
- RoswellDeep Cut85points
- RottweilerDeep Cut85points
- Roujin ZDeep Cut85points
- Royal Space Force: The Wings of HonneamiseDeep 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.