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.

Current edition7 questions · 30,015 recorded answersNext edition

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
05

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
  • Self/lessDeep Cut85points
  • SensationDeep Cut85points
  • SeobokDeep Cut85points
  • Septic ManDeep Cut85points
  • SettlersDeep Cut85points
  • SeveredDeep Cut85points
  • SexmissionDeep Cut85points
  • Sexy Killer: You'll Die for HerDeep Cut85points
  • ShadowchaserDeep Cut85points
  • ShadowzoneDeep Cut85points
  • ShakmaDeep Cut85points
  • Shanghai FortressDeep Cut85points
  • ShankDeep Cut85points
  • Shark AttackDeep Cut85points
  • Shark Attack 2Deep Cut85points
  • Shark Attack 3: MegalodonDeep Cut85points
  • Shark Side of the MoonDeep Cut85points
  • Shark SwarmDeep Cut85points
  • Sharkansas Women's Prison MassacreDeep Cut85points
  • SharkManDeep Cut85points
  • Sharknado 2: The Second OneDeep Cut85points
  • Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!Deep Cut85points
  • Sharknado 4: The 4th AwakensDeep Cut85points
  • Sharknado 5: Global SwarmingDeep Cut85points
  • SharktopusDeep Cut85points
  • Sharktopus vs. PteracudaDeep Cut85points
  • Sharktopus vs. WhalewolfDeep Cut85points
  • SheDeep Cut85points
  • Sheep in the BoxDeep Cut85points
  • Sherlock Holmes (2010)Deep Cut85points
  • Shin GodzillaDeep Cut85points
  • Shin Kamen RiderDeep Cut85points
  • Shin UltramanDeep Cut85points
  • ShiversDeep Cut85points
  • Shock WavesDeep Cut85points
  • Shocking DarkDeep Cut85points
  • Short Circuit 2Deep Cut85points
  • ShortwaveDeep Cut85points
  • Showdown at Area 51Deep Cut85points
  • Signal OneDeep Cut85points
  • Significant OtherDeep Cut85points
  • Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy MakerDeep Cut85points
  • Silent PredatorsDeep Cut85points
  • Silent RageDeep Cut85points
  • Silent RunningDeep Cut85points
  • Silent WarningsDeep Cut85points
  • Silent ZoneDeep Cut85points
  • SilkDeep Cut85points
  • Silver HawkDeep Cut85points
  • SimonDeep 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