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
- SimulantDeep Cut85points
- Sinbad and the MinotaurDeep Cut85points
- Sing a Bit of HarmonyDeep Cut85points
- SingularityDeep Cut85points
- Sinking of JapanDeep Cut85points
- Siren HeadDeep Cut85points
- Six-String SamuraiDeep Cut85points
- Six: The Mark UnleashedDeep Cut85points
- Sixty Million Dollar ManDeep Cut85points
- SkeeterDeep Cut85points
- Skinwalker RanchDeep Cut85points
- Sky BlueDeep Cut85points
- Sky Captain and the World of TomorrowDeep Cut85points
- Sky SharksDeep Cut85points
- SkylineDeep Cut85points
- SkylinesDeep Cut85points
- SkyrunnersDeep Cut85points
- SlantedDeep Cut85points
- Slapstick of Another KindDeep Cut85points
- Slash/BackDeep Cut85points
- Slaughterhouse-FiveDeep Cut85points
- Slave Girls from Beyond InfinityDeep Cut85points
- Sleep DealerDeep Cut85points
- SleeperDeep Cut85points
- SleightDeep Cut85points
- SlingshotDeep Cut85points
- Slipstream (1989)Deep Cut85points
- Slipstream (2005)Deep Cut85points
- SlithisDeep Cut85points
- Smart HouseDeep Cut85points
- Smilla's Sense of SnowDeep Cut85points
- Smoking Causes CoughingDeep Cut85points
- Smosh: The MovieDeep Cut85points
- Snake EyesDeep Cut85points
- Snakehead TerrorDeep Cut85points
- SnatchersDeep Cut85points
- Snow BeastDeep Cut85points
- Snow, Tea and LoveDeep Cut85points
- SnowmageddonDeep Cut85points
- Solar AttackDeep Cut85points
- Solar CrisisDeep Cut85points
- Solar ImpactDeep Cut85points
- SolarbabiesDeep Cut85points
- SoldierDeep Cut85points
- Sole SurvivorDeep Cut85points
- SolisDeep Cut85points
- SolitaryDeep Cut85points
- Solo (1996)Deep Cut85points
- Some Time LaterDeep Cut85points
- Something BeneathDeep 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.