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
- Something in the DirtDeep Cut85points
- Somewhere in TimeDeep Cut85points
- SomniumDeep Cut85points
- Son of BlobDeep Cut85points
- Son of FlubberDeep Cut85points
- Son of FrankensteinDeep Cut85points
- Son of GodzillaDeep Cut85points
- Son of KongDeep Cut85points
- SongbirdDeep Cut85points
- Soulm8teDeep Cut85points
- Sound of My VoiceDeep Cut85points
- South of Hope StreetDeep Cut85points
- Southland TalesDeep Cut85points
- Space Adventure CobraDeep Cut85points
- Space AmoebaDeep Cut85points
- Space Battleship YamatoDeep Cut85points
- Space BuddiesDeep Cut85points
- Space ChimpsDeep Cut85points
- Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes BackDeep Cut85points
- Space CopDeep Cut85points
- Space Is the PlaceDeep Cut85points
- Space MilkshakeDeep Cut85points
- Space MutinyDeep Cut85points
- Space OddityDeep Cut85points
- Space Odyssey: Voyage to the PlanetsDeep Cut85points
- Space RaidersDeep Cut85points
- Space Station 76Deep Cut85points
- Space SweepersDeep Cut85points
- Space TruckersDeep Cut85points
- Space WarriorsDeep Cut85points
- Space Wars: Quest for the DeepstarDeep Cut85points
- Space/TimeDeep Cut85points
- SpaceCampDeep Cut85points
- Spaced InvadersDeep Cut85points
- Spaced OutDeep Cut85points
- Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden ZoneDeep Cut85points
- SpacemanDeep Cut85points
- Spark: A Space TailDeep Cut85points
- SparksDeep Cut85points
- SpasmsDeep Cut85points
- SpecialDeep Cut85points
- Species IIDeep Cut85points
- Species IIIDeep Cut85points
- Species: The AwakeningDeep Cut85points
- SpectralDeep Cut85points
- Spider-Man Strikes BackDeep Cut85points
- Spider-Man: LotusDeep Cut85points
- Spider-Man: The Dragon's ChallengeDeep Cut85points
- SpiderBabeDeep Cut85points
- SpiderheadDeep 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.