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
- SpidersDeep Cut85points
- Spiders (2000)Deep Cut85points
- Spiders II: Breeding GroundDeep Cut85points
- Spies in DisguiseDeep Cut85points
- SplinterDeep Cut85points
- Split SecondDeep Cut85points
- Splitting AdamDeep Cut85points
- Spontaneous CombustionDeep Cut85points
- SprigganDeep Cut85points
- SpringDeep Cut85points
- SputnikDeep Cut85points
- Spy Kids 3: Game OverDeep Cut85points
- Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the WorldDeep Cut85points
- Spy Kids: ArmageddonDeep Cut85points
- SssssssDeep Cut85points
- Stalker: The Curse of the ZoneDeep Cut85points
- Stand by Me DoraemonDeep Cut85points
- Stand by Me Doraemon 2Deep Cut85points
- Star CrystalDeep Cut85points
- Star KidDeep Cut85points
- Star Trek: Of Gods and MenDeep Cut85points
- Star Trek: Section 31Deep Cut85points
- Star Wars: RevelationsDeep Cut85points
- Star Wars: The Force UnleashedDeep Cut85points
- Star Wreck: In the PirkinningDeep Cut85points
- Starchaser: The Legend of OrinDeep Cut85points
- StarcrashDeep Cut85points
- StarfishDeep Cut85points
- Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't LandDeep Cut85points
- Stargate: ContinuumDeep Cut85points
- Stargate: The Ark of TruthDeep Cut85points
- Starship InvasionsDeep Cut85points
- Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the FederationDeep Cut85points
- Starship Troopers 3: MarauderDeep Cut85points
- Starship Troopers: InvasionDeep Cut85points
- Starship Troopers: Traitor of MarsDeep Cut85points
- StasisDeep Cut85points
- State of EmergencyDeep Cut85points
- Static CodesDeep Cut85points
- StealthDeep Cut85points
- SteamboyDeep Cut85points
- SteelDeep Cut85points
- Steel and LaceDeep Cut85points
- Steel DawnDeep Cut85points
- Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà VuDeep Cut85points
- Stepsister from Planet WeirdDeep Cut85points
- StereoDeep Cut85points
- Steven Universe: The MovieDeep Cut85points
- Sting (2024)Deep Cut85points
- Stitch! The MovieDeep 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.