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
- The Call UpDeep Cut85points
- The Caller (1987)Deep Cut85points
- The CaptainsDeep Cut85points
- The CaptureDeep Cut85points
- The CarrierDeep Cut85points
- The Cars That Ate ParisDeep Cut85points
- The Castle of the Living DeadDeep Cut85points
- The CatDeep Cut85points
- The Cat from Outer SpaceDeep Cut85points
- The CaveDeep Cut85points
- The CellDeep Cut85points
- The Cell 2Deep Cut85points
- The Chain Reaction (1980)Deep Cut85points
- The ChangedDeep Cut85points
- The Children (1980)Deep Cut85points
- The ChosenDeep Cut85points
- The Chronicles of Riddick: Into Pitch BlackDeep Cut85points
- The City of Lost ChildrenDeep Cut85points
- The Clonus HorrorDeep Cut85points
- The CloudDeep Cut85points
- The Coed and the Zombie StonerDeep Cut85points
- The CollapsedDeep Cut85points
- The ColonyDeep Cut85points
- The Colony (2021)Deep Cut85points
- The Colossus of New YorkDeep Cut85points
- The Coming DaysDeep Cut85points
- The Computer Wore Tennis ShoesDeep Cut85points
- The CongressDeep Cut85points
- The Control (2018)Deep Cut85points
- The Corpse VanishesDeep Cut85points
- The CorridorDeep Cut85points
- The Crater Lake MonsterDeep Cut85points
- The CrawlersDeep Cut85points
- The Crawling EyeDeep Cut85points
- The Crawling HandDeep Cut85points
- The Crazies (1973)Deep Cut85points
- The Creation of the HumanoidsDeep Cut85points
- The Creature BelowDeep Cut85points
- The Creature Walks Among UsDeep Cut85points
- The Creature Wasn't NiceDeep Cut85points
- The Creeping FleshDeep Cut85points
- The Creeping TerrorDeep Cut85points
- The CuredDeep Cut85points
- The CurseDeep Cut85points
- The Curse of FrankensteinDeep Cut85points
- The Curse of the KomodoDeep Cut85points
- The Cyclops (1957)Deep Cut85points
- The DamnedDeep Cut85points
- The Dark (1979)Deep Cut85points
- The Dark (1993)Deep 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.