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 EndDeep Cut85points
- The End (2024)Deep Cut85points
- The EndlessDeep Cut85points
- The Erotic Rites of FrankensteinDeep Cut85points
- The Ewok AdventureDeep Cut85points
- The Exterminators of the Year 3000Deep Cut85points
- The Fabulous Baron MunchausenDeep Cut85points
- The Face of AnotherDeep Cut85points
- The FallsDeep Cut85points
- The Fantastic Four (1994)Deep Cut85points
- The Final CountdownDeep Cut85points
- The Final CutDeep Cut85points
- The Final PhaseDeep Cut85points
- The Final ProgrammeDeep Cut85points
- The First Men in the Moon (2010)Deep Cut85points
- The FixDeep Cut85points
- The Flash II: Revenge of the TricksterDeep Cut85points
- The Flesh EatersDeep Cut85points
- The Flintstones in Viva Rock VegasDeep Cut85points
- The Fly (1958)Deep Cut85points
- The Fly IIDeep Cut85points
- The Food of the GodsDeep Cut85points
- The ForgottenDeep Cut85points
- The Fourth KindDeep Cut85points
- The Frankenstein TheoryDeep Cut85points
- The Friendship GameDeep Cut85points
- The Frozen DeadDeep Cut85points
- The Fury (1978)Deep Cut85points
- The Galaxy InvaderDeep Cut85points
- The Gamma PeopleDeep Cut85points
- The GatewayDeep Cut85points
- The Gendarme and the Extra-TerrestrialsDeep Cut85points
- The Gene GenerationDeep Cut85points
- The Ghost of FrankensteinDeep Cut85points
- The GhostmakerDeep Cut85points
- The Giant BehemothDeep Cut85points
- The Giant ClawDeep Cut85points
- The Giant Gila MonsterDeep Cut85points
- The Giant Spider InvasionDeep Cut85points
- The Gifted HandsDeep Cut85points
- The Girl from MondayDeep Cut85points
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983)Deep Cut85points
- The Girl with All the GiftsDeep Cut85points
- The Gracefield IncidentDeep Cut85points
- The Grand TourDeep Cut85points
- The Great FloodDeep Cut85points
- The Green PlanetDeep Cut85points
- The Green SlimeDeep Cut85points
- The Groundstar ConspiracyDeep Cut85points
- The Gulf of SilenceDeep 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.