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 Space Between UsDeep Cut85points
- The Space ChildrenDeep Cut85points
- The Speed of ThoughtDeep Cut85points
- The Spider (1958)Deep Cut85points
- The Starving GamesDeep Cut85points
- The Stepford Wives (1975)Deep Cut85points
- The Stone TapeDeep Cut85points
- The Story of MankindDeep Cut85points
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss OsbourneDeep Cut85points
- The Strange World of Planet XDeep Cut85points
- The Strongest Man in the WorldDeep Cut85points
- The StuffDeep Cut85points
- The Substitute (2007)Deep Cut85points
- The Suite Life MovieDeep Cut85points
- The SuperdeepDeep Cut85points
- The SurvivalistDeep Cut85points
- The Survivalist (2021)Deep Cut85points
- The Terminal ManDeep Cut85points
- The TerminatorsDeep Cut85points
- The Terror WithinDeep Cut85points
- The Terror Within IIDeep Cut85points
- The ThawDeep Cut85points
- The Thing BelowDeep Cut85points
- The Thing from Another WorldDeep Cut85points
- The Thing with Two HeadsDeep Cut85points
- The Thinking GameDeep Cut85points
- The ThinningDeep Cut85points
- The Thinning: New World OrderDeep Cut85points
- The Thirteenth FloorDeep Cut85points
- The Three Stooges in OrbitDeep Cut85points
- The Time GuardianDeep Cut85points
- The Time Machine (1960)Deep Cut85points
- The Time MastersDeep Cut85points
- The Time TravelersDeep Cut85points
- The TinglerDeep Cut85points
- The TitanDeep Cut85points
- The Tomorrow JobDeep Cut85points
- The Toxic AvengerDeep Cut85points
- The Toxic Avenger (2023)Deep Cut85points
- The Toxic Avenger Part IIDeep Cut85points
- The Trial of the Incredible HulkDeep Cut85points
- The Trouble with Being BornDeep Cut85points
- The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of GoodbyesDeep Cut85points
- The Two Worlds of Jennie LoganDeep Cut85points
- The Ugly SwansDeep Cut85points
- The Ultimate WarriorDeep Cut85points
- The Unborn (1991)Deep Cut85points
- The UnearthlyDeep Cut85points
- The UnhealerDeep Cut85points
- The Unknown (2000)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.