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 UntamedDeep Cut85points
- The Unthinkable (2018)Deep Cut85points
- The Valley of GwangiDeep Cut85points
- The VampireDeep Cut85points
- The VanguardDeep Cut85points
- The Vast of NightDeep Cut85points
- The VeilDeep Cut85points
- The VelociPastorDeep Cut85points
- The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon HeartDeep Cut85points
- The VenusianDeep Cut85points
- The VindicatorDeep Cut85points
- The Visitor (1979)Deep Cut85points
- The Visitor from the FutureDeep Cut85points
- The VoidDeep Cut85points
- The Walking DeadDeep Cut85points
- The WallDeep Cut85points
- The Wandering EarthDeep Cut85points
- The Wandering Earth IIDeep Cut85points
- The War of the GargantuasDeep Cut85points
- The War of the Worlds (1953)Deep Cut85points
- The War of the Worlds: Next CenturyDeep Cut85points
- The Wasp WomanDeep Cut85points
- The Wave (2019)Deep Cut85points
- The WerewolfDeep Cut85points
- The Whisperer in DarknessDeep Cut85points
- The Whispering StarDeep Cut85points
- The White KingDeep Cut85points
- The Wicked City (1992)Deep Cut85points
- The Wild Blue YonderDeep Cut85points
- The Wild World of BatwomanDeep Cut85points
- The Wild, Wild PlanetDeep Cut85points
- The Witch: Part 1 - The SubversionDeep Cut85points
- The World, the Flesh and the DevilDeep Cut85points
- The WorthyDeep Cut85points
- The WraithDeep Cut85points
- The X from Outer SpaceDeep Cut85points
- The Zero TheoremDeep Cut85points
- The Zohar SecretDeep Cut85points
- Theodore RexDeep Cut85points
- These Final HoursDeep Cut85points
- They Call Me Jeeg RobotDeep Cut85points
- They Came from Beyond SpaceDeep Cut85points
- They Cloned TyroneDeep Cut85points
- They NestDeep Cut85points
- They Saved Hitler's BrainDeep Cut85points
- Things to ComeDeep Cut85points
- Things Will Be DifferentDeep Cut85points
- This Is Not a TestDeep Cut85points
- This Island EarthDeep Cut85points
- Those Fantastic Flying FoolsDeep 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.