Name a sci-fi movie (tagged Sci-Fi on IMDb, 1,000+ votes)

November 4, 2026 · Daily Dive #112

Explore 4,153 recorded answers and their points for question 5 on November 4, 2026.

Dated record7 questions · 30,015 recorded answers

4,153 recorded names on November 4, 2026, 3,534 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Work the long tail of the catalogue rather than the famous shelf: filter by the genre label, sort by vote count, and move through decades and countries. Any feature film or made-for-television movie carrying the Sci-Fi label in its database genre field with more than one thousand votes qualifies; shorts, series episodes and untagged titles do not.

4,153 recorded answers3,534 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut3,53385 pts
  • Rare52460 pts
  • Schooler8430 pts
  • Plankton1110 pts
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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.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 4 Nov, 12:25 UTC

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy