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

November 4, 2026 · Daily Dive #112

Explore 4,144 recorded answers and their points for question 5 on November 4, 2026.

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4,144 recorded names on November 4, 2026, 3,525 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.

4,144 recorded answers3,525 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut3,52485 pts
  • Rare52460 pts
  • Schooler8430 pts
  • Plankton1110 pts
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Recorded answers

4,144 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 4,144
  • AtomicaDeep Cut85points
  • AtragonDeep Cut85points
  • AttackDeep Cut85points
  • Attack ForceDeep Cut85points
  • Attack of the 50 Foot CheerleaderDeep Cut85points
  • Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1993)Deep Cut85points
  • Attack of the 60 Foot CenterfoldsDeep Cut85points
  • Attack of the Corn ZombiesDeep Cut85points
  • Attack of the Crab MonstersDeep Cut85points
  • Attack of the Eye CreaturesDeep Cut85points
  • Attack of the Giant LeechesDeep Cut85points
  • Attack of the Meth GatorDeep Cut85points
  • Attack of the Mushroom PeopleDeep Cut85points
  • Attack of the Puppet PeopleDeep Cut85points
  • Attack of the SabertoothDeep Cut85points
  • Attack of the UnknownDeep Cut85points
  • AttractionDeep Cut85points
  • Attraction 2: InvasionDeep Cut85points
  • August 8Deep Cut85points
  • August in the WaterDeep Cut85points
  • AutomataDeep Cut85points
  • AutumnDeep Cut85points
  • Avalanche SharksDeep Cut85points
  • AvalonDeep Cut85points
  • Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & PunisherDeep Cut85points
  • Avengers GrimmDeep Cut85points
  • AVH: Alien vs. HunterDeep Cut85points
  • Await Further InstructionsDeep Cut85points
  • AwakeDeep Cut85points
  • AwarenessDeep Cut85points
  • AxcelleratorDeep Cut85points
  • AyalaanDeep Cut85points
  • Baar Baar DekhoDeep Cut85points
  • Baby GeniusesDeep Cut85points
  • Baby: Secret of the Lost LegendDeep Cut85points
  • Babylon 5: A Call to ArmsDeep Cut85points
  • Babylon 5: In the BeginningDeep Cut85points
  • Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers: To Live and Die in StarlightDeep Cut85points
  • Babylon 5: The River of SoulsDeep Cut85points
  • Babylon 5: The Road HomeDeep Cut85points
  • Babylon 5: ThirdspaceDeep Cut85points
  • Babylon A.D.Deep Cut85points
  • Back to the PastDeep Cut85points
  • Back to the Planet of the ApesDeep Cut85points
  • BacklightDeep Cut85points
  • Bad ChannelsDeep Cut85points
  • Bad TasteDeep Cut85points
  • Bade Miyan Chote MiyanDeep Cut85points
  • Badland HuntersDeep Cut85points
  • BaidaDeep 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, 08:15 UTC

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