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
- WedlockDeep Cut85points
- Welcome to the Space ShowDeep Cut85points
- Welcome to WillitsDeep Cut85points
- WerewolvesDeep Cut85points
- What Lies BelowDeep Cut85points
- What Planet Are You From?Deep Cut85points
- What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?Deep Cut85points
- What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space NineDeep Cut85points
- What Women Want (2011)Deep Cut85points
- Wheels of FireDeep Cut85points
- When Dinosaurs Ruled the EarthDeep Cut85points
- When Worlds CollideDeep Cut85points
- Where Have All the People GoneDeep Cut85points
- White ChamberDeep Cut85points
- White Plastic SkyDeep Cut85points
- White WallDeep Cut85points
- WhoDeep Cut85points
- Who Wants to Kill Jessie?Deep Cut85points
- Wicked CityDeep Cut85points
- WifelikeDeep Cut85points
- Wild ZeroDeep Cut85points
- Wing CommanderDeep Cut85points
- Without WarningDeep Cut85points
- Without Warning (1994)Deep Cut85points
- WizardsDeep Cut85points
- Wolf ManDeep Cut85points
- Wolf's HoleDeep Cut85points
- WombDeep Cut85points
- Women of the Prehistoric PlanetDeep Cut85points
- Wonder Woman (2009)Deep Cut85points
- Wonder Woman (2011)Deep Cut85points
- Wonder WomenDeep Cut85points
- Wonderland (2024)Deep Cut85points
- World Gone WildDeep Cut85points
- World Without EndDeep Cut85points
- World's End (2010)Deep Cut85points
- WorldbreakerDeep Cut85points
- WXIII: PatlaborDeep Cut85points
- WyvernDeep Cut85points
- X the UnknownDeep Cut85points
- X: The Man with the X-Ray EyesDeep Cut85points
- XchangeDeep Cut85points
- XenoDeep Cut85points
- XtroDeep Cut85points
- Xtro 3: Watch the SkiesDeep Cut85points
- Xtro II: The Second EncounterDeep Cut85points
- Y2KDeep Cut85points
- YashodaDeep Cut85points
- Year 10Deep Cut85points
- Yongary, Monster from the DeepDeep 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.