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
- Yor: The Hunter from the FutureDeep Cut85points
- You're So Cupid!Deep Cut85points
- Young OnesDeep Cut85points
- Z for ZachariahDeep Cut85points
- ZaatDeep Cut85points
- Zaman Makinesi 1973Deep Cut85points
- ZanoxDeep Cut85points
- Zapped Again!Deep Cut85points
- Zapped!Deep Cut85points
- ZardozDeep Cut85points
- ZebramanDeep Cut85points
- ZeiramDeep Cut85points
- ZenithDeep Cut85points
- Zenon: Girl of the 21st CenturyDeep Cut85points
- Zenon: The ZequelDeep Cut85points
- Zenon: Z3Deep Cut85points
- ZerogradDeep Cut85points
- ZiamDeep Cut85points
- ZMD: Zombies of Mass DestructionDeep Cut85points
- Zodiac: Signs of the ApocalypseDeep Cut85points
- ZoeDeep Cut85points
- Zombie 3Deep Cut85points
- Zombie DiariesDeep Cut85points
- Zombie Diaries 2Deep Cut85points
- Zombie for SaleDeep Cut85points
- Zombie Ninjas vs Black OpsDeep Cut85points
- Zombie Strippers!Deep Cut85points
- Zombie WarsDeep Cut85points
- Zone 414Deep Cut85points
- Zone of the DeadDeep Cut85points
- Zone TroopersDeep Cut85points
- Zontar: The Thing from VenusDeep Cut85points
- ZoomDeep Cut85points
- ZoombiesDeep Cut85points
- 10 Cloverfield LaneRare60points
- 1984Rare60points
- 20,000 Leagues Under the SeaRare60points
- 2012Rare60points
- 28 Days LaterRare60points
- 28 Weeks LaterRare60points
- 28 Years LaterRare60points
- 28 Years Later: The Bone TempleRare60points
- 65Rare60points
- 9Rare60points
- A Quiet Place Part IIRare60points
- A Quiet Place: Day OneRare60points
- A Scanner DarklyRare60points
- A Wrinkle in Time (2018)Rare60points
- A.I. Artificial IntelligenceRare60points
- Ad AstraRare60points
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.