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The Incredible Shrinking Man
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) is a Universal science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold, written by Richard Matheson from his novel The Shrinking Man, starring Grant Williams as Scott Carey, who shrinks after radioactive mist exposure; it won the first Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
The Invisible Woman (1940 film)
The Invisible Woman (1940) is Universal's screwball sci-fi comedy, the third Invisible Man film, directed by A. Edward Sutherland with Virginia Bruce and John Barrymore; unlike the Wells-based entries it shares no continuity, uses an alcohol-triggered invisibility machine, and earned a Best Special Effects Oscar nomination.
The Last Man on Earth (1964 film)
The Last Man on Earth (L'ultimo uomo della Terra), 1964 Italian-American sci-fi horror film by Sidney Salkow and Ubaldo Ragona, starring Vincent Price as plague survivor Robert Morgan; first and most faithful adaptation of Matheson's I Am Legend.
The Lost World (1960 film)
The Lost World (1960) is Irwin Allen's CinemaScope Twentieth Century-Fox adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel, starring Claude Rains, Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, and David Hedison, known for live lizards with glued-on fins standing in for dinosaurs.
The Nutty Professor (1963 film)
The Nutty Professor (1963) is a Jerry Lewis Paramount comedy, directed and co-written by Lewis with Bill Richmond, in which nerdy chemistry professor Julius Kelp's potion creates the suave Buddy Love; 107 minutes, released July 1963, remade with Eddie Murphy in 1996.
The President's Analyst
The President's Analyst is a 1967 Paramount satire directed by Theodore J. Flicker, starring James Coburn as psychiatrist Sidney Schaefer, hunted by spies and the Telephone Company after becoming the President's psychoanalyst.
The Punisher (1989 film)
The Punisher (1989), Spanish title El vengador, is Mark Goldblatt's vigilante action film starring Dolph Lundgren as Marvel's Frank Castle; shot in Australia, denied a US theatrical release, and issued on American home video in June 1991.
The Quatermass Xperiment
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), aka The Creeping Unknown, is Hammer Films' Val Guest-directed adaptation of Nigel Kneale's BBC serial, starring Brian Donlevy; its X certificate and success launched the British horror boom.
The Saragossa Manuscript
The Saragossa Manuscript (Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie) is Wojciech Jerzy Has's 1964 Polish black-and-white film adapting Jan Potocki's nested frame-tale novel, starring Zbigniew Cybulski, with Penderecki's score, and restored in 4K by WFDiF.
The Singing Ringing Tree
The Singing Ringing Tree (Das singende, klingende Bäumchen) is a 1957 DEFA East German fairy-tale film by Francesco Stefani about a princess, a prince turned bear, and an evil dwarf, famous as a spooky BBC cult serial.
The Thing from Another World
The Thing from Another World (1951) is an RKO black-and-white sci-fi horror film directed by Christian Nyby and produced by Howard Hawks, adapted loosely from John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?"; an Arctic crew thaws a humanoid alien (James Arness) from a crashed saucer.
The Time Machine (1960 film)
The Time Machine (1960) is George Pal's MGM science fiction film adapted from H.G. Wells's novella, starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux, set partly in the year 802,701 with the Eloi and Morlocks, and winner of the 1960 Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
The Time Travelers
The Time Travelers (1964), also known as Time Trap, is an American science fiction film directed by Ib Melchior for Dobil Productions and AIP, in which scientists stranded 107 years in the future face mutants and androids in a post-nuclear world.
The Trollenberg Terror
The Trollenberg Terror (US title The Crawling Eye) is a 1958 British sci-fi horror film by Quentin Lawrence and Jimmy Sangster, adapted from a lost 1956 ITV serial, about one-eyed tentacled aliens in a radioactive Swiss mountain cloud.
The War of the Worlds (1953 film)
The War of the Worlds (1953) is a Paramount science fiction film directed by Byron Haskin and produced by George Pal, adapting H. G. Wells's 1898 novel to Cold War-era California with Gene Barry and Ann Robinson; it won the Oscar for Best Special Effects.
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm is a 1962 MGM fantasy-biography film produced by George Pal, the first dramatic story film shot in 3-strip Cinerama, starring Laurence Harvey and Karlheinz Böhm, winner of the Best Color Costume Design Oscar.
The X from Outer Space (宇宙大怪獣ギララ)
The X from Outer Space (宇宙大怪獣ギララ, Uchu Daikaiju Girara) is Shochiku's 1967 kaiju film directed by Kazui Nihonmatsu, in which a Mars-mission spore grows into the energy-absorbing monster Guilala, defeated with Guilalanium.
Them!
Them! is a 1954 Warner Bros. black-and-white science fiction horror film directed by Gordon Douglas, starring James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, and James Arness, about giant ants mutated by atomic testing in New Mexico; the original 'big bug' movie of the atomic age.
Things to Come
Things to Come (1936) is a British science fiction film directed by William Cameron Menzies, produced by Alexander Korda, and written by H.G. Wells from his novel The Shape of Things to Come, depicting war, plague, and a 2036 utopia.
This Island Earth
This Island Earth (1955) is a Universal-International Technicolor science fiction film directed by Joseph Newman, based on Raymond F. Jones's novel, starring Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, and Rex Reason, later featured in MST3K: The Movie.
Village of the Damned (1960 film)
Village of the Damned (1960) is Wolf Rilla's British MGM sci-fi horror adapting John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos: a village blackout, telepathic blonde children, George Sanders, a 1964 sequel, and Carpenter's 1995 remake.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961 film)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961 film), Irwin Allen's Fox sci-fi adventure starring Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, and Peter Lorre, in which the Seaview fires a nuclear missile at a burning Van Allen belt; it spawned the 1964 ABC TV series.
Westworld (film)
Westworld (1973) is Michael Crichton's MGM science fiction Western about a robot theme park, starring Yul Brynner as the Gunslinger; the first feature film to use computer-processed imagery.
When Worlds Collide (1951 film)
When Worlds Collide is a 1951 Paramount science fiction film directed by Rudolph Maté and produced by George Pal, about a rocket built to carry survivors away from doomed Earth.
X the Unknown
X the Unknown is a 1956 Hammer black-and-white science fiction horror film directed by Leslie Norman, written by Jimmy Sangster, starring Dean Jagger as Dr Adam Royston, about a radioactive blob from a Scottish moor fissure.
X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes
X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963), also released as The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, is a Roger Corman science fiction horror film starring Ray Milland as Dr. James Xavier, whose eye drops grant X-ray vision, and winner of the Silver Spaceship at the Trieste science fiction festival.