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Excuse the representative banner title. We've strayed outside the boundaries of our initial 1950s + 60s science-fiction / fantasy / creature-feature Blu-ray and 4K UHD entries - expanding to include many new titles that deserve acknowledgment - a few horror. We've only briefly ventured outside the date range. The appeal remains inherent from the innocence of childhood - overflowing with campy nostalgia - to inspiring imaginative future-esque adventures or mythical fantasies recognized by inventive, alluring titles, frequently set in isolated islands, outer space, distant planets or quaint, small towns steeped in tradition.
'Creatures' remain a strong focus of many of the chosen films - preferably of the Ray Harryhausen, claymation, variety - they are often dinosaur or dinosaur-like, sometime alien, fable-deviations, or accidentally man-made (enter wayward scientists or mad doctors etc.). There can be human-hybrids of animals (from a fly to an alligator). Automatons are appealing; robots utilized as potentially dangerous and unreadable tertiary characters - powerful and inscrutable. Both Universal and Japanese monsters are mainstays.
We've added some 'Republic Serials' and avoided comedy/satire (Jerry Lewis films Visit to a Small Planet and The Nutty Professor or Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine and The 10th Victim) and intentionally neglected movies that are primarily occult and horror - notably Gothic period films, although we have included a few very worthy Hammer Studio titles.
Our rational is indefensibly thin, excluding Frankenheimer's socially-probing and deep Seconds, the Thunderbirds series with their delightful Supermarionation process. Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey deserves it's own category. Alain Resnais' Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968) is a great film but doesn't fit-in here. What about Hitchcock's The Birds? Science-fiction? creature feature? Committee says 'yes' - it's added.
Some of the most
desirable titles are still not
available on
Blu-ray;
The Day of the Triffids,
We remain flexible in our selections and look forward to updating the list with more titles as they are upgraded to the Blu-ray format. Please tell us your preference! P.S. Thanks again to Gregory!
The listing is in alphabetical order (click review buttons to also see comparisons where applicable): |
Recent Additions:
Unknown World (1951) |
Fire Maidens of Outer Space (1956) |
Devil Girl From Mars (1954) |
The Gamma People (1956) |
The Night the World Exploded (1957) |
The 27th Day (1957) |
Crack in the World (1965) |
The Terrornauts (1967) |
Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954) |
Circus of Horrors (1960)(4K UHD) |
Burn, Witch, Burn (1962) |
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In Alphabetical Order:
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) |
4D Man (1959) |
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) |
The 27th Day (1957) |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) |
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) |
The Abominable Snowman (1957) |
The Alligator People (1959) |
The Amazing Transparent Man (1960) |
The Angry Red Planet (1959) |
The Astro-Zombies (1968) |
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The Bubble (1966) |
Burn, Witch, Burn (1962) |
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959) |
Circus of Horrors (1960)(4K UHD) |
The Colossus of New York (1958) |
Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1953) |
Conquest of Space (1955) |
Crack in the World (1965) |
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) |
Cult of the Cobra (1955) |
Cyborg 2087 (1966) |
The Cyclops (1957) |
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Five (1951) |
The Flesh Eaters (1964) |
The Fly (1958) |
Flying Disc Man From Mars (1950) |
Forbidden Planet (1956) |
From Hell It Came (1957) |
The Gamma People (1956) |
The Giant Behemoth (1959) |
The Giant Claw (1957) |
Giant From the Unknown (1958) |
The Giant Gila Monster (1959) |
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I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958) |
Ikarie XB 1 (1963) |
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) |
Invaders From Mars (1953) (4K UHD) |
Invasion (1965) |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) (4K UHD) |
Invention for Destruction (1958) |
Invisible Invaders (1959) |
The Invisible Man Appears (1949) / The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly (1957) |
The Invisible Monster (1950) |
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Island of Terror (1966) |
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) |
It Came from Outer Space (1953) |
It Came from Outer Space (1953) (4K UHD) |
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) |
Jason and the Argonauts (1963) |
Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955) |
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) |
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969) |
Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962) |
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The Killer Shrews (1959) |
King Kong Escapes (1967) |
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) |
Konga (1961) |
The Land Unknown (1957) |
The Last Man on Earth (1964) |
The Leech Woman (1960) |
The Lost World (1960) |
The Magnetic Monster (1953) |
The Man from Planet X (1951) |
The Manster (1962) |
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Mysterious Island (1961) |
The Neanderthal Man (1953) |
Night of the Big Heat (1967) |
Night of the Demon (1957) |
The Night the World Exploded (1957) |
One Million Years B.C. (1966) |
The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955) |
The Phantom Planet (1961) |
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) |
Planet of Apes (1968) |
Planet of the Vampires (1965) |
Project X (1968) |
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The Projected Man (1966) |
Quatermass and the Pit (TV Series) (1958) |
Quatermass and the Pit (1967) |
Quatermass 2 (1957) |
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) |
Queen of Blood (1966) |
Queen of Outer Space (1958) |
Red Planet Mars (1952) |
The Reptile (1966) |
Reptilicus (1962) (4K UHD) |
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The Time Machine (1960) |
The Time Travelers (1964) |
The Time Tunnel (1966-67) |
The Tingler (1959) |
Tobor the Great (1954) |
Torment (1960) |
Unearthly Stranger (1963) |
The Unknown Terror (1957) |
Unknown World (1951) |
The Valley of Gwangi (1969) |
Village of the Damned (1958) |
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) |
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War-Gods of the Deep (1965) |
War of the Colossal Beast (1958) |
The War of the Worlds (1953) (4K UHD) |
Warning From Space (1956) |
The Wasp Woman (1959) |
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) |
When Worlds Collide (1951) |
World Without End (1956) |
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) |
X The Unknown (1956) |
Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967) |
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Posters of desirable 'Nostalgic Science Fiction' films
that are NOT on Blu-ray yet.
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Recommended Science Fiction Film poster Books (CLICK COVERS or TITLES for more information)
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Film Posters of the 60s: The Essential Movies of the
Decade : From the Reel Poster Gallery Collection by Tony Nourmand, Reel Poster Gallery, Graham Marsh |
Science Fiction Poster Art by Tony Nourmand, Graham Marsh |
Science Fiction and Horror Movie Posters in
Full Color by Alan Adler |
Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy Movie Posters &
Lobby Cards by Forrest J. Ackerman, Robert Brosch |
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