Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Science Fiction: 1540 Films to Rent
Last Man on Earth, The (1964)
- Dir. Sidney Salkow
Feat. Vincent Price
- Rough but effective version of Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend" (also the basis for OMEGA MAN), Price playing the last living survivor of the human…
Misadventures of Merlin Jones, The (1964)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames
- Disney live–actioner about a brainy freshman (Kirk) who causes a stir on campus when he goes to college, with the help of a mind–reading…
Monstrosity (The Atomic Brain) (1964)
- Dir. Joseph V. Mascelli
Feat. Frank Gerstle
- An elderly woman pays a mad scientist to create a new body for her in his fiendish laboratory, by somehow utilising nuclear power and three beautiful…
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
- Dir. Byron Haskin
Feat. Paul Mantee, Adam West, Victor Lundin
- Unusually accurate pre–space age adventure chronicles the marooning of an American astronaut on inhospitable Mars, sometime before mankind…
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
- Dir. Nicholas Webster
Feat. Pia Zadora
- Kidnapping Santa because their children have become obsessed with Christmas due to TV broadcasts from Earth, the Martians get more than they bargain…
Satan Bug, The (1964)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Alistair Maclean, Richard Basehart
- Set in a hushed desert landscape of secret government laboratories and ominous rock–formations, this Cold War paranoia–thriller…
Star Trek - Season 1 (TV Series) (1964)
- Feat. Jeffrey Hunter, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy…
- The original Star Trek series was a milestone in television – as one of the best sci–fi conceptions and as the start of a remarkable…
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) (1964)
- Feat. Richard Basehart, David Hedison
- A spin–off of Irwin Allen's 1961 underwater adventure movie about top–secret team sent below waters to battle enemies of…
Astro Boy (TV Series) (1963-1980)
- Dir. Noboro Ishiguro
- The Japanese–animated robot boy struts his stuff in this historic series, performing Superman–style heroic deeds and dealing with a bit…
Damned, The (These Are The Damned) (1963)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors…
- Dir. Joseph Losey’s bleak but brilliant movie about a breed of radioactive children groomed to withstand a nuclear apocalypse is one of best…