Subgenre Sampler
Science Fiction > Science Slip: 53 Films to Buy & Rent
- Crazies, The (1975)
- Dir. George Romero
Feat. Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones
- Underrated low–budgeter about germ warfare, a personal favourite of Romero's. Fast–paced editing creates some real excitement.
- Westworld (1973)
- Dir. Michael Crichton
Feat. Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin
- A theme–park where one experiences violent fantasies in perfect safety gradually goes haywire. Inspired idea would strike the big time for…
- Andromeda Strain, The (1971)
- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson…
- Four experts undergo a rigid sterilisation program to identify a deadly virus that has wiped out a small town. Fascinating science parable adapted…
- Omega Man (1971)
- Dir. Boris Sagal
Feat. Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash
- Charlton Heston is the last man on earth in this passable screen version of Richard Matheson's classic novel 'I am Legend'.
- Sorcerers, The (1967)
- Dir. Michael Reeves
Feat. Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey, Ian Ogilvy…
- An aging couple conduct secret experiments in vicarious mind–control, living out perverse scenarios through young and unwitting victims.…
- Projected Man, The (1966)
- Dir. Ian Curteis
Feat. Bryant Halliday
- Laboratory misadventure yarn derived in part from THE FLY: a researcher tests his laser device on himself and regrets it.
- Human Vapour, The (1964)
- Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Tatsuya Mihashi, Kaoru Yachigusa, Yoshio Tsuchiya
- After an awry experiment, a benign librarian is able to spontaneously vapourize and get away with robbery, blackmail and murder in metropolitan…
- 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…
- X - The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Ray Milland, Don Rickles, John Hoyt…
- Furrow–browed scientist Ray Milland discovers the ability to see through matters, and takes advantage with card games and ladies etc., but…
- Amazing Transparent Man, The (1960)
- Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman
- Underrated, though still fairly tacky mad–scientist caper in which Douglas Kennedy turns a convict invisible so he can steal uranium for…