Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Science Fiction: 1535 Films to Rent
- How William Shatner Changed the World (2005)
- Dir. Julian Jones
Feat. William Shatner
- In his goofy middle age, William Shatner hosts this irreverent yet informational documentary on the continuing influence of STAR TREK’s fictional…
- Invasion (TV Series) (2005-2006)
- Feat. William Fichtner, Eddie Cibrian
- Creeping sci–fi series concerning a small–town family who find their town bizarrely quarantined after a mysterious hurricane. Like a…
- Island, The (2005)
- Dir. Michael Bay
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi…
- Surprisingly effective dystopian actioner proposes a blandly synthetic future world, in which humans inhabit cities to protect themselves from the…
- Karas - The Prophecy / The Revelation (2005)
- Dir. Kei'ichi Sato
- Large–scale, CG rendered anime concerns the battle for Tokyo between two guardian angels who weld various powers of the occult. Two volumes:…
- King Kong: Peter Jackson Production Diaries (2005)
- Presenting a close–to–the–ground account of the forging of Peter Jackson's KING KONG (2005), this shows the filming with all its…
- Locusts - Day of Destruction (2005)
- Dir. David Jackson
Feat. Lucy Lawless, John Heard
- Cheese–dipped thriller set in the good ol' US of A, where a swarm of pissed off bio–engineered locusts run riot across the countryside…
- Medium (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber
- Moderately–spooky paranormal soap–opera with Patricia Arquette playing a psychic attached to the DA's office in Phoenix, Arizona, who…
- Point Pleasant (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Elisabeth Harnois, Grant Show
- Short–lived, mildly cultish series may interest BUFFY fans as a brief alternative: it concerns a mysterious girl who washes up on the shoreline…
- Puzzlehead (2005)
- Dir. James Bai
Feat. Stephen Galaida, Robbie Shapiro
- Grungy sci–fi set in a desolate future in which a lonely scientist creates a self–aware android and unwittingly a love rival. Shot on a…
- Robots (2005)
- Dir. Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
- Set in a future world inhabited totally by robot creatures, this sparky animation from the creators of ICE AGE ratchets through its thriller plot…