Science Fiction
Science fiction as a genre of film making has been an element of the cinema experience since the earliest days of the motion picture industry. These films have explored a great range of unique topics, including many that cannot be readily presented in other genre. Science fiction films have been used to explore sensitive social and political issues, while often providing an entertaining story for the more casual viewer. Today, science fiction films are in the forefront of new special effects technology, and the audience has become accustomed to displays of realistic aliens, space battles, energy weapons, faster than light travel, and distant worlds.
This genre has produced many memorable films, as well as a number that can be considered mediocre or even among the worst examples of film production. It took many decades, and the efforts of talented teams of film producers, for the science fiction film genre to be taken seriously as an art form by many critics. The very best of these films may be scrolled below, or for Sci-Fi TV Series, select the green 'Televison Shows' heading on left, and then the 'TV Sci-Fi' option.
Jurassic Park (1993)
8.1/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Peck, Richard Attenborough
Steven Spielberg's brontosaurus-sized blockbuster, based on Michael Crichton's best-seller, follows scientists Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Ellie Sattler (... Read more
Body Snatchers (1993)
5.9/10
Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Gabrielle Anwar, Meg Tilly, Forest Whitaker
An update of the science-fiction classic "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" made twice before (1956 and 1978). Addressing the universal personal and pol... Read more
Demolition Man (1993)
6.6/10
Director: Marco Brambilla
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes, Sylvester Stallone, Nigel Hawthorne
Muscleman Sly is back as the titular Demo Man, a 20th century cop cryogenically frozen, resuscitated and crazy fit to nab baaad guy Wesley Snipes in 2... Read more
Fire in the Sky (1993)
6.5/10
Director: Robert Lieberman
Starring: D B Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer
UFO buffs should get a lift out of this dramatization of the alleged abduction of Travis Walton - allegedly based on fact. Contains a genuinely freaky... Read more
X-Men: Volume 1, Episodes 9-16 (1992)
7.4/10
Director: Various
In a world that hates and fears them, several mutants (humans who are born with unique powers and abilities) have banded together to fight the hatred,... Read more
X-Men: Volume 1, Episodes 1-8 (1992)
7.4/10
Director: Various
A fondly remembered treatment of Marvel's classic super-hero team. This series from the early 1990s brought cutting-edge animation and design to Satur... Read more
Intruders (1992)
6.5/10
Director: Dan Curtis
Starring: Richard Crenna, Mare Winningham, Susan Blakely, Ben Vereen
Women all over America are living through diabolical nightmares as, time and again, they share in the same hideous dream. Despite the fact that none o... Read more
Universal Soldier (1992)
6/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Ally Walker, Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme
Two titans of movie muscledom, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren, team up in this sci-fi actioner. Killed while serving in Vietnam, they're bro... Read more
Alien 3 (Blu-Ray) (1992)
7.7/10
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dance, Charles S Dutton, Lance Henriksen
INCLUDES BOTH THEATRICAL CUT AND ASSEMBLY CUT. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the only survivor when she crash lands on Fiorina 161, a bleak wa... Read more
Alien 3 (1992)
7/10
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dance, Charles S Dutton, Lance Henriksen
This third installment in the hit series finds Sigourney Weaver's weary Ripley landing on a dark prison planet inhabited by male criminals, killers an... Read more