SciFi
The Big O (1999) NeoDB TMDB Bangumi Douban
THE ビッグオー Season 1 part of TV Series: The Big O
director: Kazuyoshi Katayama / Akira Yoshimura actor: Mitsuru Miyamoto / Akiko Yajima
Forty years ago, the minds of Paradigm City's inhabitants were wiped clean of all recollections of the past. Now, ruled by a powerful corporation and cut off from the rest of the world by desolate wastelands, Paradigm has become a virtual police state where Negotiators like Roger Smith keep the wheels of progress, commerce, and society turning.
Communion (1989) IMDb WikiData
Communion
director: Philippe Mora actor: Christopher Walken / Lindsay Crouse
other title: Die Besucher
A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005) IMDb TMDB WikiData
ナイスの森〜The First Contact〜
other title: Funky Forest - The First Contact / Funky Forest : The First Contact
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) IMDb TMDB
Earth Girls Are Easy
director: Julien Temple actor: Geena Davis / Jeff Goldblum
other title: Le ragazze della Terra sono facili / Zebo, der dritte aus der Sternenmitte
In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into her swimming pool. Once the furry beings are shaved at her girlfriend's salon, the women discover three handsome men underneath. After absorbing the native culture via television, the spacemen are ready to hit the dating scene in 1980s Los Angeles.
The Monster That Challenged the World (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Monster That Challenged the World
director: Arnold Laven actor: Tim Holt / Audrey Dalton
other title: Il mostro che sfidò il mondo / O Monstro Que Desafiou o Mundo
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
April 6, 2026 watched
Has effects, characters and monsters not as terrible as the usual 1950s fare.

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
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Starship Invasions (1977) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Starship Invasions
director: Ed Hunt actor: 罗伯特·沃恩 / 克里斯托弗·李
other title: Invasion der Raumschiffe / L'Invasion des soucoupes volantes
Captain Rameses and his Legion of the Winged Serpent brigade are out to claim Earth for their dying race. Out to save Earth is an alien guard patrol located in the Bermuda Triangle, the League of Races. LOR leaders warn Rameses that he's breaking galactic treaty rules. The alien villain responds by launching an invasion which telepathically drives Earthlings to suicide. The LOR implore UFO expert Professor Duncan to help them. Eventually, the two alien forces battle. Will the Earth be saved?
Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) IMDb NeoDB TMDB WikiData
Tammy and the T-Rex
director: Stewart Raffill actor: Denise Richards / Paul Walker
other title: Tammy e il T-Rex / Teenage T-Rex: Der Menschen-Dinosaurier
An evil scientist implants the brain of a murdered high school student into an animatronic Tyrannosaurus, who later wreaks vengeance on the bullies who killed him, and is reunited with his sweetheart.
Critters 4 (1992) IMDb WikiData
Critters 4
director: Rupert Harvey actor: Don Keith Opper / Paul Whitthorne
other title: Critters - Seres do Espaço 4 / Critters 4 - Das große Fressen geht weiter
A super strain of genetically engineered mutants are designed to take over the universe, hungry to conquer the galaxy, with an appetite for mankind.
March 30, 2026 watched
Decent first act followed by... meh. Critters films need more critters!

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon
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Silent Rage (1982) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Silent Rage
director: Michael Miller actor: Chuck Norris / Ron Silver
other title: Terrore in città / Raiva Silenciosa
A mentally ill man in a small Texas town goes on a killing rampage and is fatally wounded by police. When doctors use an experimental serum to bring him back to life, the killer develops superhuman strength and the town sheriff must pursue him.
March 29, 2026 watched
A sub-Carpenteresque scifi-horror, not great but Chuck does manage to emote and is fully manscaped. Not enough martial arts.

Watched in #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon.
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Oblivion (1994) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Oblivion
director: Sam Irvin actor: Richard Joseph Paul / Jackie Swanson
other title: Alien Desperados / El olvido
On another planet which resembles the Old West, a die-hard pacifist is forced to re-examine his ways after an evil alien bandit and his gang murder his estranged sheriff father, take over his home town, and threaten his friends.
40 Acres (2025) IMDb WikiData
40 Acres
director: R.T. Thorne actor: Danielle Deadwyler / Kataem O'Connor
Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm, as they make one last stand against a vicious militia hell-bent on taking their 40 Acres.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData Melon Log
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
7.5 (13 ratings) director: Garth Jennings actor: Martin Freeman / Yasiin Bey
other title: Guida galattica per autostoppisti / Håndbog for vakse Galakseblaffere
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Save the Green Planet! (2003) NeoDB WikiData ReviewDB IMDb TMDB Douban
지구를 지켜라!
director: Jang Joon-hwan actor: Shin Ha-kyun / Baek Yoon-sik
other title: Save the Green Planet / Save The Green Planet
A young man believes that his country's leaders are actually toxic reptilian aliens sent down to launch a takeover of his beloved Earth. So he decides to abduct them and force the truth out on camera in his basement that doubles as a film studio and torture chamber.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026) ReviewDB NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
6.0 (5 ratings) director: Gore Verbinski actor: Sam Rockwell / Juno Temple
other title: Boa Sorte, Diverte-te, Não Morras / Buena suerte, pásalo bien, no mueras
A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
FantastiCozzi (2016) TMDB IMDb WikiData
FantastiCozzi
director: Felipe M. Guerra actor: Luigi Cozzi / Caroline Munro
A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Looker (1981) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Looker
director: Michael Crichton actor: Albert Finney / James Coburn
other title: Troppo belle per vivere / Kein Mord von der Stange
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
Dreamscape (1984) IMDb NeoDB WikiData TMDB
Dreamscape
director: Joseph Ruben actor: Dennis Quaid / Max von Sydow
other title: Dreamscape: fuga nell'incubo / A Morte nos Sonhos
In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex Gardner to enter their dreams.
Ghost in the Shell (1995) Bangumi NeoDB IMDb WikiData o00o garage Douban TMDB
GHOST IN THE SHELL
8.5 (58 ratings) director: Mamoru Oshii actor: Atsuko Tanaka / Akio Otsuka
other title: Ghost in the Shell: Cidade Assombrada / Ghost in The Shell
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.
Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Dr. Who and the Daleks
director: Gordon Flemyng actor: Peter Cushing / Roy Castle
other title: Dr. Who: Krig på Skaro / Dr. Who und die Daleks
Scientist Doctor Who accidentally activates his new invention, the Tardis, a time machine disguised as a police telephone box. Who, his two granddaughters Barbara and Susan, and Barbara's boyfriend Ian are transported through time and space to the planet Skaro, where a peaceful race of Thals are under threat of nuclear attack from the planet's other inhabitants: the robotic mutant Daleks.