SciFi
Crash and Burn (1990) WikiData TMDB IMDb
Crash and Burn
director: Charles Band actor: Paul Ganus / Megan Ward
other title: Distruzione totale / Kampf der Roboter
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability". When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man must help the rest of the station survive through the incoming "thermal storm".
Futuristic Google Books Goodreads Open Library
author: Mark Voger / Bill Gaines (Illustrator) publishing house: TwoMorrows Publishing 2025 - 10
Blast off to the Space Age, when the future was always bright! Futuristic is a full-color hardcover about a time of limitless possibilities... and anxieties. It covers all aspects of 1950s and '60s pop culture from the "duck and cover" era of the Cold War, the Space Race, the UFO Craze, and the 1969 moon landing. Read about the movies (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Invasion of the Body Snatchers), TV shows (Tom Corbett: Space Cadet, The Jetsons), and collectibles (robots, rockets, comic books, TV tie-ins) that had us looking to the stars. Also featured are interviews with such comic book creators as William Gaines, Joe Orlando, Julius Schwartz, Robert Kanigher, Ross Andru, Mike Esposito, and Larry Lieber about their sci-fi work, plus recollections from sci-fi movie stars (Kevin McCarthy, Peter Graves, Linda Harrison), TV cast members (from shows including Lost in Space, Star Trek, and The Invaders), and others. A graphically immersive experience written and designed by Mark Voger (Monster Mash, Zowie!), Futuristic is a time trip to a future that never exactly came to pass, but lives on vividly in our imaginations!
Past Perfect (1996) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Past Perfect
director: Jonathan Heap actor: Eric Roberts / Laurie Holden
other title: Todesschwadron aus der Zukunft
In this Seattle-set police thriller, a police detective tries to bring a band of adolescent arms dealers to justice. He manages to capture one, but he is under-age and cannot be prosecuted as an adult. Meanwhile someone is quietly slaughtering the youth's gang mates, leaving the police detective to try to save him from the same fate.
Alternative 3 (1977) TMDB IMDb
Alternative 3
director: Christopher Miles actor: Tim Brinton / Gregory Munroe
Purporting to be an investigation into the UK's contemporary "brain drain", Alternative 3 uncovered a plan to make the Moon and Mars habitable in the event of climate change and a terminal environmental catastrophe on Earth.
Runaway (1984) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Runaway
director: Michael Crichton actor: Tom Selleck / Cynthia Rhodes
other title: Døden løber løbsk / Runaway - Spinnen des Todes
In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.
In the Year 2889 (1969) WikiData IMDb TMDB
In the Year 2889
director: Larry Buchanan actor: Paul Petersen / Quinn O'Hara
other title: En el año 2889
The last seven survivors of a nuclear war barricade themselves against the outside world. Beyond a dense mist, other survivors, radiated and mutant, grow hungry.
June 15, 2026 watched
Dull, absurd but not the fun kind, and never even comes close to the year 1989, let alone 2889.

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
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The Giant Claw (1957) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Giant Claw
director: Fred F. Sears actor: Jeff Morrow / Mara Corday
other title: Il mostro dei cieli / O Ataque Vem do Polo
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.
The Quatermass Conclusion (1979) IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Quatermass Conclusion
director: Piers Haggard actor: John Mills / Barbara Kellerman
other title: Quatermass Conclusion - La Terra esplode / Quatermass Conclusion: La Terra esplode
Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.
June 9, 2026 watched
I just don't think I ever gave a toss about the characters, the plot or the outcome.

Watched in #MondayActionMovie on Mastodon.
Quatermass UK 1970s SciFi
Class of 1999 II: The Substitute (1994) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Class of 1999 II: The Substitute
other title: Classe 1999 II - Il supplente / Die Klasse von 1999 Teil 2
In the original movie, the cyborg-teachers were all destroyed. Well that's what we thought, but there's one more rogue military robot out there determined to clean up the education system.
Class of 1999 (1990) IMDb TMDB WikiData
Class of 1999
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Bradley Gregg / Traci Lind
other title: Classe 1999 / Curso de 1999
The time is in the future and the youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free-fire zones", into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford, the head of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest provides "tactical education units". These are amazingly human-like androids that have been programmed to teach and are supplied with devastatingly effective solutions to discipline problems. So when the violent, out-of-control students of Kennedy High report for class tomorrow, they're going to get a real education... in staying alive!
Seedpeople (1992) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Seedpeople
director: Peter Manoogian actor: Sam Hennings / Andrea Roth
other title: Seedpeople: Alla Radice del Male / Sway
The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on.
June 1, 2026 watched
Low quality clone of Invasion of the Body Snatchers set in 90s Denim Valley, brought to you by Charles Band & Full Moon Pictures.

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
Horror FullMoon 1990s Monsterdon SciFi
Planet of the Vampires (1965) IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
Terrore nello spazio
director: Mario Bava actor: Barry Sullivan / Norma Bengell
other title: Terrore nello spazio / Planet der Vampire
After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.
June 1, 2026 watched
Spooky & gorgeous. No, not me; the film, silly!

And I can see why people say it was an influence on Alien (1979).

Watched in the #ReMonsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
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Dark Matter Season 2 (2016) NeoDB Douban TMDB
Dark Matter Season 2 part of TV Series: Dark Matter
In Season 2, the crew of the Raza becomes embroiled in an intergalactic conspiracy, seeking a mysterious device that may hold the key to victory in a looming all-out corporate war. In the aftermath of the betrayal of one of their own, they are split up — some imprisoned, others shuttled off to begin a new life. Fate, new allies and a larger enemy propels them to a new adventure.
Shocking Dark (1989) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Terminator 2
other title: Terminator 2 - Shocking dark / Contaminator
In a polluted future Venice researchers work to improve the situation. One day, unknown forces start killing them. A team of soldiers and a couple of civilians is sent to investigate. Soon, they encounter strange murderous creatures.
April 28, 2026 watched
Blatant Aliens ripoff Shocking Dark is shockingly awful. I'm shocked!!!

Made laughably bearable by watching it in the #MondayActionMovie watch party on Mastodon. Thanks, you guys!
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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.
Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005) IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
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.