Originally begun in
The Couch Potato under another name, this is a list of mixed science-fiction, fantasy and horror movies I intend to review at some point, arranged in alphabetical order but they will not be reviewed as per this list. I will be picking and choosing from it as the urge takes me. The exception to this will be (probably) any series like
Lord of the Rings or
The Matrix, where one movie generally leads into the next. In those cases I will endeavour to review all the movies in the series before moving on to another.
This is not meant to be an exhaustive (though quite exhausting!) list of sci-fi/horror/fantasy movies by any means. I'm sure there are many I have left out, and many I will not be considering. This list comprises either movies I consider important to the genre, or ones that I have just really enjoyed. If you have a movie you’d like me to review that is not here, get in touch with me and if I’ve seen it I may include it, or if you make a good enough case for me watching it then it may get added to the list. Obviously I can’t promise anything here, neither that it will be chosen nor when, if it is chosen, it will be reviewed.
The criteria for inclusion here are science-fiction (obviously!), fantasy (to include the likes of sword-and-sorcery, mythological or fairytales - your basic
Lord of the Rings, Legend, Avatar, Conan sort of thing) or horror, but with a fantasy or sci-fi element. The likes of
Alien, Event Horizon, vampire movies and so forth - I don’t generally watch or have any interest in psychological horror, gory or slasher movies or the like. Anyway, my decision will be final: if I think it merits inclusion it will go in, if not it won’t.
Note: I’m going more for the serious, or at least taking seriously, movie here, so there won’t be much, if any, room for parodies, rip-offs or just stupid or supposedly funny movies like for instance Mars Attacks! or Vampires Suck! Yeah. Don’t suggest movies like that, they’ll just be rejected.
MOVIE LIST
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: Odyssey II
30 Days of night
Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Alien Resurrection
Alien vs Predator
Alien Nation
Angel Heart
Avatar
Back to the Future
Back to the Future II
Back to the Future III
Blade Runner
Batman
Batman Begins
Batman Forever
Batman Returns
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Brazil
Children of Men
Clash of the Titans (Original)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Destroyer
The Cold Equations
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Dark City
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Day of the Triffids
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Original)
Devil’s Advocate
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Dragonslayer
Edward Scissorhands
Enemy Mine
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
Event Horizon
Excalibur
Fahrenheit 451
Fantastic Voyage
The Fifth Element
Flight of the Navigator
Forbidden Planet
The Forsaken
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Frequently Asked Questions About Time-Travel
Fright Night (Original)
From Dusk till Dawn
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Highlander
Highlander II
Highlander III
Highlander IV
Highlander V
The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Inception
Interview with the Vampire
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Original)
Jason and the Argonauts
Judge Dredd (Original)
Judge Dredd (2012 remake)
Jumper
Jurassic Park (Only the original one)
Labyrinth
Ladyhawke
The Last Starfighter
Lawnmower Man
Legend
Let the right one in (Original)
Logan’s Run
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lost Boys
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
Metropolis
The Monster Club
Monsters Inc.
The Nightmare before Christmas
Planet of the Apes (Original)
Planet of the Apes (Remake)
Predator
The Princess Bride
Queen of the Damned
The Quatermass Xperiment
Quatermass II
Quatermass and the Pit
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Robocop (Original)
The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad
Silent Running
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Sleepy Hollow
Snow White: A Tale of Terror
Soylent Green
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Unknown Country
Star Trek VII: Generations
Star Trek VIII: Insurrection
Star Trek IX: First Contact
Star Trek X: Nemesis
Star Trek XI: Star Trek (2009 reboot)
Star Trek XII: Star Trek: Into Darkness
(Note: I know the two “new” Star Trek movies are not considered part of the original canon, and so are not really eleven and twelve but in fact one and two, but that’s confusing so I, with typical Trollheart stubbornness and refusal to face facts, am labelling them so.
Starman
Star Wars Episode VI: A New Hope (Originally just titled Star Wars)
Star Wars Episode VII: The Empires Strikes Back
Star Wars Episode VIII: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Terminator
Terminator II: Judgement Day
Terminator III: Rise of the Machines
Terminator Salvation
This island Earth
Time Bandits
The Time Machine (Original)
Total Recall
V for Vendetta
John Carpenter’s Vampires
Vampires II: Los Muertos
The War of the Worlds (Original)
Watchmen
Westworld
White Dwarf