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The Lillingtons

The result was Death By Television, an album that took sci-fi movie-themed songs such as "War Of The Worlds" and "Invasion Of The Saucermen" and combined them with tracks that made references to other retro themes, such as "X-Ray Specs."


Cyborg Soldier

Cyborg Soldier is a science fiction film released on October 7, 2008, directed by John Stead, and starring Rich Franklin, Tiffani Thiessen, and Bruce Greenwood.

DBCult Film Institute

The study and the interest of the organization is focused primarily on genre film productions, especially Horror film, Science Fiction film, Action film, Adventure film, Comedy film, Crime film, Mondo film, Drama film, Fantasy film, Mystery film, Noir film, Peplum or Sword-and-sandal film, Sexy, Spy film, Thriller film, War film, Western film, and related subgenres.

Disco Volante

The vocal effect in this song (at 4:48) is very similar to the voice of Alpha 60 in Jean-Luc Godard's sci-fi film noir Alphaville, using a mechanical voice box to create the effect.

Ho-Ag

Known for melding the creaky musical worlds of 50s and 60s sci-fi films, Waitsian dissonant underworld, and fast-paced math-punk, Ho-Ag has adapted through several line-up changes, guest collaborations, experimental one-off shows, and infrequent Devo cover sets to evolve into a consistently unpredictable band that has earned them comparisons to acts like Six Finger Satellite, The Dismemberment Plan, Brainiac and The Melvins.

Humanoids from the Deep

Humanoids from the Deep (also known as Monster in Europe) is a 1980 American science fiction monster movie, starring Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, and Vic Morrow.

It! The Terror from Beyond Space

The Terror from Beyond Space is an independently made 1958 black and white science fiction film that was produced by Robert Kent, directed by Edward L. Cahn, and released by United Artists.

Killbot

In the science fiction slasher film Chopping Mall security guard robots are transformed into killbots when a rooftop computer is hit by lightning.

Killer Mountain

This sci-fi film tells the story of mountain climbers sent to rescue a missing expedition from a forbidden mountain only to discover the legendary Shangri-La and the hungry creature protecting it, the Druk.

Langjökull

In popular culture, the glacier may be best known as the place where the pieces of the nuclear-blasted Iron Giant fall in the 1999 animated science fiction film, The Iron Giant, before it reassembles itself in the final scene of the movie.

Left Hand of Gemini

Left Hand of Gemini is a 1972 American science fiction film starring Ian McShane, Ursula Thiess and Richard Egan.

Lost City Raiders

Lost City Raiders is a 2008 made-for-television science fiction film written and directed by Jean de Segonzac.

Masters of Venus

Masters of Venus is a 1962 British science fiction children's serial film directed by Ernest Morris and starring Norman Wooland, Mandy Harper and Robin Stewart.

One-Eyed Monster

One-Eyed Monster is a 2008 sci-fi/horror comedy film directed by Adam Fields about the cast and crew of an adult film having an encounter with a different kind of monster while filming in the Northern California mountains.

Phenytoin

In the 2013 science fiction film Elysium, the protagonist (played by Matt Damon) takes Miporol, a fictional brand name for diphenylhydantoin, after having been exposed to a lethal dose of radiation.

Snowpiercer

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Stranger from Venus

Stranger from Venus (also known as Immediate Disaster and The Venusian) is a 1954 science fiction film directed by Burt Balaban and starring Patricia Neal and Helmut Dantine.

The Brain Leeches

The Brain Leeches is a 1977 sci-fi film directed by Fred Olen Ray and starring Paul Jones, Marcia Scott & Ray Starr.

The Treasure Planet

The Treasure Planet (original: Planetata na sakrovishtata) is a 1982 Bulgarian animated science fiction film directed by Rumen Petkov and produced by Boyana Film.

The Wesley's Mysterious File

The Wesley's Mysterious File (衛斯理藍血人) is a 2002 Hong Kong science fiction film directed by Andrew Lau starring Andy Lau, Rosamund Kwan and Shu Qi.

VMFA-314

In the 1996 science fiction film Independence Day, Will Smith plays a U.S. Marine Corps pilot from VMFA-314, Captain Steven Hiller, stationed at MCAS El Toro.

Xero Error

Xero Error also known as Levity - Xero Error Minus1 is a computer generated science fiction film created and directed by Ashraf Ghori.


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Angry Red Planet

The Angry Red Planet, a 1959 science fiction film directed by Ib Melchior and produced by Sidney W. Pink.

Anne-Marie Martin

Prior to this she appeared in H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come, a low-budget science fiction film that capitalized on the popularity of Buck Rogers (Martin was made up to resemble Erin Gray's Buck Rogers character, Wilma Deering).

Audio signal processing

overdrive effects such as the use of a fuzz box can be used to produce distorted sounds, such as for imitating robotic voices or to simulate distorted radiotelephone traffic (e.g., the radio chatter between starfighter pilots in the science fiction film Star Wars).

Ben Dunn

In 2006, Dunn worked as an animator for the science-fiction film "A Scanner Darkly."

Beware! The Blob

The Blob (alternately titled as Beware the Blob, Son of Blob, Son of the Blob or The Blob Returns) is a 1972 (copyrighted 1971) sequel to horror science-fiction film The Blob.

Charles Lampkin

He played the character of Charles in Arch Oboler's Five, the first science fiction film about a Nuclear Holocaust.

Crossworlds

Crossworlds is a 1996 science fiction film starring Rutger Hauer, Josh Charles, Andrea Roth, Stuart Wilson and Jack Black, and directed by Krishna Rao.

Darlene Vogel

Vogel's first feature film was the 1989 science fiction film, Back to the Future Part II and as the IFT intern in the pre-show segment for 1991 film ride, Back to the Future: The Ride for the Universal movie parks.

Eolomea

Kruschel, Karsten: "Leim für die Venus. Der Science-Fiction-Film in der DDR." Das Science Fiction Jahr 2007 ed.

Experiment IV

The science fiction film-in-miniature includes appearances from Dawn French, Hugh Laurie, Richard Vernon, Peter Vaughan and Del Palmer.

Flight 19

The 1977 science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind featured a depiction of the Flight 19 planes being discovered in the desert and later their pilots are returned to Earth by peaceful alien captors.

Future World

Futureworld, the 1976 sequel to the 1973 science fiction film Westworld

Giga-

The DeLorean time machine in the 1985 American science fiction film Back to the Future requires 1.21 gigawatts (pronounced "one point twenty-one gigawatts") of electrical power to travel through time, according to its inventor, Doc Brown.

Green slime

The Green Slime a 1968 science-fiction film directed by Kinji Fukasaku

Henderson, Texas

The 1970 science-fiction film Colossus: The Forbin Project mentions Henderson as the site of the fictitious Henderson Air Force Base, the target of a retaliatory ICBM fired by Colossus' Soviet counterpart, the defense supercomputer "Guardian".

House of the Temple

In the 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still, the House of the Temple is in the background as a Washington, D.C., motorcycle cop vainly tries to start his engine.

Hyperion sewage treatment plant

Several key scenes from the 1956 science fiction film Earth vs. the Flying Saucers were shot at the Hyperion Treatment Plant.

Immortel

Immortel (ad vitam), a 2004 English-language, French-produced science fiction film, based upon the graphic novel La Foire aux immortels (The Carnival of Immortals).

Inhabited Island

The Inhabited Island, a science fiction film directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk based on the novel

It!

It! The Terror from Beyond Space, a 1958 science fiction film directed by Edward L. Cahn

Jacek Yerka

In 1990, Yerka received a contract with Hollywood producer Renee Daalder to design figures, monster-machines and surreal landscapes for the science fiction film Strawberry fields.

John De Margheriti

During his senior years at Hawker College De Margheriti co-created an amateur 8mm science fiction film after watching the first “Star Wars : Episode 4” film.

Jp2

The Lost World: Jurassic Park, a 1997 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg

Kan Ishii

In addition to orchestral and vocal music, he has written extensively for the stage, including 6 operas, 3 ballets and 9 film scores, including the 1962 science-fiction film Gorath.

Kenneth Tobey

That role led to other science fiction film roles in the 1950s, usually cast in the role of a military man, particularly The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), and It Came from Beneath the Sea (1956).

Krell

In the classic 1956 science fiction film, Forbidden Planet, the extinct race of advanced beings of the planet Altair IV are known as the "Krell".

Marine Corps Air Station Eagle Mountain Lake

In 1959, the severely deteriorated buildings were used in a science fiction film entitled Beyond the Time Barrier, in which the protagonist, an Air Force test pilot, travels into the future on a supersonic airplane and returns to find that the air base from which he took off is in ruins.

Marshalltown High School

Mr. Kosinski made his big-screen directorial debut with the Disney Digital 3-D science fiction film Tron: Legacy in December 2010.

Matt Reeves

Since 2011 Reeves is working on the script of 8 O'Clock in the Morning, a science fiction film based on the short story of same name written by Ray Nelson.

Novachord

Like its contemporaries, the Theremin, the Ondes Martenot and the Trautonium, the Novachord can be heard occasionally in horror and science fiction film scores including many genre films from Universal Studios and James Bernard's ethereal music for Hammer's The Gorgon (1964).

Odeya Rush

The Giver is an upcoming science fiction film directed by Phillip Noyce and written by Michael Mitnick.

Paraceratherium

According to special effects creator Phil Tippett, Paraceratherium was the inspiration for the AT-AT walkers featured in the 1980 science-fiction film Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.

Personhood

As it turns out, this erasure... is precisely what is experimentally dramatized in the “science fiction” film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a far more philosophically sophisticated meditation on personal identity than is found in most of the contemporary literature on the topic.

Quest of the Delta Knights

The opening theme is a re-use of the theme from the 1980 science fiction film Battle Beyond the Stars.

Roberta Collins

She starred in many exploitation films, including the prostitute, Clara in Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive, and the character, Matilda the Hun in the science fiction film, Death Race 2000.

Savage Planet

Fantastic Planet, an alternative title for an animated 1973 science fiction film

Terry Camilleri

Other appearances include as Special Branch police officer Hemmings in the science fiction film Incident at Raven's Gate.

The Indestructible Man

Indestructible Man, a black-and-white second-feature science fiction film starring Lon Chaney, Jr., made in 1956

This Is What You Want... This Is What You Get

The song "The Order of Death" appears on the soundtrack of the movie, The Blair Witch Project, and the 1990 science fiction film, Hardware.

Titanium ring

A titanium wedding-ring is used as a minor plot-point in the 1989 science fiction film and novel The Abyss.

Vanity plate

This can be used as a comical element, as "Outatime" in the DeLorean DMC-12 time machine featured in the science fiction film Back to the Future.

War of the Planets

Cosmos: War of the Planets (original title: Anno Zero Guerra Nello Spazio / Year Zero: War in Space), an Italian science fiction film from 1977, directed by Alfonso Brescia

Xpanse CGI

Xpanse CGI is best known for creating Levity Xero Error Minus1, the first computer generated science fiction film produced in the UAE.

Zero Theory

The Zero Theorem, a science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam