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LIST OF SF TITLES L-Q The Ratings: – Terrible, The Worst – Disappointingly Poor – Mediocre – Fair But Not Great – Very Good – A Masterpiece Title Director/Year Theme Rating L The Land That Time Forgot Kevin Connor 1974 Prehistoric Lost World ½ The Land Unknown Virgil Vogel 1957 Prehistoric Lost World Lara Croft, Tomb Raider Simon West 2001 Archaeological Adventuress/Videogame Adaptation Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life Jan de Bont 2003 Archaeological Adventuress/Videogame Adaptation Laserblast Michael Rae 1977 Teen Underdog Takes Revenge with an Alien Raygun The Last Battle (Luc Besson, 1983). Refer to Le Dernier Comat. The Last Days of Man on Earth (Robert Fuest, 1974). Refer to The Final Programme. Last Lives Worth Keeter 1996 Alternate World Criminal/Resurrection Bracelets/Action The Last Man on Earth Sidney Salkow 1964 Last Man on Earth vs Vampires ½ The Last Mimzy Bob Shaye 2007 Toys from the Future Last Night Don McKellar 1998 The End of the World The Last Starfighter Nick Castle 1984 Videogame Junkie Joins Intergalactic War Late for Dinner W.D. Richter 1991 Cryogenic Sleepers Awake in the Present ½ The Lawnmower Man Brett Leonard 1992 Virtual Reality/Enhanced Intelligence Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace Farhad Mann 1996 Messianic Cyberspace Madman ½ The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Stephen Norrington 2003 Teamup of Characters from Victorian Fiction/Graphic Novel Adaptation Legend in Leotards (Philippe Mora, 1983). Refer to The Return of Captain Invincible. Legion Jon Hess 1997 Soldiers vs Alien Nasty Legion of Fire: Killer Ants (James Charleston, 1998). Refer to Marabunta. Lensman Kazuyuki Hirokawa, Yoshiaki Kawajiri 1984 Anime/Space Opera Leonard Part 6 Paul Weiland 1987 Gonzo Spy Comedy Letters from a Dead Man Konstantin Lopuchansky 1986 The Nuclear Holocaust – The Russian Perspective Level Five Chris Marker 1996 Virtual Reality Game/World War II Documentary Life on the Edge Tom Burman 1989 Family Life in a Weird Alternate Society Lifeforce Tobe Hooper 1985 Soul-Sucking Alien Vampires ½ The Lifeforce Experiment (Piers Haggard, 1993). Refer to The Breakthrough. The Lift Dick Maas 1983 Killer Elevator Light Years (Rene Laloux, 1988). Refer to Gandahar. Lilo & Stitch Dean De Blois, Chris Sanders 2002 Disney Animation/Malevolent Alien Creature Liquid Sky Slava Tsukerman 1982 Drug-Addicted Flying Saucer Little Shop of Horrors Frank Oz 1986 Killer Plant Musical Live Free or Die Hard Len Wiseman 2007 Action Film/Socially Catastrophic Hack Attack Live Wire Christian Duguay 1992 Human Bombs/Thriller Live Wire 2: Human Timebomb (Mark Roper, 1994). Refer to Human Timebomb. Lobster Man from Mars Stanley Sheff 1990 Bad SF Movie Parody Loch Ness John Henderson 1996 Quest for the Loch Ness Monster Logan’s Run Michael Anderson 1976 Dystopia Longing for Eternity Robert Favreau 1989 Artificial Womb/Immortality Drug Looker Michael Crichton 1981 Virtual Models ½ Lost in Space Stephen Hopkins 1998 Intergalactic Adventures/TV Series Remake The Lost World Harry O. Hoyt 1925 Lost Plateau of Dinosaurs ½ The Lost World: Jurassic Park Steven Spielberg 1997 Genetically Engineered Dinosaurs Amok ½ LunarCop Boaz Davidson 1994 Post-Holocaust Action M Mac and Me Stewart Raffill 1988 Cute Alien La Machine Francois Dupreyon 1994 Psychiatrist Swaps Bodies with a Serial Killer Mad Max George Miller 1979 Near Future Road Rage ½ Mad Max 2 George Miller 1981 Post-Holocaust Action ½ Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome George Miller, George Ogilvie 1985 Post-Holocaust Action Mad Mission 4: You Only Die Twice (Ringo Lam, 1986). Refer to Aces Go Places 4: You Only Die Twice. Making Mr Right Susan Seidelman 1987 Android Romance Comedy ½  Malice@doll Keitaro Motonaga 2001 Anime/Sex Robot Becomes Human The Man Joseph Sargent 1972 First Black US President ½ Man Facing Southeast Eliseo Subiela 1987 Christ-like Alien Visitor in a Psychiatric Institution The Man from Planet X Edgar G. Ulmer 1951 Alien Visitor The Man in the White Suit Alexander Mackendrick 1951 Imperishable Suit Invention Comedy The Man Who Fell to Earth Nicolas Roeg 1976 Alienated Alien Visitor ½ The Man Who Used to Be Me (Jeff Woolnough, 2000). Refer to Race Against Time. The Man Who Wasn’t There Bruce Malmuth 1983 Invisible Man The Man Who Wasn’t There Joel Coen 2001 Film Noir Thriller/UFOs The Man with the Deadly Lens (Richard Brooks, 1982). Refer to Wrong is Right. The Man with the Golden Gun Guy Hamilton 1974 James Bond The Man with Two Brains Carl Reiner 1983 Disembodied Brain Movie Spoof ½ The Man With X-Ray Eyes (Roger Corman, 1963). Refer to X – The Man With X-Ray Eyes. The Manchurian Candidate John Frankenheimer 1962 Brainwashed Assassin/Political Satire The Manchurian Candidate Jonathan Demme 2004 Brainwashed Assassin/Political Thriller ½ The Manhattan Project Marshall Brickman 1986 Teenager Builds Atomic Bomb Man’s Best Friend John Lafia 1993 Genetically-Engineered Killer Dog Marabunta James Charleston 1998 Killer Ants Marooned John Sturges 1969 NASA Space Mission Disaster Mars Jon Hess 1996 Action on Mars Mars Attacks! Tim Burton 1996 Alien Invasion Spoof Mars Needs Women Larry Buchanan 1966 Alien Invasion Martians Go Home David Odell 1990 Annoying Alien Invaders ½ Master of Terror (Irvin S. Yeaworth, 1959). Refer to The 4D Man. Masters of the Universe Gary Goddard 1987 Intergalactic Sword-and-Sorcery Matinee Joe Dante 1993 B-Movie Homage/Genre Fandom Childhood ½ The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human ∞3 [Jeff Abugov] 1999 Alien Anthopolgist Studies Human Mating Behaviour Mockumentary The Matrix The Wachowski Brothers 1999 Virtual Reality The Matrix Reloaded The Wachowski Brothers 2003 Virtual Reality The Matrix Revolutions The Wachowski Brothers 2003 Virtual Reality Mauvais Sang Leos Carax 1986 Near-Future Romance Meatballs Part II Ken Wiederhorn 1984 Summer Camp Comedy/Alien Visitor Medicine Man John McTiernan 1992 Cancer Cure in the Amazonian Rainforest Meet Dave Brian Robbins 2008 Eddie Murphy as a Spaceship Comedy ½ Meet the Applegates Michael Lehmann 1991 Family of Insects/Black Comedy Meet the Hollowheads (Tom Burman, 1989). Refer to Life on the Edge. Meet the Robinsons Stephen J. Anderson 2007 Disney Animation/Gonzo Future Family/Time Travel Megaforce Hal Needham 1982 Hi-Tech Action Team Memoirs of a Survivor David Gladwell 1981 Decayed Future ½ Memories Kouji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura, Katsuhiro Otomo 1995 Anime Anthology ½ Men in Black Barry Sonnenfeld 1997 Alien Coverup Conspiracy Agency Men in Black II Barry Sonnenfeld 2002 Alien Coverup Conspiracy Agency Mercano the Martian Juan Antin 2002 Animation/Alien Visitor/Satire ½ The Mercury Project Christopher Bremble 2000 Teenagers Build a Rocket Message from Space Kinji Fukasaku 1978 Japanese Space Opera Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn Charles Band 1983 Planetary Adventure The Meteor Man Robert Townsend 1993 Black Superhero Metropolis Fritz Lang 1927 Dystopia/Social Revolution/Mad Scientist/Robot Temptress Metropolis Rintaro 2001 Anime/Retro Future/Android Girl Mighty Joe Young Ernest B. Schoedsack 1949 Giant Ape ½ Mighty Joe Young Ron Underwood 1998 Giant Ape Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (Bryan Spicer, 1995). Refer to Power Rangers: The Movie. The Mighty Peking Man Ho Meng-Hwa 1977 Giant Ape Millennium Michael Anderson 1989 Time Travel The Million Dollar Duck Vincent McEveety 1971 Golden Egg-Laying Duck/Disney Comedy The Million Dollar Hotel Wim Wenders 2000 Near Future Fleapit Hotel Murder Mystery Mimic Guillermo Del Toro 1997 Evolved Insects Mimic 2 Jean De Segonzac 2001 Evolved Insect Monster Mindbender Ken Russell 1996 “True Life” Psychic Uri Geller Biopic Mindwarp Steve Barnett 1991 Post-Holocaust/Virtual Reality Minority Report Steven Spielberg 2002 Future Precognitive Police Force Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack Vince Edwards, Christian I. Nyby II 1979 Battlestar Galactica Movie Mission: Impossible II John Woo 2000 Spy/Action Film Mission: Impossible III J.J. Abrams 2006 Spy/Action Film ½ Mission Stardust Primo Zeglia 1968 Space Opera Mission to Mars Brian De Palma 2000 Mars Landing/Alien Artefact ½ Mr. Accident Yahoo Serious 2000 Gonzo Comedy Mr India Shekhar Kapur 1987 Bollywood Invisible Superhero Comedy Mr. Stitch Roger Avary 1996 Modernized Frankenstein Film ½ The Monkey’s Uncle Robert Stevenson 1965 Teenage Inventor/Disney Comedy Monolith John Eyres 1994 Cops vs Body-Hopping Alien ½ Monster (Barbara Peeters, 1980). Refer to Humanoids from the Deep. Monster from the Ocean Floor Wyott Ordung 1954 Atomic Sea Monster Monster Island J. Piquer Simon 1981 Desert Island Adventures Monster of Terror (Daniel Haller, 1965). Refer to Die, Monster, Die!. Monster on the Campus Jack Arnold 1958 Scientist Reverts to a Caveman The Monster That Challenged the World Arnold Laven 1957 Giant Mollusc Amok Monsters from an Unknown Planet (Inoshiro Honda, 1976). Refer to Terror of Mechagodzilla. Moon 44 Roland Emmerich 1990 Interstellar Prison Moon Pilot James Neilson 1961 Alien Visitor Comedy Moon Zero Two Roy Ward Baker 1969 Lunar Adventures Moonraker Lewis Gilbert 1979 James Bond in Space Morons from Outer Space Mike Hodges 1985 Idiotic Alien Visitors/Genre Spoof Mortal Kombat Paul Anderson 1995 Interdimensional Gladiatorial Combat/Videogame Adaptation Mortal Kombat: Annihilation John R. Leonetti 1997 Interdimensional Gladiatorial Combat/Videogame Adaptation The Most Dangerous Man in the World (J. Lee Thompson, 1969). Refer to The Chairman. Mothra vs Godzilla (Inoshiro Honda, 1964). Refer to Godzilla vs the Thing. Mouse on the Moon Richard Lester 1963 The World’s Smallest Country Launches a Moon Mission Multiplicity Harold Ramis 1996 Cloning Comedy Munchies Bettina Hirsch 1987 Malevolent Alien Critters Muppets from Space Tim Hill 1999 Talking Animals/Alien Contact Murder By Phone (Michael Anderson, 1981). Refer to Bells. Murdercycle Tom Callaway 1998 Alien-Possessed Motorcycle Murderers Row Henry Levin 1966 Spy Film Murders in the Rue Morgue Robert Florey 1932 Mad Scientist ½ Mutant (Alan Holzman, 1982). Refer to Forbidden World. Mutant Hunt Tim Kincaid 1986 Androids Amok Mutant on the Bounty Robert Torrance 1989 Space Opera Comedy The Mutations Jack Cardiff 1974 Mad Scientist ½ Mutronics: The Movie (Screaming Mad George & Steve Wang, 1991). Refer to The Guyver. My Favorite Martian Donald Petrie 1999 Alien Visitor Comedy My First Night (Luis Miguel Albaledejo, 1998). Refer to The First Night of My Life. My Stepmother is an Alien Richard Benjamin 1988 Alien Visitor Comedy My Super Ex-Girlfriend Ivan Reitman 2006 Stalker Superheroine Comedy The Mysterians Inoshiro Honda 1957 Japanese Alien Invader Film ½ Mysterious Island Cy Endfield 1961 Desert Island Survival/Giant Animals Mystery Men Kinka Usher 1999 Bumbling Superheroes Mystery of Monster Island (J. Piquer Simon, 1981). Refer to Monster Island. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie Jim Mallon 1995 Old SF Movie with Laugh-Track N The Naked Jungle Byron Haskin 1954 Ant Takeover A Nation Without Women Manish Jha 2003 Future All-Male India National Lampoon’s Men in White Scott Levy 1998 Genre Spoof Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind Hayao Miyazaki 1984 Anime/Post-Holocaust Environmentalism ½ Nemesis Albert Pyun 1993 Cyberpunk/Cyborg Takeover ½ Nemesis 2: Nebula Albert Pyun 1995 Time-Travelling Killer Cyborgs ½ Nemesis 3: Time Lapse Albert Pyun 1995 Time-Travelling Killer Cyborgs The Neptune Factor: An Undersea Odyssey Daniel Petrie 1973 Submarine Adventure The Net Irwin Winkler 1995 Cyber-Thriller The Never Dead (Don Coscarelli, 1979). Refer to Phantasm. Never Say Never Again Irvin Kershner 1983 James Bond The New Barbarians Enzo G. Castellari 1983 Post-Holocaust New Eden Alan Metzger 1994 Prison Planet ½ New Rose Hotel Abel Ferrara 1998 Cyberpunk ½  Next Lee Tamahori 2007 Precognition/Action The Next One Nico Mastorakis 1984 Mysterious Visitor The Night is Young (Leos Carax, 1986). Refer to Mauvais Sang. Night of the Big Heat Terence Fisher 1967 Alien Invasion Night of the Comet Thom Eberhardt 1984 Post-Holocaust Bimbos Night of the Creeps Fred Dekker 1986 Alien Slugs/Resurrection of the Dead/Genre Homage Night of the Lepus William F. Claxton 1972 Giant Rabbits Amok Night Shadows: Project Shadowchaser II (John Eyes, 1994). Refer to Project Shadowchaser II. Nineteen Eighty-Four Michael Radford 1984 Dystopia 1990: The Bronx Warriors Enzo G. Castellari 1982 Future Gang Warfare Nirvana Gabriele Salvatores 1997 Cyberpunk No Escape Martin Campbell 1994 Future Prison/Action The Noah’s Ark Principle Roland Emmerich 1984 Weather Satellite Action Not Of This Earth Jim Wynorski 1988 Alien Vampire Nothing Vincenzo Natali 2003 Two Characters in a Blank White Void Nothing But the Night Peter Sasdy 1972 Mind Transplant Syndicate Now You See Him, Now You Don’t Robert Butler 1972 Invisibility Comedy The Nude Bomb Clive Donner 1980 Get Smart Movie/Spy Spoof The Nutty Professor Jerry Lewis 1963 Personality Transformation Formula Comedy ½ The Nutty Professor Tom Shadyac 1996 Personality Transformation Formula Comedy ½  The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps Peter Segal 2000 Rejuvenation Formula Comedy ½ O O Lucky Man! Lindsay Anderson 1973 Social Satire Octaman Harry Essex 1971 Monster Movie Octopus John Eyres 2000 Giant Octopus Octopussy John Glen 1983 James Bond Omega Doom Albert Pyun 1995 Post-Holocaust Cyborg War ½ The Omega Man Boris Sagal 1971 Last Man on Earth vs Mutants On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Peter Hunt 1969 James Bond ½ On the Beach Stanley Kramer 1959 The Nuclear Holocaust On the Beach Russell Mulcahy 2000 The Nuclear Holocaust The One James Wong 2001 Alternative Universe Hopping Action One Hour to Doomsday (Irwin Allen, 1970). Refer to City Beneath the Sea. One Million Years B.C. Don Chaffey 1966 Cavemen vs Dinosaurs Open Your Eyes Alejandro Amenabar 1997 Reality Bender Orgazmo Trey Parker 1997 Mormon Porn Star Superhero ½ Our Man Flint Daniel Mann 1965 Spy Film Spoof Outbreak Wolfgang Petersen 1995 Plague Outbreak Outland Peter Hyams 1981 Mining Moon Action The Outsider David Bishop 1996 Android Amusement Park Amok ½ P The Pacifier Adam Shankman 2005 Action Hero Becomes Babysitter Comedy Panic in Year Zero! Ray Milland 1962 Nuclear War/Ruthless Survivalism Paprika Satoshi Kon 2006 Anime/Dream Therapy Device ½ Parasite Charles Band 1982 Chestbursting Nasty ½ The Parasite Murders (David Cronenberg, 1975). Refer to Shivers. The Passion of Ayn Rand Christopher Menaul 1999 SF Writer Biopic Past Perfect Jonathan Heap 1996 Assassins from the Future Patlabor: The Mobile Police Mamoru Oshii 1989 Anime/Police Amok-Robot Squad ½ The Patriot Dean Semler 1998 Action Film/Biowarfare Outbreak Paycheck John Woo 2003 Precognition/Action Film Peacemaker Kevin S. Tenney 1990 Alien Cop and Criminal Fight on Earth Percy Ralph Thomas 1971 Penis Transplant Comedy The People That Time Forgot Kevin Connor 1977 Prehistoric Lost World ½ Percy’s Progress Ralph Thomas 1974 Last Fertile Man on Earth Comedy ½ Pet Shop Hope Perello 1994 Shape-Changing Alien Pets Phantasm Don Coscarelli 1979 Dream Horrors/Other-Dimensional Grave Robbers Phantasm II Don Coscarelli 1988 Dream Horrors/Other-Dimensional Grave Robbers ½ Phantasm III Don Coscarelli 1994 Dream Horrors/Other-Dimensional Grave Robbers ½ Phantasm: Lord of the Dead (Don Coscarelli, 1994). Refer to Phantasm III. The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues Dan Milner 1955 Atomic Sea Monster The Phantom Planet William Marshall 1961 Miniature Planet Phenomenon Jon Turteltaub 1996 Man Gains Expanded Mental Powers The Philadelphia Experiment Stewart Raffill 1984 Time Travel Philadelphia Experiment II Stephen Cornwell 1994 Alternate History/Nazis Rule ½  Pi Darren Aronofsky 1998 Reality-Bending Mathematics The Pink Panther Strikes Again Blake Edwards 1976 Bumbling Police Inspector Comedy ½  Piranha Joe Dante 1978 Killer Fish Piranha Scott Levy 1995 Killer Fish Piranha II: Flying Killers James Cameron 1981 Killer Fish Pitch Black David Twohy 2000 Planetary Survival Plague Ed Hunt 1978 Plague Outbreak ½ The Plague Luis Puenzo 1993 Plague Outbreak Plan 9 from Outer Space Edward D. Wood Jr 1959 Alien Invasion/Classic Bad Movie Planet Earth Marc Daniels 1974 Post-Holocaust Women Rule Society Planet of Blood (Curtis Harrington, 1966). Refer to Queen of Blood. Planet of the Apes Franklin Schaffner 1968 Planet of Talking Apes Planet of the Apes Tim Burton 2001 Planet of Talking Apes Planet of the Vampires Mario Bava 1965 Mysterious Planet/Alien Possessed Dead Pleasurecraft Franklin Vallette 1999 Space Opera/Erotica Pluto Nash (Ron Underwood, 2002). Refer to The Adventures of Pluto Nash. The Power Byron Haskin 1967 Psychic Supermind Power Rangers: The Movie Bryan Spicer 1995 Teen Power-Suit Superheroes ½ Precious Find Philippe Mora 1996 Gold Prospectors in Outer Space Predator John McTiernan 1987 Action/Humans Hunted by Alien Sportsman ½ Prehysteria! Albert & Charles Band 1994 Baby Dinosaurs Prehysteria! 2 Albert Band 1994 Baby Dinosaurs Prehysteria! 3 Julian Breen 1995 Baby Dinosaurs The President’s Analyst Theodore J. Flicker 1967 Spy Comedy/Political Satire The Prestige Christopher Nolan 2006 Rival Victorian Stage Magicians Primer Shane Carruth 2003 Mysterious Scientific Experiment/Time Travel Prince of Darkness John Carpenter 1987 The Devil and Quantum Physics Prince of Space E. Wakabayashi 1959 Japanese Space Opera Prisonship (Fred Olen Ray, 1986). Refer to The Adventures of Taura: Prison Ship Star Slammer. Project Moon Base Richard Talmadge 1953 Expedition to the Moon Project: Shadowchaser John Eyres 1992 Android Terrorist Project Shadowchaser II John Eyres 1994 Android Terrorist ½ Project Shadowchaser III John Eyres 1995 Shapechanging Killer Android ½ Project X William Castle 1968 Future Mental Probing/Reality Simulations Project X Jonathan Kaplan 1987 Save the Chimpanzees Proteus Bob Keen 1996 Shape-Shifting Monster Prototype (Phillip Roth, 1992). Refer to Prototype X29A. Prototype X29A Phillip Roth 1992 Post-Holocaust Cyborg Wars Proxima Carlos Atanes 2007 Science-Fiction Fan Makes Alien Contact ½ Pterodactyl Mark L. Lester 2005 Dinosaurs Amok ½ Pulse Paul Golding 1988 Malevolent Electrical Appliances The Punisher Mark Goldblatt 1990 Comic-Book Vigilante ½ The Punisher Jonathan Hensleigh 2004 Comic-Book Vigilante The Puppet Masters Stuart Orme 1994 Alien Body Snatchers ½ Purple People Eater Linda Shayne 1988 Cute Musical Alien Q Q Planes Tim Whelan 1939 British Air Hero Comedy-Thriller Quatermass Piers Haggard 1979 Alien Megalithic Artefacts Reactivated Quatermass and the Pit Roy Ward Baker 1967 Alien Artefact/The Devil The Quatermass Conclusion (Piers Haggard, 1979). Refer to Quatermass. The Quatermass Experiment Sam Miller 2005 Mutating Astronaut The Quatermass Xperiment Val Guest 1955 Mutating Astronaut Queen of Blood Curtis Harrington 1966 Alien Vampire Woman Queen of Outer Space Edward L. Bernds 1958 Planet of Women Quest for Fire Jean-Jacques Annaud 1981 Prehistory The Quiet Earth Geoff Murphy 1985 Last People on Earth ½ Quintet Robert Altman 1979 Frozen Future/Enigmatic Game Back to Main