90's Sci-fi movies you might have missed to get you through the weekend. (Good,Bad,WTF)  Thanks IMDB!

Aug 27, 2016 5:11 AM

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The City of Lost Children (1995) 7.7/10 IMDB

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

Cool World (1992) 4.8/10  IMDB ?

A comic strip vamp seeks to seduce her cartoonist creator in order to cross over into the real world.

Cube (1997) 7.3/10

Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.

Event Horizon (1997) 6.7/10

A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.

I Come In Peace (1990) 6.0/10 IMDB

Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. An alien force is present on the streets of Houston, killing and gathering stocks of a rare drug found only in the brain...

Soldier (1998) 6.0/10 IMDB

A soldier is dumped on a waste disposal planet and lives among a community of crash survivors on the planet and takes it upon himself to defend his new home when genetic engineered soldiers are ordered to eliminate the crash survivors.

Twelve Monkeys (1995) 8.1/10 IMDB

In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.

Gattaca (1997) 7.8/10 IMDB

A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.

Johnny Mnemonic (1995) 5.6/10 IMDB

A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.

Screamers (1995) 6.4/10 IMDB

On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices.

The Lawnmower Man (1992) 5.4/10 IMDB

A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.

Dark City (1998) 7.7/10 IMDB

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun.

Strange Days (1995) 7.2/10 IMDB

A former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999.

eXistenZ (1999) 6.8/10 IMDB

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

Fire in the Sky (1993) 6.5/10 IMDB

An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975.

Event horizon left me freaked out for days,one of my favourite sf/horror movies,scary shit.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

This is prob the first movie list on here where i know them all.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Yes. So much yes.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

+1 for dark city, one of my favorite movies of all time

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Cube always fucked me up.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I watched it stoned with my best friend and her dad. She started crying and her dad couldnt stop giggling at the most fucked up scenes.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Gattaca is such a great flick

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Cube 2: HYPERCUBE

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Pro Tip: Take some acid before watching Event Horizon, you'll thank me later!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fuck that shit man. Might as well tell them to watch silent hill too if you want them to freak the fuck out n claw at their skin

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Strange Days is really a fucking fantastic film.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

FUCK EVENT HORIZON

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Cool world....yeah. I remember that one.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

God Johnny Mnemonic was such a steaming pile of shit. I love it!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Johnny Mnemonic is a fucking disaster in every way imaginable

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Th ceaseless cruelty of Cube really fucked with me. "Don't know the barely visible trick of getting through this alive? Tough luck."

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've tried to watch Dark City like 100x... still have NFI how it ends... fall asleep every time...

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

... and then you wake up and The Matrix is playing instead.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No one mentioned the awesomeness of cool world. There was even an send game based on it.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Probably because Cool World is terrible.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I always wonder if people know what they mean by 'kafkaesque'. A lot of people have read Kafka but I hear it so often I assume people (1/2)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

use it a little ignorantly. Not seen the film but I imagine it's used correctly. (2/2)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My eldest daughter is named after the heroine from City of lost children. It's going to be fun to explain when she's older.

9 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Miette!

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Precisely. :)

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Event Horizon is amazing.

9 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 3

Yes. I now understand why my mother thinks Sam Neill is so creepy. I mean I know him from Jurassic Park, so I had no clue.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

That movie had everything the Doom movie should have.

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Never thought of that, +1. The actual Doom movie wasn't bad as generic action movie #135, but it wasn't Doom.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Try "In the mouth of madness."

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

These aren't from the 90's these were just last....ohhhhhhh. I'm old, now I am sad.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

The 'ole time travel gets you every time.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well played.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hahahaha that was my exact thought...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Event Horizon is cool and scary. I am sure it was the idea for Dead space gaming franchise. Check it out. Imdb underrated imo

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

Seeing it again, it has some pretty cheesy moments. But I really like the premise.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If the movie was too cheesy read the book adaption. It goes into a little bit more detail on everyones past and reads like 2001 space Odyssy

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There are many similarities in Event Horizon and the Warhammer 40k Franchise. :)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is what happens when you fire warp drive without a bloody gellar field, you silly moos!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I love screamers so much. Underrated movie imo

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Much discussion lately of human-like AI in movies, but this one never gets mentioned.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Second variety" the short story its based on is my all time favorite. Didn't know they made a movie about it so excited about it now :D

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Damn. When sci fi was good. Almost all of these movies are great.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

not all 90s sci fi is great though. lots of crap as well

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Lawnmower Man. Shorty story by Stephen King. Tortured into a 90 minute mess as they could use Tron style CGI for the 'romantic bit'.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

but still better than Lawnmower man 2

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sequels that got the green light because someone owed someone else something after losing a bet.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Isn't it loosely based on the short story Flowers for Algernon?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Good cop. Bad alien. Big trouble.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

One dorar. You pay now!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This movie was so horrible it came all the way back around and was good some how.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"He's a cop on the edge who threw away the rulebook and lets his gun do the talking, and his gun only knows one loud very word."

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The Dolph Lungren one "I come in peace" was also titled "Dark Angel", I have a VHS copy of it.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Please tell me you think it is as bad as I do. Although it's so bad it is somehow good/funny to watch.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It was terrible, but yeah - it cheeseball'd into being something to watch. The electromagnetic killer disc was worth a laugh.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fire in the sky is based in a book written by the guy who was abducted. My brother in law grew up in that town and that guy is super serious

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Soldier is one of my favorite SF films. Russel's performance is heartbreakingly human and delivered in near silence.

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Unbelievably it got terrible reviews when it came out. One of Kurt Russel's best performances.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Definitely in my top ten yet so few people that I know have even heard of it.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm going to kill them all sir.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The crying scene is great...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My favourite is the sawn-off mini guns the bad guys have. Crazy!

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It was the movie that made me understand what PTSD was and how it affects people.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Also, it's set in the Blade Runner universe.

9 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 1

I thought it was confirmed to be in the Alien universe?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nope, Blade Runner. But fair confusion, as they are both classic sci-fi directed by Ridley Scott.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That is implied, yes, tho not certain. Todd's service record names places Roy references in BR, but those names are references to myth.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

The writer has stated it, though

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Interesting mix ranging from bloody awful (e.g. Johnny Mnemonic) to life-changingly amazing (e.g 12 Monkeys)

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 4

Johnny Mnemonic is a dumb movie that's fun to watch. There's nothing wrong with that.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nothing wrong with it at all. And nothing wrong with me not liking it. 'Tis all good.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Aw common.... Johnny Mnemonic is /and least/ as good as Time Cop.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'll grant you that but it doesn't say much about Time Cop :)

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Remember how for some reason there's a cybernetic dolphin connected to the internet, and for no reason they release him at the end?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Your way of putting it made me laugh way more than the movie, and I remember laughing a lot during that movie!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Strange Days is a really under appreciated film. Directed by Katherine Bigelow and written by James Cameron, it's very clever, well 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

acted, and deals with a lot of social issues that remain very relevant today. And you gotta love Michael Wincott's voice. 2/2

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I loved this movie so much and no one I know has seen it !!

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Make your friends watch it!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I dont have many these days and most are boring fuckers

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Shit, that's a bummer. If you live near oregon, I'll be your friend.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I really like Screamers.... Anyone. Anyone else? No. Okay then.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

A guy who really loves Dick showed it to me once. I guess it was fine, maybe time for another look. Thanks

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Mate there is a lot of photos of dicks online, you don't have to bother your friend to see another.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You misunderstand.. it's the author, like here

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