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8 Great Cult Sci-Fi Movies from 1985

December 29, 2025 by Casey Chong

Casey Chong looks at eight essential cult sci-fi movies from 1985…. 1985 was a big year for a certain sci-fi movie called Back to the Future, which made over $210 million in the stateside alone. Robert Zemeckis’ genre-defining, time-travel masterpiece remains a cinematic icon to this day. However, the year also saw a handful of […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Casey Chong, Featured, Movies, Top Stories Tagged With: Brazil, Cocoon, Enemy Mine, Explorers, Lifeforce, Re-Animator, The Quiet Earth, the stuff

Underloved Sci-Fi Movies from the 80s VHS Era

July 4, 2021 by Red Stewart

Marvelous Videos presents underloved sci-fi movies from the VHS era…. Back in the days of Blockbuster stores, you had entire sections of the retail place dedicated to science fiction. Whether it was action, horror, comedy, or straight-up drama, you couldn’t go two aisles without finding something interesting to check-out. Just because we’ve lost the brick-and-mortar […]

Filed Under: Articles, Opinions and Long Reads, Movies, Random Videos, Red Stewart Tagged With: altered states, dead-end drive in, Explorers, liquid sky, looker, Marvelous Videos, miracle mine, spacehunter: adventures in the forbidden zone, the ice pirates, the philadelphia experiment, The Quiet Earth

Explorers TV pilot in development from Cary Fukunaga and David Lowery

November 8, 2018 by Gary Collinson

Deadline is reporting that Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) and David Lowery (The Old Man and the Gun) are teaming up for a TV adaptation of Joe Dante’s cult 80s sci-fi adventure Explorers. Released in 1985 and starring Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix and Jason Presson, and follows a sci-fi obsessed boy who has a recurring dream about […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, News, Television Tagged With: Cary Fukunaga, David Lowery, Explorers

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