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An error has ocurred. Please try againMost won't agree with my choices and some great films didn't make it to the top ten list.
Honorable mentions include: The Butterfly Effect, Timecop, Bill and Ted (both), Groundhog Day, A Christmas Carol, Primer, Philadelphia Experiment, Star Trek: The Voyage Home, Hot Tub Time Machine.
This list is very personal and many will shake their heads with incredulity at some of the choices, and more so at those I have left out. I have always been a popcorn moviegoer as opposed to the more serious critic and these choices bare this out. These are simply the sci-fi movies I love to watch the most, nothing more, nothing less.
Honorable mentions go to: When Worlds Collide; Forbidden Planet; On the Beach; The Day of the Triffids; Fantastic Voyage; Rollerball; Logan's Run; Outland; ET; Ghostbusters; Starman; Total Recall; Minority Report; Iron Man; District 9.
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Reviews
Event Horizon (1997)
Disturbingly Good
I tried to remember the last time I found myself scared or disturbed by a movie. It was so long ago in fact that I simply couldn't recall. I was 35 when I first saw this movie; after it had finished I felt like I was 10 years old and had just finished watching an old scratchy B&W werewolf flick.
It had been so long since I had truly been disturbed in a scared way I'd almost forgotten what it felt like. Schindlers List troubled me, but not in this way, this was a true feeling of shock and horror. Four or five minutes after the screen had gone blank and the music faded, I'm still staring at the TV screen in a nicely terrorized state. I had to shake myself to snap out of it. Fabulous!!!!!
I love seeing peoples faces after I have told them to watch this film. They give me that, "Oh my God!!!!!!" look and breath in deeply at the same time. They too have been truly traumatized for a short while. When they discover the nature of the garbled video message is a great recoil moment within the film and one I can still remember some 5 years after seeing it. If you're easily scared don't watch this movie, you'll have a heart attack. If you haven't been scared in a while then be prepared for how marvelous that feeling is.
YOU HAVE BEEN DULY WARNED!!!!!!!!!!!