The OFFICIAL list of 40 greatest sci-fi classics EVER!

Good list. I loved seeing “This Is Not A Test” among your 40. I saw this on TV probably not long after its release in 1962. It haunted me down through the decades until I found it online a while back. It still retains its power.

I’ve got a little list of 25 of my own drawn from a much longer list of favorites. I have put them chronologically rather than go through the agony of rating which I never find satisfactory. Anyway, enjoy.

Metropolis / Fritz Lang (1927)
Island of Lost Souls / Erle C. Kenton (1932)
Berkeley Square / Frank Lloyd (1933)
The Thing from Another World / Christian Nyby (1951)
Them! / Gordon Douglas (1954)
The Incredible Shrinking Man / Jack Arnold (1957)
On the Beach / Stanley Kramer (1959)
The Time Machine / George Pal (1960)
2001: A Space Odyssey / Stanley Kubrick (1968)
Solyaris / Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind / Steven Spielberg (1977)
Alien / Ridley Scott (1979)
Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan / Nicholas Meyer (1982)
Back To The Future / Robert Zemeckis (1985)
Aliens / James Cameron (1986)
Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound / Roger Corman (1990)
Contact / Robert Zemeckis (1997)
Gattaca / Andrew Niccol (1997)
Primer / Shane Carruth (2004)
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind / Michael Gondry (2004)
Children Of Men / Alfonso Cuarón (2006)
Los Cronocrímenes (Timecrimes) / Nacho Vigalondo (2007)
Moon / Duncan Jones (2009)
Predestination / Michael And Peter Spierig (2014)