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• W.E.I.R.D. World (1995)

Noteworthy attempt to bring E.C. Comics’ Weird Science to the small screen

• Waiting for Gorgo (2009)

Beautifully minimal comedy short.  Has she come?

• Wakusei daikaijû Negadon [Negadon: The Monster from Mars] (2005)

Beautiful CGI Kaiju Eiga Short.  Martian monster vs. Giant robot

• War God (1976)

See Zhan shen

• War-Gods of the Deep [City in the Sea] (1965)

Vincent Price, a lost city beneath the sea…and a chicken?

• War of the God Monsters (1985)

See Bicheongoesu

• War of the Planets (1958)

Boy, that short film looks awfully familiar: home video has come a long way…

• War of the Worlds (2006)

See Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of ‘The War of the Worlds’

• War of the Worlds: Goliath (2012)

Steampunk anime robots vs. tripods.  That’s ’bout it

• The War of the Worlds: Next Century [Wojna swiatów – nastepne stulecie](1981)

Blistering Polish political fable.  Piotr Szulkin’s second film

• War of the Worlds the True Story (2012)

Faux documentary about that war with Mars we’ve all forgotten

• The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (The Osiris Chronicles) (1998)

A Joe Dante film.  Without all that Joe Dante stuff

• Warlords of Atlantis [Warlords of the Deep] (1978)

Incredible pulp adventure film from the team which made The Land Time Forgot

• WARNING FROM SPACE (1956)

See Uchûjin Tôkyô ni arawaru

• Warning Sign (1985)

A piece of tape can cause so much trouble!  Rage Zombies and bioweapons

• Warp Speed (1981)

A creepy haunted spaceship film — for the first half hour

• Warriors of Future (2022)

See Ming yat zin gei

• Warriors of the Year 2072 (1984)

See I guerrieri dell’anno 2072

• The Watcher in the Woods (1980)

Disney Hammer clone ghost story for kids.  With an alien in the deleted ending

• Watchers (1988)

A boy and his superintelligent dog.  Oh, and there’s a monster…

• Waves [Infestation] (2020)

I heard it on the radio: a mysterious sound, conspiracy and aliens…

• We’re In the Way of Droste (2020)

See Droste no hate de bokura

• We Called Him Robert (1967)

See Evo Zvali Robert

• The Weapon (2000)

Made in Pittsburgh.  For 2000 dollars

• The Web of Death (1976)

See Wu du tian luo

• Welcome to Willits (2016)

Poor Brock. Those pesky aliens won’t leave him alone.  Nor will Dolph Lundgren

• Weresquito: Nazi Hunter (2016)

Christopher R. Mihm’s best yet:  A dark, Noir-ish thriller about a…Weresquito?

• Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory (1961)

See Lycanthropus

• Westworld (1973)

One of the most iconic SF films of all time

• What to Do with the Dead Kaiju? (2022)

See Daikaijû no atoshimatsu

• What Waits Below (1984)

A lost civilization…in a cave

• When the Earth Gives Up the Dead (2022)

Matthew Cooper ties up his trilogy’s loose ends in one, huge messy knot…

• When Time Expires (1997)

It’s routine — put a quarter in a parking meter.  So why is everyone after him?

• Where Have All the People Gone? (1974)

Peter Graves in “Father Knows Best — at the end of the world”

• The Whip Hand (1951)

William Cameron Menzies’ Cold War thriller turned Mad Scientist film

• The Whisperer in Darkness (2007)

Ultra low budget Lovecraft film.  Has moments, but the HPLHS version is better

• The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)

Beautiful, thirties-style version of the Lovecraft short story…

• The Whispering Star (2015)

See Hiso hiso boshi

• The White Plague (1937)

See Bílá nemoc

• Who Wants To Kill Jesse? (1966)

Perhaps the funniest SF comedy ever made

• The Wide World of Mystery: Alien Lover (1975)

See Alien Lover

• The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

Documentary turned SF film.  By Werner Herzog

• Wild, Wild Planet [I criminali della galassia] (1966)

Most insane SF film ever made.  Even if it borders on boring

• The Wild World of Batwoman (1966)

Stupid fun.  But mostly just stupid

• Wild Zero (1999)

The world’s loudest band meets alien zombies.  Only not that good

• Wilder Napalm (1993)

Firestarting brothers’ feud heats up.  Eccentric Glenn Gordon Caron comedy

• Wine of India (2013)

See Nigel Kneale’s Wine of India [Wine of India] (2013)

• Wired to Kill (1986)

Post-Apocalyptic revenge film — set in the suburbs…

• THE WITCH: PART 1 – THE SUBVERSION (2018)

See Manyeo

• The Witch’s Mirror (1962)

See El espejo de la bruja

• The Wizard of Mars (1965)

Even the characters don’t know how they got there

• Wizards (1977)

As if Tolkien got a guest shot on Laugh In.  From Ralph Bakshi

• Wolfblood (1925)

…Well, that’s what they thought at the time.  Maybe.  First werewolf movie

• Wolf Hunting (2022)

See Neugdaesanyang

• Wolf’s Hole (1987)

See Vlci bouda

• Womaneater [The Woman Eater] (1958)

It’s a British PRC mad scientist film with a killer tree!

• Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966)

Forbidden Planet copy.  With Einsteinian time distortions

• World Gone Wild (1987)

Amiable post-Apocalyptic Seven Samurai

• World on a Wire [Welt am Draht] (1973)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Classic SF miniseries

• The World Sinks Except Japan (2006)

See Nihon igai zenbu chinbotsu

• The World Will Tremble (1939)

Or, The World Will Shake.  See Le monde tremblera

• The Wrath of Khan (1982)

See Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

• Wrestling Women versus the Murderous Robot (1969)

See Las luchadoras vs el robot asesino

• A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

Disney does the impossible.  They make Madeleine L’Engle’s novel dull.

• Wu du tian luo [The Web of Death] (1976)

Clan battles, Kung Fu and an ancient spider monster…

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