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

Beautifully minimal comedy short.  Has she come?

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

  • War God (1976)

See Zhan shen

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

  • War of the God Monsters (1985)

See Bicheongoesu

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’

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

Blistering Polish political fable.  Piotr Szulkin’s second film

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

A Joe Dante film.  Without all that Joe Dante stuff

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

  • WARNING FROM SPACE (1956)

See Uchûjin Tôkyô ni arawaru

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

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

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

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

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

Made in Pittsburgh.  For 2000 dollars

  • The Web of Death (1976)

See Wu du tian luo

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

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

  • Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory (1961)

See Lycanthropus

One of the most iconic SF films of all time

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

See Daikaijû no atoshimatsu

A lost civilization…in a cave

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

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

William Cameron Menzies’ Cold War thriller turned Mad Scientist film

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

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

  • The Whispering Star (2015)

See Hiso hiso boshi

  • The White Plague (1937)

See Bílá nemoc

Perhaps the funniest SF comedy ever made

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

See Alien Lover

Documentary turned SF film.  By Werner Herzog

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

Stupid fun.  But mostly just stupid

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

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

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

Even the characters don’t know how they got there

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

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

  • Wolf’s Hole (1987)

See Vlci bouda

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

Forbidden Planet copy.  With Einsteinian time distortions

Amiable post-Apocalyptic Seven Samurai

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

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

Clan battles, Kung Fu and an ancient spider monster…

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