A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) (2001)
Android Boy’s Quest
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Virus from Space/Michael Crichton Adaptation
Anna M. (2007)
Female Stalker
The Birds (1963)
Birds Attack Humanity
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Cyberpunk Future/Androids
Cape Fear (1962)
Ex-Con’s Revenge Thriller
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Haunting/Deathdream
Cat People (1942)
Human-Feline Transformation/Psychological Ambiguity
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Future Thugs/Brainwashing
Code 46 (2003)
Dystopian Future
Cosmopolis (2012)
Vision of Near-Future Social Collapse
Creator (1985)
Cloning and the Meaning of Life
The Creator (2023)
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Day of the Dead (1985)
Zombies
The Day of the Triffids (1981)
The Downfall of Civilisation/Lethal Plants Amok
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Precognition
Eraserhead (1977)
Surrealist Weirdness
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958)
Jules Verne Adaptation/Steampunk
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Angels
The Fisher King (1991)
Modern-Day Grail Quest
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Alien Artefacts/Monster from the Subconscious
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947)
Ghost-Mortal Friendship
Halloween (1978)
Slasher Film
Ichi the Killer (2001)
Sadism and Ultra-Violence
The Innocents (1961)
Psychological Ghost Story
Interstellar (2014)
Space Expedition
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Alien Duplication and Takeover
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Post-Holocaust Action
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Post-Holocaust Action
Midnight Mass (2021)
Vampires and Religion
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
Giant Ape
Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Anime/Post-Holocaust Environmentalism
NEKRomantik (1987)
Necrophilia
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Zombies
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Disfigured Madman Beneath the Opera House
Poltergeist (1982)
Haunting
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Tomb Raiding Adventures
Sea of Love (1989)
Psycho-Thriller/Romance
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Child Medium
Strings (2004)
World of Puppets
Superman (1978)
Comic-Book Superhero
The Tree of Life (2011)
Lost American Childhood/The Evolution of Life on Earth
Twin Peaks (1990)
Smalltown Weirdness/Murder Mystery
Ultraviolet (1998)
Vampire Hunters
Up (2009)
Pixar Animation/Old Man Goes on an Adventure
Vampyr (1932)
Vampire/Uncanny Dread
The Vanishing (1988)
Psycho-Thriller/Unexplained Disappearance
Videodrome (1983)
Reality-Manipulating TV
Wall-E (2008)
Pixar Animation/Lonely Robot