What are your favourites? I've been watching things like Total Recall, Escape from LA etc lately as I quite like them... I'm sure I've seen many, many similar films in the past but I can't recall any!

Anyone suggest any similar films - i.e. set in space or doomsday/apocalyptic etc?

Enemy Mine
Outland
Dune

Event Horizon (late 90's i believe) great film.

Aliens.

Blade Runner (1982)

Stelly

Terminator
Aliens
Star Trek 2 Wrath of Khan

Great film. I'm not usually a fan of prequels/sequels but this movie definitely deserves a prequel.

Aliens

Game over man...game over

Event Horizon was also good, can't see a prequel working tbh considering how everyone went nuts. A sequel would be good, but Anderson has spent more time butchering the Aliens, Predator and Resident Evil franchises of late .

Aliens - the Director's Cut version - autoguns

That would be the film. They test the drive, one by one they go nuts, have a giant blood orgy for the big finale, then the ship returns ready to be 'rescued' by Laurence Fishburne.

Contact
The Arrival
Predator
Sphere

Some good ones already, a few more:

Lifeforce
Akira
Gattaca
Tron
Night of the Comet
The Abyss
Ghost in the Shell
Cube
The Fifth Element

Was apparently an extra 30 mins detailing the above scenes but was chopped out and thrown away was deemed too gory and unnessecary for the story by the big wigs or something like that...damn shame i say

The Last Starfighter
V (the original series)
(Darkcity?)
Scanners

... google shows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._fiction_films

I was on about the original crew, i assumed they all went nuts at the same time, as they went with the ship into 'hell' when they activated the drive. Just don't see how you can have a film when everyone would have already been driven insane.

I think they showed it to a test audience who didn't warm to the bloody orgy scene, after that the gruesome stuff got pulled. It's a shame. Apparently Emily Booth was in there somewhere


(link courtesy of deadite66)

I don't think it's ever made clear in the original film. And who's to say that they all went insane at the same time?

Demolition Man!

Dark City

Star Wars,
Terminator,
Dune,
Alien,
Predator,

Disneys The Black Hole Actually enjoyed that film and it's still quite creepy

Space Truckers :P

This! Just for a young Sandra Bullock in tight black leggings and knee high boots.

Others:

Time Cop
Starship Troopers
Running Man
Twelve Monkeys
Terminator 1 & 2
The Fly
ET
The Abyss
Star Trek 2: TWOK
Blade Runner
Akira

DARKCITY. one of the greatest films ever made.

A couple more that I can think of:-
The Thing
Total Recall

I can't believe no one here has said the Empire Strikes back

Come on everybody remembers A New Hope, Empire and Jedi

Love some 80's Sci Fi/Fantasy

Mad Max 2
Salute to the Jugger
Robot Jox
The Quiet Earth
Steel Dawn
Rollerball (original)
Bladerunner
Cyborg
The Hidden
Dark Angel (movie not series)

Total Recall

Predator

Terminator 1 and 2

Alien and Aliens

Fortress

Species - just for the awesome alien

Strange Days