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Collectively, the science fiction films from the 1980s have received 14 Academy Awards, 11 Saturn Awards, six Hugo Awards, five BAFTA awards, four BSFA Awards, and one Golden Globe Award. Four of these movies were the highest-grossing films of their respective years of release.
The Day After is an American television film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network. The film postulates a fictional war between the NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact over Germany that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Moria found that the movie has a promising build up, but that the film heads in predictable directions, and that its special effects were lacking. [7] Creature Feature found that the movie was an interesting morality tale, and also praised the soundtrack, but said that the use of children to play the aliens hampered the film.
Altered States is a 1980 American science fiction horror film directed by Ken Russell and adapted by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky from his 1978 novel of the same name. The novel and the film are based in part on John C. Lilly 's sensory deprivation research conducted in isolation tanks under the influence of psychoactive drugs ...
The film combines the typical themes of women in prison film with those of science fiction. The women's prison is depicted as a Soviet-style gulag . The film was the topic of a political controversy in 1992, when Senator Jesse Helms cited it as an example of indecent films that should not be broadcast by cable channels .
Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with unusual telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to ...
In Search of Tomorrow is a 2022 documentary film, written and directed by David A. Weiner. [1] [2] It takes the viewer on a year-by-year deep dive into science fiction films of the 1980s, such as Star Wars (namely The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Blade Runner, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Back to the Future, Dune, RoboCop, Aliens, Tron, WarGames ...
[8] [7] HUMO also included it on a list of the worst science-fiction movies ever made, while AlloCiné listed it as one of the worst films of the 1980s. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] An article by Screen Rant argued that Nukie should be "in the conversation" regarding what is the worst movie ever made, but that its relative obscurity to other contenders hinders ...