10 Greatest Sci-Fi Thrillers of the 20th Century

10 Greatest Sci-Fi Thrillers of the 20th Century




Sci-fi movies can be grand and epic or tight and contained, made on expansive budgets that create whole entire worlds, or set somewhere familiar or even mundane; yet, they still feature some speculative or spectacular sci-fi element. It's the latter that makes up a good chunk of 20th-century sci-fi thrillers. Now what qualifies as a sci-fi thriller is a matter of some debate. While it's pretty easy to know when something is sci-fi, where the thriller elements come in is an electric horse of a different color. Thrillers are a nebulous genre of film that can cross over into many different genres, most prominently action and horror, genres that can often overshadow or even subsume the thriller elements, to the point that it no longer qualifies as such.


Sci-fi movies can be grand and epic or tight and contained, made on expansive budgets that create whole entire worlds, or set somewhere familiar or even mundane; yet, they still feature some speculative or spectacular sci-fi element. It's the latter that makes up a good chunk of 20th-century sci-fi thrillers. Now what qualifies as a sci-fi thriller is a matter of some debate. While it's pretty easy to know when something is sci-fi, where the thriller elements come in is an electric horse of a different color. Thrillers are a nebulous genre of film that can cross over into many different genres, most prominently action and horror, genres that can often overshadow or even subsume the thriller elements, to the point that it no longer qualifies as such.

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