T he 1980s was the pinnacle for sci-fi movies, and some of the best '80s classics are quintessential examples of cinema from the decade.Though science fiction has been a popular genre since before ...

The mid to late 1970s saw the start of a new sci-fi boom, kicked off by movies like Star Wars, Alien, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Science fiction, a genre inherently about the future ...

The sci-fi genre doesn’t start or stop with the 80s though, and whilst a few of these 80s hits made it to our best sci-fi movies list, there’s a lot more on offer that you might want to check out.

The '80s were the heyday for science fiction films. The confluence of burgeoning effects artists and creative filmmakers and studios eager to capitalize on the sci-fi success of films like Star ...

1980s sci-fi films like E.T. and Aliens are some of the greatest pieces of cinema ever made, and these are the '80s films that stand as the best of the genre. Skip to main content Menu ...

As we recover from our recent bout of "Back to the Future" mania, we thought it would be fun to pick the 15 essential '80s movies that every sci-fi fanatic needs to see. aliens.

Movies like Aliens, Predator, Scanners, They Live, Videodrome, and many others prove the '80s was a defining period for sci-fi horror. But this decade didn't just bring about the best in the genre ...

In Search of Tomorrow will look at the making of such classic ’80s sci-fi movies as Back to the Future, Aliens, The Terminator and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, among many others.

The Movies We’ve Loved Since 2000: Explore 25 years of our movie coverage, and find your next film from this collection of our critics’ favorites from each year.

As arcades and computers became commonplace, audiences were ready and willing for sci-fi movies to take them away. Here are just 32 of the greatest sci-fi movies of the 1980s. 32.

Bearing the name of the legendary comics magazine, the 1981 sci-fi anthology Heavy Metal was to '80s moviegoers what shows like Love, Death & Robots are for the streaming age.

And when people say "they don't make movies like they used to," they are probably referring to the 1980s. Before CGI became mainstream in the 1990s, horror and sci-fi had to rely on good old ...