Obscure '80s Sci-Fi Hidden Gems You Need To Watch Before You Die
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- CGI spokesmodels hawk housewares, "Indiana Jones" meets "Mad Max" in space, and an accidental phone call warns of nuclear war… or does it? You won't want to miss these '80s sci-fi gems.
#SciFi #80s #Gems
Slipstream | 0:00
Battle Beyond the Stars | 1:17
Liquid Sky | 2:17
The Wraith | 3:25
Night of the Comet | 4:24
Looker | 5:28
The Ice Pirates | 6:37
Miracle Mile | 7:40
Virus | 8:42
Le Dernier Combat | 9:56
Voiceover By: Dexter Manning
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4:45 - Catherine Mary Stewart was never in Flight of the Navigator. You're probably thinking of 1984's The Last Starfighter.
Glad someone mentioned this. I thought I was going mad! Editor clearly over worked. 😂
Someone neglected to do proper research, Sarah Jessica Parker was in Flight of the Navigator.
"Miracle Mile" is one of the most criminally underrated and unknown movies ever. I ALWAYS recommend it and have never had anyone watch it and hate it.
One of my personal favorites. Very clever, funny, sweet, strange, and dark, all interwoven in an extremely natural way. Hard to compare it to any other movie. Singular. Definitely the kind of movie you can watch once a year or so and appreciate in new and different ways. Also an excellent Tangerine Dream soundtrack.
Miracle Mile is a wondaful film. ❤
MM is without question the best of the lot presented in this puff piece video.
Well, damn, there's a core memory unlocked. There was a movie that was always on cable that I watched several times when I was a kid. I couldn't remember the name but the ending is seared into my memory.
Do you have any alternative suggestions for this category? I'm always looking for new recommendations like this. Thanks! @@MisterG2323
Night of The Comet is a masterpiece!!!! I saw Ice Pirates in theaters when I was a kid. Great memories.
Ice Pirates is here on youtube for free, with ads of course.
@@thebluestig2654 I actually found a dvd of it several years ago. Thank you for the heads up though!
never seen ads on youtube but they're doing something to work around blocking ad blockers. i think by next year we'll all be forced through. in which time a good chunk of viewers will leave youtube but they don't care.@@thebluestig2654
Thanks for covering these. I added them to my list of sci fi movies to watch. For me, THE WRAITH and MIRACLE MILE were both great movies that were so underrated at the time.
Bill Paxton's curly mullet was absolutely glorious.
Game over man!
I love Night Of The Comet and Miracle Mile. I even got lucky enough to see Miracle Mile on the big screen when it released. Both are great.
Night of the Comet! I saw that on Night Flight back in the 80's and it was amazing.
The one guy in Night of The Comet, I can't remember his characters name or the actors name either, that was also in the original 1983 Valley Girl is the same actor who played Uncle Jack in the last couple seasons of Breaking Bad, that about flipped me out when I read it.
@@dukecraig2402 the actor's name is Jack Welker, according to Fandom.
Just recently seen Night of the Comet on Tubi .. I was born in 1984, and I’ve seen thousands upon thousands of movies and films .. I own hundreds! How did this gem fly under my radar for the last 39 years?
@@clstile IDK. But it happens all the time. If you like a good mystery suspense and you can look past pop culture spoiling a twist before seeing a movie, Soylent Green is actually a great film.
Miracle Mile...one of my all time favorites. When I saw it, I watched it on vhs. Time flies.
The Quiet Earth is a decent film from New Zealand. Doesn’t rely heavily on sci-fi but uses it as more of an exploration of characters and how they react to being the last people on earth. Poignant film.
I saw this one in the late 90s. I liked it but missed the start so didn't understand exactly what had happened. By chance I found it on DVD at a garage sale and was able to watch the whole thing. I still enjoy it. As a child of the 80s I am sad to say I haven't seen any of the movies in mentioned. I might have to see what I can dig up.
Really good film I like how the tone changes in different acts going along with the main characters emotions the end is stunning I just wish it didnt end at thr best part lol
Night of the Comet is in my all time top ten. Me and my friends said the quote “ I’m not crazy, I just don’t give a fuck!” for years after this movie came out.
Same!!
Ah the Wraith. I remember coming across this movie way back in the early 90s when i was still a kid. Sherrilyn Fenn, 😍
You neglected to mention that "Battle Beyond The Stars" is actually a Sci-fi reskin of The Magnificent Seven, which (in its current Denzel-led incarnation) is a remake of a classic Western of the same name, which is ITSELF a reskin of the Akira Kurosawa epic The Seven Samurai. One fun fact about Battle Beyond The Stars being a Magnificent Seven (1960) remake is that it stars Robert Vaughn playing an almost identical character to the one he played in 1960. Also the planet they are defending is called "Akir" - a clear callout to Kurosawa himself, without whom the story likely never would have been told in the first place.
And John Boy Walton obviously!
So the dude narrating probably grew up on tellytubbies. 😂
And here come the "you forgot my personal favorites on your list" comments.
@ekulyarg What? Teletubbies? I feel pretty certain the dude that made this video knows what The Magnificent Seven and Seven Samurai are, they're seminal classics.
lol they race flipped magnificent seven? that's so cute.
The Ice Pirates was a mainstay of mine as a kid. LOVED that movie and still do!
Forgot to mention the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. It’s a rather bizarre yet wildly entertaining gem.
First time I ever heard my mom swear was talking about this movie and she couldn't get the name right. "Buckafucka motherfucka..."
I own a DVD copy of "Liquid Sky" my ex got for me for Christmas one year. He said it was not easy to find...weird I mentioned that movie once to him, talking about the main actress. I was shocked he not only remembered it, but found a copy of it for me!
I sold a copy of Liquid Sky on VHS for $70 on ebay several years ago.
One of the coolest VHS tapes I've owned, but the movie just isn't for me, couldn't even get through it.... and I tend to like weird movies.
I have the soundtrack album on LP. Varese Saraband.
@@GreyMatterPlatter Watched it for the first time tonight and my curiosity (I have to know how things end once it's started) made me finish it. I have never heard such an amount of weird disharmonic and strange music in a movie, apart from maybe Andromeda Strain whose soundtrack is just abrasive computer noises. The entire movie gave me weird and creepy vibes and i didn't like it.
I’m soooooo shocked The Wraith is sooooo unpopular. An amazing movie. Top 10 movie to watch ever.
Ice pirates and Wraith were both great movies I remember watching as a young man in the 80s. I was young but had 2 older brothers so i got to watch grown up movies alot.
The movie Virus had such an implausible story. There's no way a manufactured virus could escape a lab and cause a worldwide pandemic. It could never happen. 😕
When fiction meets reality.
nope didnt you know it was from BaTs. get with the social programming. or be detained indefinitely.
I'm so glad LOOKER is on this list. Criminally underrated. If you only see one from this list, it should be LOOKER.
This movie predicted so much of modern day tech impact on consumerism. A must see.
I would add a movie that most people have never even heard of at all but which I found quite entertaining for the time ('83) called "Wavelength". Stars Robert Carradine, Cherie Currie (singer from The Runaways), and Keenan Wynn. It's also another score by Tangerine Dream. Under 90 minutes it wasn't a deep story, but sure as hell was better than "Battle Beyond the Stars" or even "Ice Pirates". It was in heavy rotation on cable at one point, but pretty sure it fell into total obscurity because it never got a home video release (probably disagreements about rights).
Glad to see "Looker" and "Night of the Comet" on the list. Two of my favorite hidden-gem/guilty pleasures!
Deathwatch(1980) with Romy Schneider, Harvey Kietel and Harry Dean Stanton is one that's not anyone' radar as well, but should be
Ice Pirates is an addictive movie because you can tell the cast had so much fun making it.
I have a young friend that I made him watch it. He is shocked how it was back then. He was like "you watched this as a kid?".
Yup
That was the 80's.
SPACE herpes!
I was already a massive fan of Miracle Mile, but I never thought a B-movie like Night of the Comet would be so extraordinarily entertaining. I just saw it---it's awesome, and I don't understand why. There's no gore, a typical 80s cityscape, and cheesy 80s music---yet it's entertaining from start to finish; somehow it all works together--so much so that a big budget would have killed it. This is a truly classic example of what makes a cult movie, and it's not even horror-certified, has a PG! This movie shouldn't work...
Great list- perhaps neither “overlooked,” nor “gems,” but I’d add Dreamscape (Dennis Quaid) & Runaway (Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons!?!?) to the must-see list!
Excellent list! I remember Looker and Liquid Sky blowing my mind when I was a kid.
Watched 4 of these movies tonight, first Liquid Sky, then The Wraith, then Looker and then Miracle Mile. I would put them in reverse order in terms of quality so I am glad my movie night only got better, because Liquid Sky is such a piece of crap xD Miracle Mile is quite the movie! No idea why I have never heard of it!
Catherine Mary Stewart was not in “flight of the navigator”, she was in “The Last Starfighter”. Not much else.
Not much else? She has 77 acting credits listed on IMDB, she's still acting in current stuff.
@@thebluestig2654 I said “much”. That’s not “nothing else”.
@@turbopokey 77 credits, that's way more than "not much else".
Looker is soo forgotten, but my brother and I remember watching it on HBO. Besides the predictive nature of the film (virtual models and computer generated content), there's this hypno gun that is the main part anyone who's seen the movie remembers; there's a car chase where one of the parties is using the gun, and since it makes you blank out for a couple seconds after exposure, the scene has what seem like jump cuts to one of the cars going off the road, or driving down stairs!
Young Sherlock Holmes was the first film to have an actual CGI character - Lookers 'CGI' was technically just a 3D model presented on a screen. The one in Young Sherlock Holmes (a stained glass window of a knight that comes to life) interacts with the characters as the camera pans around it.
Miracle Mile is an amazing hidden gem, i would also add the underrated film Society (1989).
Watched them both for the first time tonight. For both I feel like that Science Fiction means something different to me. Miracle Mile just drew me in, great movie! And Society... well... more like a documentary xD
@@im3phirebird81 👍
One obscure one that you missed was Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone, (1982)... check that one out...
I strongly advise against that, I saw it in the cinema at the time
So did I... I very much enjoyed it...
The wraith is less about Charlie Sheen and more about "cousin Eddie" as a police officer ....his performance was awesome.
Wow, great list of gems!!
The Hidden with Kyle Maclcahlan and Michael Nouri was Awesome .1987 .
Some good calls there, I've seen about half of them, Le Dernier Combat screened as part of a Post Apocalyptic series screened on BBC 2 I think, which also included A Man and His Dog with Don Johnson, I think that was in 87/88 as I was in uni at the time and I've not seen either since, but they were sufficiently memorable for me to recall them 36 years later!!
A boy and his dog was great for a super low budget movie.
A Man and His Dog (1975)
Liquid Sky is a seriously trippy movie. I saw it years ago in one of Toronto's retro theatres.
Catherine Mary Stuart wasn't in 'Flight of the Navigator', Sarah Jessica Parker was. CMS was in the last Star Fighter though.
Yes another person who knows their 80s films better than this millennial course work project.
Great list!
I remember watching Ice Pirates on TNT, that came after Cartoon Network. I really liked that movie. It is filled with interesting and funny scenes and characters.
it's on youtube for free is you miss it
The Wraith( )One of the best of late night 80's cable.
NICE LIST ! cheers xx
Miracle Mile was amazing.
Nice video, very informative. I'll always remember 'the ice pirates' because it was the last movie I saw at the cinema in Newport Pagnell. The two darling old ladies that ran the cinema gave it up not long after, and another lovely provincial cinema in Britain disappeared. So sad.
Boy, I had no life back in the 80s. I think I've seen them all.
Slipstream was great.. it's unfortunate that so few seem to have seen it.
Flight of the Navigator is a wonderful flick.. it's awesome.
Looker was really good and filled with cool ideas
and.. EVERYONE SHOULD SEE Ice Pirates.. honestly, it's so sublime and weird and outstanding.
good call on Looker, seems like nobody remembers that one ))
I saw Slipstream when it was new and hated it. Prolly because I wanted Hamil to be Luke. I saw it recently and thought it was great. Funny how expectations and time change your sensibilities.
The Wraith is one of my favorite movies, as well as Ice Pirates
I absolutely adore "Night of the Comet". Takes me right back to being a teenager when I watch it! "Ice Pirates" is awful, and I love it.
Killer Klowns from outer space , has to have beennone of the best Sci fi films from the 1980s definitely my favourite 😂😂😂
Good list.
Good list
Night of the comet was awesome but one thing…. Katherine Mary Stewart wasn’t in flight of the navigator. She was in the last star fighter. Sarah Jessica Parker was in Navigator.
Yo, SlipStream has to be the movie I've had in the back of my mind for decades. All I remembered wad Bill Paxton in the future in some desert cliff dwelling. I thought I was confusing it with Cherry 2000. Or was it 3000?
Le Dernier Combat is a brilliant film and fully illustrates the cinematic principle that one should be able to watch a good movie without the soundtrack, and still understand it. Since there is only one word of dialogue in the movie, it requires that we bring something to the interpretation of the story. I found that I had a interpretation of some scenes different from the other people watching it with me, each of who had their own ideas. In my opinion, probably Besson's best film.
Looker is such a great movie! Same with The Wraith!
Of the 6 of these I've seen, Miracle Mile is BY FAR the best!
Night of the Comet is one of my all time favs.
The Wraith & Night of the Comet are both awesome!
Starman is also another must watch from the 80s
A eclectic bunch with very little in common with each other. A few of these are mainstream, most range the gamut from art-house to indie to kitsch. I saw almost all of these in the theater (except Virus and Le Dernier Combat), and of all of these, Miracle Mile and Looker felt like, if not could-be-blockbusters at the time, at least solid movies that were on par with almost everything else at the time. But this whole video rewarded me with a movie I hadn't heard of, Le Dernier Combat. Awesome.
Some look pretty good. Sliostream,Beyond the Stars,Liquid Sky,The Wreith,Night of the Comet,Looker. We have CGI characters too. Real television will be filled by CGI characters,hosts,tv shows. Amazing what technology can do. La Derniere Combat looks pretty cool. Virus too. Ice Pirates very nice too😊 Shame they didn't get attention. They look pretty good
Night of the comet and miracle Mile are awesome!
Oh, some of my favorite movies. Battle Beyond the Stars was another Seven Samurai inspired movie, or so it seems. Then there's Ice Pirates, with the full 80s sci-fi campiness. Good times...
I remember most of these from watching them in the 80's and have re-watched a few of them more recently as well, I'll try to find the others.
I just re-watched Looker a month or two ago on Tubi ( I think). Albert Finney did Wolfen that same year and both are favorites of mine from weekend re-runs in the late 80s
Virus was very interesting and well thought.
1:09 Mark Hamill was Michael Biehn-ing his heart out in that movie...
I remember most of these. They were fun!
I would add Repo Man to the lisr.
The Hidden. My favorite hidden gem(no pun intended) of the 80s.
Liquid Sky wasn't meant to compete with Blade Runner or any major Hollywood film, it was the epitome of a small-budget arthouse film and had a very limited release.
Night of the comet f’d me up as a kid. Not bad because I loved horror then and still do, but it just stuck with me. It’s creepy as hell but whimsical too. Love that movie.
9:38 Virus. Man. Talk about predictive programming. O_O I gotta see this movie now.
What the hell I watched all these in theater or in the foreign film theater and loved them Thanks for reminding me to go rewatch them this weekend
Tobe Hoober's "Lifeforce" from is also a cool film. It has Patrick Stewart and space vampires. It's a pretty weird movie. Not for prudes though, as there's sexy space vampires
Eveyone of these movies are great!
C.H.U.D. was a superb movie, and it became true in a way.
we see slipstream all the time on roku's b-movie tv - such a weird fun little film! love Bill Paxton ❤
6:48 nice to see Bill Hader was starring in 80s sci fi movies
All very good movies that when they are on i watch again and again
BBS was 1 of my favorite kids movies and I would demand to see it at least monthly the year it was released on VHS
@4:47 Catherine Mary Stewart wasn’t in Flight of the Navigator. She was in The Last Starfighter and Weekend at Bernie’s.
Ice Pirates should be rebooted . That really could be a comedy franchise.
Love Slipstream. You missed Brazil, by Terry Gilliam, though.
I think Brazil is kinda sorta regarded as a film many sci-fi and dystopia fans have heard of already. Many of these films haven't been heard about by anyone who wasn't alive and going to the movies when these were in cinemas.
Battle Beyond the Stars - I've always liked this movie. If for no other reason, you should watch it to see the original movie that all of the space footage in Corman's other movies was created for.
Liquid Sky - I started watching this once, but only made it about ten minutes in before the movie's style turned me off.
Night of the Comet - "See? That's the problem with these things. Daddy would have gotten us Uzis." :)
Looker - I always found it ironic that the evil corporation was using computer generated actors on real sets, while in real life, it's much easier to create and animate objects than it is to create and animate people.
Okay, I may give Slipstream a shot. Battle Beyond the Stars (7 Samurai in Space) iis a bit of a classic. George Pappard & John Saxon!! That's right. The Wraith is a neat little car movie with the soon to be everywhere anti-hero. Night of the Comet is also fun. However my favorite on this list is easily Ice Pirates. Pimp Robot should be something more well known.
Night of the comet - the best on this list!!! At least for me!
Coming out hot with Slipstream 😮
Looker and Ice Pirates are pure fun.
Battle beyond the stars. Literally The Magnificent 7 in outer space. Including Robert Vaughan playing the same role
Interesting i have seen 6 of them and they are good. 4 i have not seen but look worthy of checking out at some point is LOOKER, MIRACLE MILE, Virus & Le Dernier Combat.
The 80's were the golden age of this time period as someone once warned beyond 1984 nothing would be as it should appear...
virus just sounds like a 2020-22 documentary
at least from your description
Looker was great!!
What about Scanners??
Or night of the creeps?
The Ice Pirates. Had that on VHS.
i remember and loved the Wraith
You forgot one of the greatest Genre Mashing “Quest” sci-fis ever - CHERRY 2000
Miracle Mile was released a year too late, after the cold war basically ended. Had it been released in 87-88 it would have been even more terrifying. Still an amazing film tho, great movie. And Looker, pfffft the music, cast and story line all amazing.
Catherine Mary Stewart was my teenage crush. She still looks amazing.
4:46
hey, they weren't alien zombies...
That digital "presenter" in "Looker" is reminiscent of the TV show "Max Headroom."
Slipstream. Another movie that went under my radar. Or should I say, slipped under it amirite
When you guys make lists like this I would greatly appreciate if you could add where we can watch it.
"A man made virus that is inadvertently released and subsequently causes a massive pandemic, resulting in riots and widespread civil unrest"
Me while rolling my eyes super hard: "Yeah, that would never happen"