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**Intentionally Blank** lop guest User ID: 82820 03-09-2012 10:03 PM

Intentionally Blank Wrote:

Thanks for posting 'The Quiet Earth' details Rec! I've been looking for that for years!

There's another real cracker from Down Under few have seen... it's called 'The Last Wave'. The Director is Peter Weir who also did 'Picnic at Hanging Rock'. This is one of those films which will haunt you years after you've seen it.

'The film opens with a montage of scenes of daily life in Australia in the 1970s: a rural school in the desert, the main street of an outback town, a traffic jam in the city, all being affected by unusually adverse weather conditions that suddenly appear. Only the local Aboriginals seem to recognize the cosmological significance of these weather phenomena.

During one of these "freak rainstorms" in Sydney, an altercation occurs among a group of Aboriginals in a pub, which results in the mysterious death of one of them. At the coroner's inquest, the unexplained death is ruled a homicide and four men are accused of murder. Through the Australian Legal Aid system, a lawyer is procured for their defence.

Plagued by recurring bizarre dreams, the lawyer begins to sense an "otherworldly" connection to one of the accused. He also feels connected to the increasingly strange weather phenomena besetting the city. His dreams intensify along with his obsession with the murder case (which he comes to believe is an Aboriginal tribal killing by curse, in which the victim believed). Learning more about Aboriginal practices and the concept of Dreamtime as a parallel world of existence, the lawyer comes to believe the strange weather bodes of a coming apocalypse...'

Here's part 1 on Youtube at the mo. Looks like there's other parts there as well - maybe the whole thing -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O2hTJ-s8...re=related

Rec has given me a link for this one - WELL worth checking out! :

"This is one of my all-time favorite films, and while it may move too slowly for some, it's well worth seeing. A corporate lawyer (Richard Chamberlain) is dragged into a case involving "city" Aborigines, and this is no ordinary case. OK, a man has died but it wasn't exactly a normal killing. There has also been a greater than average amount of rain lately, and the atmosphere of most of the film is somewhat claustrophobic & oppressive. The Aborigines are harboring a secret and refuse to spill the beans. This has a lot to do with white men making assumptions about "City" vs. "Tribal" Aborigines, and of course no Abo in the big city would practice tribal ways. Uh huh. Chamberlain is having strange dreams and he is somehow the key to what's happening, although no matter how many times I've seen this I can't quite grasp the exact connection. This is a very eerie and creepy film, and is a fine example of Peter Weir's ability to create tension out of nothing. The ending is a little ambiguous but I take it literally, it's the easiest way out and the scariest." (TheatreX on IMDB)

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4...ature=plcp

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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 67208 03-09-2012 10:13 PM

Wow.

Awesome thread.

Thank you.

Heartflowers

**RedShift** · (This post was last modified: 03-09-2012 10:19 PM by RedShift.)

Event Horizon was always a good watch... sci-fi horror

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd0nQUF00Sg

**SickDaveMondo**

These are some of my favourites. Most are Apocalyptic, a few are Sci-Fi and there is one that is animated (but still bad-ass).

Colossus: The Forbin Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Rq-PEW5qM

Damnation Alley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVe7p5N62ug

Guyver 2: Dark Hero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Roie47-Cuk

Demon Seed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTBzwGhH2MY

Fist of the North Star

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ixxSQrd2SI

SDM

**Richard Eldritch** · (This post was last modified: 03-09-2012 10:29 PM by Richard Eldritch.)

Great Thread Rec.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAvDwb_81...re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_7_OPfBj...re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po97Vy9s48I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HURGn2ZuQcg

**•REC** · (This post was last modified: 03-09-2012 11:08 PM by •REC.)

Courtesy of SickDaveMondo. Cheers

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Colossus - The Forbin Project

Dr. Charles A. Forbin is the chief designer of a secret government project. He and his team have built an advanced supercomputer, called "Colossus", to control all of the United States and Allied nuclear weapons systems.

Colossus is built to be impervious to any attack, encased within a mountain and powered by its own nuclear reactor. When it is activated, the President of the United States announces its existence, proudly proclaiming it a perfect defense system that will ensure peace.

Almost immediately after the broadcast ends, Colossus displays a cryptic message on its screens: "WARN: THERE IS ANOTHER SYSTEM"

All parts.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA...ature=plcp

Part 1 of 10.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQjebwUrh...re=channel

Guyver: Dark Hero

Sean Barker is mentally tortured by his transformation into the Guyver and does not know what to do with his power. He is drawn to an archaeological dig in Utah that turns out to be funded by Cronos. While there, they discover an alien ship where Sean learns about the history of humanity and the purpose of the Guyver.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUeKTyNvZjk

Demon Seed

The film begins with Dr. Alex Harris (Fritz Weaver) overseeing the completion of Proteus IV, an artificial intelligence system incorporating organic elements in a "quasi-neural matrix" and having the power of thought. After returning home to his voice-activated, computer-controlled house, Harris is approached by his estranged wife, Susan (Julie Christie), a child psychologist who tries to discuss his decision to move out. Their conversation ends in an argument when Susan accuses Alex of becoming dehumanised by his obsession with the Proteus project. After Susan has gone, Alex phones his colleague Walter Gabler (Gerrit Graham) and asks him to shut down the access terminal to Proteus that is in his home laboratory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxzfcfMgEc4

Fist of the North Star

After a global-scale nuclear war, the majority of earth's surface has become a wasteland, with most of the world's survivors fighting over the few uncontaminated food and water supplies. Kenshiro, the master of the deadly martial art Hokuto Shinken, is traveling with his fiancee Yuria (Julia in English version) when they are confronted by Ken's former friend Shin of the Nanto Seiken. After defeating Ken in combat, Shin engraves seven stab wounds on Ken's chest and leaves him for dead, taking Yuria with him. Ken's eldest brother Raoh, having witnessed the fight without intervening, returns to his dojo and challenges his Master Ryuken's decision to choose Ken as his successor over him. Raoh kills Ryuken and proclaims he will become the ruler of the new world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwnM3eMh3Q8

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 82901 03-09-2012 11:35 PM

Talking about apocalyptic, Meggido -The Omega code, (2001) with Michael York is my favorite ;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X9uleKHD...ata_player

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 03-10-2012 03:10 PM **Posts: 20,461**

Firefly

The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship.

The show explores the lives of some people who fought on the losing side of a civil war and others who now make a living on the outskirts of society, as part of the pioneer culture that exists on the fringes of their star system. In addition, it is a future where the only two surviving superpowers, the United States and China, fused to form the central federal government, called the Alliance, resulting in the fusion of the two cultures.

All episodes.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC...ature=plcp

Episode 1 - Serenity (Series Pilot)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVaKbcrOrp8

CLASSIC EPISODES

Episode 8 - Out of Gas

In a delirious state after Serenity's engine explodes, draining the ship of its oxygen supply, Mal has a series of flashbacks about how he came to own Serenity and form his crew.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGWFvIGjS...plpp_video

Episode 9 - Ariel

When the crew stops at Ariel to drop Inara off for a medical exam, Simon hires them for a job - smuggle Simon and River into a hospital so that Simon can find out what the Alliance did to River. The plan goes off without a hitch - that is, until the Alliance catches wind of the Tam siblings' presence on the planet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TZh5cYEM...plpp_video

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 03-10-2012 03:12 PM **Posts: 20,461**

The Outer Limits - Classic Episodes

The Man Who Was Never Born

A timeless time travel story, "The Man who was Never Born" is one of the best "Outer Limits" episodes. As an astronaut time warps two hundred years into the future, he meets a mutant and find's out that Earth's population has been destroyed by a plague. He travels back in time to kill the maker of the plague but finds out that the maker has not been born yet.

Part 1 of 5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnmwOq3VwuA

Demon With A Glass Hand

Alien invaders have come to conquer the Earth, but billions of people have strangely disappeared. The only man who can help is Trent, a man with a talking glass hand that directs him in his battle against the aliens. He must stop the invasion and also discover where all the humans have gone.

All parts.
http://www.youtube.com/user/snedman40/videos

Part 1 of 6.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lImaly19Yps

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 03-10-2012 03:12 PM **Posts: 20,461**

The Lone Gunmen - Pilot

While The Lone Gunmen are thwarted in their attempt to steal a computer chip by Yves Adele Harlow, John Fitzgerald Byers receives news of his father's death and the trio soon find themselves unravelling a government conspiracy in which an attempt to fly a commercial aircraft into central New York City would result in increased arms sales for the United States.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRtqQLMAZek

**blind prophet**

dawn of the dead oldie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okUMj7kZqhU

**•REC** · (This post was last modified: 03-11-2012 03:36 PM by •REC.)

Post #19, blind prophet. Cheers

Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorite movies.
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Outer Limits - Feasibility Study

Joshua Hayward and his daughter Sarah wake one morning to find a four-block section of their suburban neighbourhood surrounded by a mysterious energy barrier.

Part 1 of 5
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7j24b_...shortfilms

**•REC** · (This post was last modified: 06-08-2012 02:52 PM by •REC.)

A Boy and His Dog

In this timeline President John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt in 1963. During his terms of office and that of the other Kennedys, society concentrated on the advancement of technology instead of on the space race. Technological progress took place far faster than in our timeline, and quickly surpassed the point we are at now. Androids became common household servants in the United States before the end of the decade. Extensive research was done in the fields of extra sensory perception, telepathy, and animal intelligence, which are all proved possible.

This new form of technological race only intensified the Cold War, which had begun in June 1950 with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, eventually becoming an arms race. The world became divided along the lines of the "Western Bloc" and the "Eastern Bloc".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zabkj3FadUU

**•REC** · (This post was last modified: 08-06-2012 09:44 PM by •REC.)

Brazil

Set in an unidentified country, the film follows Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), a low-level government employee who has frequent daydreams of saving a beautiful maiden. One day he is assigned the task of trying to rectify an error caused by a fly getting jammed in a printer, which caused it to misprint a file, resulting in the incarceration and death during interrogation of Mr Archibald Buttle instead of the suspected "terrorist," Archibald "Harry" Tuttle (Robert De Niro). When Sam visits Buttle's widow, he discovers Jill Layton (Kim Greist), the upstairs neighbour of the Buttles, is the same woman as in his dreams. Jill is trying to help Mrs Buttle find out what happened to her husband, but has become sick of dealing with the bureaucracy. Unbeknownst to her, she is now considered a terrorist friend of Tuttle for attempting to report the mistake of Buttle's arrest in Tuttle's place to a bureaucracy that would not admit such an error.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ3aklt4fc8

**•REC** · (This post was last modified: 03-11-2012 05:03 PM by •REC.)

Nineteen Eighty-Four

London, chief province of Oceania, the future, 1984. Atomic war and famine has resulted in the collapse of civilization and the formation of a new totalitarian regime. The Party, led by the all-seeing presence of Big Brother, regiments life for its citizens, who are identified by number. KZ - 6090, the 35 year-old Winston Smith, has been noticed away from his designated workspace.

Along with other Party members, Winston views announcements by Big Brother on a large 'telescreen', featuring propaganda messages of productivity and news on the war. While helping his neighbours the Parsons, with a plumbing problem, Winston is accused of being a traitor by Parsons' children, who are spies for the Party's Youth League.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oNRgpr_btA