Brooklyn SciFi Celebrates Classic Movie Day


May 16th, 7:00 PM EDT

PULGASARI - CLASSIC MOVIE DAY EVENT
SATURDAY MAY 16th, 7:00 PM EDT

We're excited to announce our program for the National Classic Movie Day celebration, featuring a screening of the North Korean Sci-Fi classic Pulgasari, along with several selected future classics from the Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival, kicking off at 7:00 PM EDT on Saturday, May 16th, online, and free to all.  Please join us and add your comments to the chat.

Classic Movie Day Event Program

7:00 PM EDT I Came From The Future - A dramatic short film directed by Dave Lojek will kick off the evening of films at 7:00 PM EDT with the story of a brooding businessman who reads his own suicide note on a roof. He ponders many questions about time travel. I Came From The Future is a film from Germany provided by Apeiron Films.

7:04 PM EDTSaving Cycle - A Comedy SciFi short film directed by Kimberly DiPersia, and a Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival 2025 film selection, will be screened at 7:04 PM EDT - When his crush is tragically killed, Jake is presented with a rare opportunity to save endangered versions of her in alternate dimensions.

7:15 PM EDT - Deep Space Degenerates Marathon - We'll stream back-to-back episodes of our favorite Sci-Fi comedy program as a lead-in to the Pulgasari screening starting at 7:15 PM EDT, so if you haven't caught up on this series, now's your chance. And a reminder that Episode 005 – Running Out of Options premieres May 26th, streaming on YouTube. 

7:45 PM EDT - Pulgasari - Our feature presentation for the evening will be the cult classic sci-fi film from North Korea. Presented and open for comments and discussion.  Enjoy!

TOP 5 CLASSIC SCI-FI FILMS

THE RESULTS ARE IN! To celebrate National Classic Movie Day, we asked you to name your top five favorite classic Sci-Fi movies, limited to films before the year 2000. Here's the official top 5 films selected by our list members, followed by the top 20, and honorable mentions.  Did your films make the top 5? 

 

1. Blade Runner

2. Forbidden Planet

3. 2001 - A Space Odyssey

4. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1950)

5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1957)

6. Metropolis

7. Planet of the Apes (1968)

8. Alien

9. Star Wars (1977)

10. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan

11. The Andromeda Strain (1971)

12. The Matrix

13. The Thing (1982)

14. Godzilla (1954)

15. Silent Running

16. Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country

17. Aliens

18. Back to the Future (1985)

19. Brazil

20. Them

 

HONORABLE MENTIONS

The Empire Strikes Back

The Terminator (1984)

The Omega Man

Solaris

Soylent Green

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

E.T (1982)

I Married a Monster from Outer Space

Mothra vs. Godzilla

Return of the Jedi

Starship Troopers

They Live!

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

The Incredible Shrinking Man

The Thing from Another World

The War of the Worlds (1953)

Village of the Damned (1960)

War of the Worlds 1953

When Worlds Collide (1951)

4D Man

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Altered States

An inconvenient truth

Arrival

Avatar

Barbarella

Beasttmaster

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Crack in the World

Day of the Triffids

Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

Earth vs The Flying Saucers

Event Horizon

Explorers

Fantastic Voyage

Galaxy Quest (1999)

GATTACA

Idiocracy

Interstellar

It Came From Beneath the Sea

It Came from Outer Space

Logan’s Run

Marooned

Marvin and me

Moon

Mysterious Island

Night of the Comet

On the Silver Globe

Predator

Quatermass and the Pit (aka Five Million Years to Earth)0

Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek, the Next Generation

Tarantula

Terminator 2

The Day After Tomorrow

The Invisible Man (1933)

The Power (1968)

The Quiet Earth

The Twonky

This Island Earth

THX 1138

Thing From Another World

Things to Come (1936)

Godzilla Vs Mothra

Total Recall

Robocop

Mars Attacks

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