The Best Small Science Fiction Movies I Saw This Year

[@salty-walt]

I think I saw you mention most of these in their original videos, but I love that you gave me a year and compilation!! There are times you forget to go back and re-watch a 40 minute video from 8 months ago but here you are organizing it into a way to remind me to see which of my streaming services might have these right now!! You are awesome. Thank you.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Glad I can help out there, Walt. Have a great 2025, mate.

[@HughMacLeod42]

I have tremendous respect for your attention to science fiction. Sci Fi Saturday is great. Thank you.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Thanks so much, Hugh. I like covering a lot of different films and dramas but I'm a science fiction fan at heart.

[@RamZar50]

“Mars Express” (2023) is a great animated sci-fi movie with various themes. My copy was a digital purchase which includes both French and English audio.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Nice! Well worth owning a copy of.

[@RamZar50]

@@terrytalksmovies If you haven’t watched “Fantastic Planet” (1973) lately you should watch it again. It’s just a fantastic animated sci-fi and ultimately the peaceful coexistence of two species. It was a French and Czech co-production.

[@iandavies9408]

Great episode! Your enthusiasm and love of the media are inspiring! Have a grand new year!

[@terrytalksmovies]

You, too, Ian.

[@adambenton9673]

Bangin' list, sir. All of those I've seen are top-shelf (mad love for The Substance and Mars Express) and the rest are gonna make great homework. I Saw Nosferatu Xmas night and was blown away, can't wait to hear your take.

[@terrytalksmovies]

We get Nosferatu on January 1st. I'll be heading down to the Sun in Yarraville to check it out soon after.

[@timothybarnett1006]

All the ones I've seen from your list, _Mars Express, The Substance_ and _Megan_ are excellent, so I'll probably try and hunt the other ones down, _Kalki 2898AD_ been on Netflix will be the easiest to check out. Regardless of the World situation, hope you have a great New Year

[@terrytalksmovies]

You too, Timothy. Have a great 2025.

[@MiddleAgedGeekGrrrl]

It would be great if you look at doing modern SF along with the older ones. We have to help nostalgia wonks move into the 21st century! 😊❤

[@terrytalksmovies]

I already do that!

[@MiddleAgedGeekGrrrl]

@ 😝

[@foursail100]

Hi Terry! I wanted to thank you for recommending Danger Diabolik. I watched it last night and thought it was fantastic. It is a real "hidden gem"!

[@terrytalksmovies]

My pleasure. It's such a groovy movie. If you want to match it, try Elio Petri's The 10th Victim. 😀

[@foursail100]

@@terrytalksmovies I will check it out. Thanks!

[@dogzdad123]

Terry: Interesting choice of films this time around. It seems that "evil" AI is today's "Boogie-Man". Films like " Colossus: The Forbin Project", Terminator/Skynet, and the recent Mission Impossible installment seem to focus on the dangers of AI. Whatever happened to the simpler stuff like "the Red Scare", giant irradiated bugs, and nasty ETs?

[@terrytalksmovies]

Those three were moral panics not real threats. AI is a genuine threat. 😀😉

[@brettcoster4781]

I love Landscape with an Invisible Hand, Mars Express, and Megan. And I'll keep my eye open for the others.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Good hunting, Brett. Kalki is on Netflix if that's any help.

[@rautakallio1852]

Mars Express is the only one I've seen so far and it was excellent. There are some great older French animated Science fiction films out there. Les Maîtres du temps (Time masters), Gandahar and Fantastic Planet come to mind.

[@terrytalksmovies]

I covered Time Masters previously. It's a hell of a good film.

[@jackfriend4u]

would love it if the powers that be would finally release 'Time Masters' and 'Gandahar' on Blu-ray!

[@fredmoss3515]

enlightening video content .... Thanks Terry .... its what we need .... and te Human part.

[@terrytalksmovies]

My pleasure, Fred. Have a great 2025.

[@taker68]

Haven't seen any of these although i've heard of some. All sound interesting. Got to catch up. I was talking to a friend into sci-fi about how outer space is done to death and the genre should focus on the inner. How tech has changed us, how it's hard to know what's real anymore. I do love dystopian stories but they are done to death. Star Trek started the the optimistic 60s and i suppose we lost that feeling of hope for the future. Such a shame. I've read an essay by a European writer who said he visited the US in the 70s and then again recently and noted how we lost our optimistic, can do attitude.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Optimism is its own reward, pessimism is its own punishment. The future is unknowable but I want interesting ideas about it in my science fiction.

[@Brianfromtenn]

I want to see all of these. Have you seen Pulse with Madeline Stowe and Misha Barton?

[@terrytalksmovies]

No. Is it recommended?

[@Brianfromtenn]

@terrytalksmovies It's a good story. Think Bunny Lake Is Missing meets The Hills Have Eyes

[@maxpayne2574]

With you on the dystopian/post- apocalypse the genre has been done to death.

[@terrytalksmovies]

Yeah, I'm over it. It's a weird, negative wish fulfillment genre at this stage.

[@brianelliott577]

I just watched Jules. Beautiful movie ! Moving, funny and unique. Thank you for your recommendation. Loved it !

[@terrytalksmovies]

I'm always happy to help, Brian. 😀

[@brewstergallery]

Bloody fantastic as always Terry. Lots of love and hope you have a spectacular New Year from your fuzzy fans in Mallorca ! All the best to MAGG, Luna and Lucy (?). We would love to see some 1960's obscurities. See ya next time !

[@terrytalksmovies]

It's Jill. Have a great 2025 Mallorca New Year, too!

[@MiddleAgedGeekGrrrl]

Thank you! Back ‘atcha 😊

[@RamZar50]

“The Substance” was one of my favorite movies released in 2024. Wildly creative! The last 20 minutes or so it went too far with the Frankensteinish skit. There’s something about Paris-born French female directors with some highly creative albeit cringe-worthy movies. *Coralie Fargeat* - The Substance (2024) - Revenge (2017) *Julia Ducournau* - Titane (2021) - Raw (2016)

[@terrytalksmovies]

It's probably an evolution of the New French Extremity movement of the early 2000s. Great stuff. I want to see what Coralie Fargeat comes up with next.

[@Stewart118Tyler]

Re: Kalki 2898AD. Thank You!!

[@terrytalksmovies]

My pleasure, Stewart. That's what I try to do with the channel. Steer people toward cool stuff.

[@Stewart118Tyler]

@terrytalksmovies never a letdown. You are appreciated.

[@joshuacloud7724]

I watched the original Pulse and then the U.S. remake. I’m going to have to swear off American remakes of films from other countries. How does Hollywood, nine times out of ten, downgrade great stories from every corner of the globe and turn them into, at best, pedestrian viewing experiences?

[@terrytalksmovies]

They're milking the cash cow. That's the simple answer about US remakes.

[@MISHKINPUSH]

Great selection of movies. Thanks!

[@terrytalksmovies]

My pleasure. Happy 2025. 😀

[@tamaraclaw]

I watched "Lanscape with Invisible Hand"--somewhat of a downer ending, but an enjoyable film

[@terrytalksmovies]

The downer ending has a ray of light to it, but it's an honest little movie.

[@grantman7181]

once again great reviews gonna look for pulse japanese verision I know you probably don't regard Bradburys the illustrated man as good I found it very interesting grant from canada

[@terrytalksmovies]

The Illustrated Man is weird and a bit timid, IMHO.

[@timeliebe]

The science fiction movie you hate the most in the universe was a modestly budgeted film originally, costing half as much as the can't miss success of 1977, DAMNATION ALLEY!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@terrytalksmovies]

I hate it because it's simplistic, with a binary moral code, it stole ideas, images and characters from much better films and it led to the infantilisation of cinema science fiction for decades.

[@SnarkNSass]

This was Lovely 😁

[@terrytalksmovies]

Thanks so much. 😀

[@Nedski42YT]

Alien: Romulus. No spoilers but there are face-huggers, chest-bursters, a xenomorph, then dozens of xenomorphs. Spoiler. This time there are teenagers!

[@terrytalksmovies]

So it's Porky's meets Alien? 😉😀

[@Nedski42YT]

@@terrytalksmovies Not a complex story as in Porky's and no Kim Kim Cattrall!

[@fredmoss3515]

its an ok movie .... but the real horror tension was lost after the original.

[@mhump23]

Megan was horrible. One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen

[@terrytalksmovies]

You need to see more movies. 🙂