4:45 - Catherine Mary Stewart was never in Flight of the Navigator. You're probably thinking of 1984's The Last Starfighter.

"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.

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.

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.

Forgot to mention the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. It’s a rather bizarre yet wildly entertaining gem.

Ah the Wraith. I remember coming across this movie way back in the early 90s when i was still a kid. Sherrilyn Fenn, 😍

Catherine Mary Stewart was not in “flight of the navigator”, she was in “The Last Starfighter”. Not much else.

Bill Paxton's curly mullet was absolutely glorious. Game over man!

Night of The Comet is a masterpiece!!!! I saw Ice Pirates in theaters when I was a kid. Great memories.

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.

I’m soooooo shocked The Wraith is sooooo unpopular. An amazing movie. Top 10 movie to watch ever.

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. 😕

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.

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.

The Ice Pirates was a mainstay of mine as a kid. LOVED that movie and still do!

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!

Catherine Mary Stuart wasn't in 'Flight of the Navigator', Sarah Jessica Parker was. CMS was in the last Star Fighter though.

The wraith is less about Charlie Sheen and more about "cousin Eddie" as a police officer ....his performance was awesome.

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...one of my all time favorites. When I saw it, I watched it on vhs. Time flies.

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.

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.

Miracle Mile is an amazing hidden gem, i would also add the underrated film Society (1989).

Ice Pirates is an addictive movie because you can tell the cast had so much fun making it.

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...

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?

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!

The Hidden with Kyle Maclcahlan and Michael Nouri was Awesome .1987 .

Killer Klowns from outer space , has to have beennone of the best Sci fi films from the 1980s definitely my favourite 😂😂😂

Excellent list! I remember Looker and Liquid Sky blowing my mind when I was a kid.

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!

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!

One obscure one that you missed was Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone, (1982)... check that one out...

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.

Miracle Mile was amazing.

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!!

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.

When you guys make lists like this I would greatly appreciate if you could add where we can watch it.

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.

The Wraith( )One of the best of late night 80's cable.

Liquid Sky is a seriously trippy movie. I saw it years ago in one of Toronto's retro theatres.

The Wraith is one of my favorite movies, as well as Ice Pirates

Boy, I had no life back in the 80s. I think I've seen them all.

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.

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

Of the 6 of these I've seen, Miracle Mile is BY FAR the best!

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.

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.

The Wraith & Night of the Comet are both awesome!

Catherine Mary Stewart was my teenage crush. She still looks amazing.

Virus is an amazing movie and ice pirates is one of my guilty pleasure films for farts and giggles.

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

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...

Wow, great list of gems!!

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 would add Repo Man to the lisr.

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

Night of the Comet is one of my all time favs.

virus just sounds like a 2020-22 documentary at least from your description

Looker is such a great movie! Same with The Wraith!

The Hidden. My favorite hidden gem(no pun intended) of the 80s.

That digital "presenter" in "Looker" is reminiscent of the TV show "Max Headroom."

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

The 80's were the golden age of this time period as someone once warned beyond 1984 nothing would be as it should appear...

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.

Great list!

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.

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

Night of the comet and miracle Mile are awesome!

Battle beyond the stars. Literally The Magnificent 7 in outer space. Including Robert Vaughan playing the same role

Katherine Mary Stewart was NOT in Flight of the Navigator as mentioned in this video. She was however in the scifi classic...The Last Starfighter.

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.

The best sci-fi movie that's not on this list is "The Hidden" (1987) with Kyle MacLachlan. Another one of those alien movies where if you explain the plot you'll spoil it. I will also recommend "Alien Nation" (1988), which is a little self-important, but if you put silliness like "The Wraith" on this list, then I feel better about it.

NICE LIST ! cheers xx

Ice Pirates should be rebooted . That really could be a comedy franchise.

The writers for these shows never went to a video store as a kid and never ever ever picked out a movie based just on the box cover

I remember most of these. They were fun!

You forgot one of the greatest Genre Mashing “Quest” sci-fis ever - CHERRY 2000

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.

Pretty sure that Catherine Mary Stewart was in Last Starfighter NOT Flight of the Navigator.

All very good movies that when they are on i watch again and again

9:38 Virus. Man. Talk about predictive programming. O_O I gotta see this movie now.

Miracle mile is excellent...... night of the comet is peak 80s movie..... defcon 5 is pretty great

we see slipstream all the time on roku's b-movie tv - such a weird fun little film! love Bill Paxton ❤

Virus is also the film that introduced many people to the music of Janis Ian, who scored the film.

Michael Crichton also wrote “COMA”

The list is missing 'Society' from 1989.

I remember the ending of Miracle Mile from watching it as a kid, but I could never remember the name of the movie. I also had it in my mind that D.B. Sweeney was the main character and not Anthony Edwards. Always got them two confused.

Looker was great!! What about Scanners?? Or night of the creeps?

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.

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.

I've seen The Wraith, which is good, Ice Pirates, which is fun and silly and Night of the Comet which is cheesey at best. May need to keep my eye out for some of the others on this list.

Looker and Ice Pirates are pure fun.

Good list.

Love Slipstream. You missed Brazil, by Terry Gilliam, though.

Good list

What film is the thumbnail image from? Did I miss that character in the countdown?

Love the Tangerine Dream score for Miracle Mile. The movie itself annoyed me. Great plot, but the characters kept doing dumb things. A great 80’s Sci-Fi hidden gem is the film The Quiet Earth. It is New Zealand’s first fully produced Sci-Fi film and released to the world. Great little film!

1:09 Mark Hamill was Michael Biehn-ing his heart out in that movie...

Eveyone of these movies are great!