SCI FI LONDON Film Festival

🎥 🛸 where WHAT IF meets WTF.
Next festival: 13 - 17 May 2026, Rich Mix
48hr Film challenge: 25 April 26

[SCI FI LONDON Film Festival @scifilondon]

⭐🥳 And that's a wrap! A huge thank you to all our partners, sponsors, our brilliant volunteers who help us put on the festival, the audience and the film makers!

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The opening of BLADE RUNNER 2049 (2017) is among the most visually stunning sequences in science fiction.

That enormous orange landscape looks almost otherworldly, but Roger Deakins didn’t simply create the color in post. He and Denis Villeneuve built the look through extensive camera and lighting tests, using specially made filters, colored lighting and real locations to create that strange, dusty atmosphere in-camera.

Even the opening was assembled from different pieces of real photography and visual effects, including aerial footage shot high above Mexico City. Deakins wanted the world to feel futuristic but still grounded in places that could actually exist, drawing inspiration from real landscapes and environmental imagery.

And that’s what makes those first few minutes so powerful. Before the story has even properly begun, Villeneuve and Deakins have already made the future feel vast, lonely and strangely beautiful.

[Humanoid History @HumanoidHistory]

"Star Trek: The Next Generation" premiered on this day in 1987.

[UK Anime Network @ukanime]

The Prince Charles cinema is screening a Studio Ghibli all-nighter on Saturday November 28th - 5 films back to back! Details and link to tickets:

https://t.co/6hhcrLojZN

#StudioGhibli #Anime #AnimeNews #Film #Cinema

[Midlands Movies @MidlandsMovies]

The Back to the Future trilogy has landed on BBC iPlayer and we recommend checking out the first film for many techniques that up-and-coming filmmakers can learn from

https://t.co/FztgZuqrlE

[Humanoid History @HumanoidHistory]

Ron Cobb's original "Alien" signage, made with felt tip pen and graph paper.

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Today, we celebrate Muppet creator Jim Henson’s 90th birthday!

Jim Henson inspired the whimsy and heart central to all things muppet, reinventing the way we view monsters, puppetry, and a character's power to educate. Thank you Jim! ❤️

[Orkney Library @OrkneyLibrary]

Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd.
Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves.
Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Before we had silicon chips, we had needle and thread.

In the 1960s, NASA didn’t ‘upload’ code; they sewed it.

To get Apollo 11 to the moon, skilled weavers (often called ‘Little Old Ladies’) literally hand-stitched software into physical objects.

[Carnival of Horror @HorrorCarnival]

One of my favorite bits in Shaun of the Dead (2004) is Shaun’s morning trip to the shop. 🧟‍♂️

Edgar Wright fills the background with signs that the zombie apocalypse is already underway, but Shaun is so locked into his daily routine that he barely notices anything around him.

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

If you painted the National Theatre in London white it would look like an Imperial Star Destroyer.

[Prince Charles Cinema @ThePCCLondon]

Paul W. S. Anderson's EVENT HORIZON returns to the PCC from a 35mm print Sat 3rd Oct at 3:30pm, presented in celebration of the late, great Sam Neill.

🎟️: https://t.co/lism5AdARA

[Prince Charles Cinema @ThePCCLondon]

Behind the scenes of ALIEN (1979). Finally! After plenty of demand, Ridley Scott's classic returns to the PCC in glorious 4K, screening Fri 2nd Oct at 3:15pm & Mon 12th Oct at 3:10pm.

🎟️: https://t.co/S5121JkxDZ

[Dyerbolical SciFi (☥𝐃𝐁) @DyerScifiDB]

The Thing 1982

[Humanoid History @HumanoidHistory]

LOST IN SPACE premiered on this day in 1965.

[Dyerbolical Horror (☥𝐃𝐁) @DyerbolicalDB]

The Thing (1982).

The blood test is still the greatest suspense scene in cinema.

MacReady has the flamethrower and a hot wire. The others are tied down. He tests them one at a time. Nobody has a result waiting in front of them. They just have to sit there and watch him come closer....

That is the engine of it. You are not watching the monster yet. You are watching a room full of men trying not to blink. He works down the line. Nothing happens.
The silence gets heavier with every pass. Then he hits Palmer, and the blood jumps out of the dish like it wants to live!
The room collapses in two seconds. Carpenter lets the wait do the damage first, then he pays it off. Over forty years later it still holds.

[ShortList @ShortList]

London’s Design Museum is hosting a huge new exhibition from the creators behind cult classic film Coraline

https://t.co/ja035BFGA6

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

41 years ago Today, Super Mario Bros. was first released in 1985 for the Famicom in Japan.

Frequently cited as one of the greatest video games of all time, it's one of the bestselling games of all time, with more than 58 million copies sold worldwide.

[Prince Charles Cinema @ThePCCLondon]

AKIRA is returning to the PCC again, this time from a brand new 35mm print! Katsuhiro Ôtomo's cyberpunk classic starts Fri 25th Sep, runs through to the end of September, and returns again in November.

🎟️: https://t.co/GphCyQWNlF

[Prince Charles Cinema @ThePCCLondon]

John Carpenter's THE THING (1982) returns to the PCC throughout HorrOctober in its glorious 4K restoration.

🎟️: https://t.co/JBiCi7FSqY

[SCI FI LONDON Film Festival @scifilondon]

@TheCinesthetic Predestination. The Cabin in the Woods