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!

[Bloody Disgusting @BDisgusting]

"It’s a documentary," John Carpenter says of THEY LIVE in a new interview with The Guardian.

Carpenter explains, "It’s still going on now, even worse. Things are bad here."

"I vote," he adds. "That’s the only power I have. I keep believing that we’ll fight them off one day."

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Just a friendly reminder that Sarah Connor was committed to a psychiatric institution after attempting to destroy AI data centers, a decision made because authorities believed her warnings about the future were the result of delusions.

[Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs]

In 1927, Science and Invention magazine offered a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Metropolis

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

ALIENS was released 40 years ago today.

James Cameron was just 31 when he directed the film and had only one major hit to his name. Many on the crew doubted him, but Aliens earned 7 Oscar nominations and became one of the most acclaimed sequels ever made.

[John Watches Horror @Y2John84]

RoboCop released 39 years ago today.

17 July 1987 🚔

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TIMECOP was released 32 years ago today.

The film was based on a little-known Dark Horse comic by Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden. It became an unexpected blockbuster, spawning a TV series and a sequel despite starting as a niche comic book.

[Last Exit To Nowhere @LASTEXITshirts]

An adventure 65 million years in the making... Jurassic Park was released in the UK on this day in 1993. What a film.
- Mike

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

THE WIZARD OF OZ turns 87 this year, and back in 1998, critic Rick Polito wrote what might be the greatest one-line TV listing ever:

“Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets, then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”

[Ned Middles @NedMiddles1]

In memory of Bonnie Tyler, here's the best use of HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO in a movie. It's in a lot of movies, but there's only one SHORT CIRCUIT 2.

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TRON was released 44 years ago today.

The Academy refused to nominate TRON for Best Visual Effects after deciding its groundbreaking use of computer-generated imagery was “cheating.” The techniques it pioneered would soon become the future of filmmaking.

[The Cinema Museum @CinemaMuseum]

AT LAST!!!
After 40 years of uncertainty, we finally have a chance to own our forever home.
We need to raise £500,000 to purchase our building and secure the home of cinema history, but we need to do that by December,.
Please give if you can https://t.co/vxlySOgRnA

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35 years ago today, TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991) was released.

Imagine seeing it without trailers. The moment the T-800 is revealed as John’s protector instead of his killer would have been one of cinema’s greatest twists.

[Prince Charles Cinema @ThePCCLondon]

We're giving 1 lucky winner a bundle of Hammer Films' noir classic including 36 Hours, Mantrap, Stolen Face & Whispering Smith Hits London in stunning 4K!

To enter, email: [email protected] & tell us: What year was Hammer Films founded?

Must be a UK resident.

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John Krasinski insisted the opening of A QUIET PLACE (2018) show the rules instead of explain them.

The studio pushed back, but he kept it. One small sound, one devastating consequence, and the film never has to explain itself again.

[Total Film @totalfilm]

Labyrinth was released 40 years ago today! 🔮

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Stanley Kubrick explains the ending of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in a rare 1980 phone interview.

[Last Exit To Nowhere @LASTEXITshirts]

WALL-E was released across the US on this day in 2008. It still remains one of my favourite animated films of all time. What are your top 5 animated films in order?
- Jamie

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The Matrix (1999) opens with a scene that must have blown audiences away in 1999. Nobody knew who Trinity was, why the Agents were so terrifying, or how she defied gravity. Within minutes, the Wachowskis announced that action movies had changed. https://t.co/m819zS3XN1

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On this day 44 years ago, two of the greatest sci-fi films ever made hit theaters on the very same day: BLADE RUNNER and THE THING.

Both underperformed on release, but time has transformed them into undisputed genre classics.

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John Carpenter's THE THING (1982) was released 44 years ago today

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The THING was released in UK cinemas #OnThisDay in 1982. Directed by the inimitable John Carpenter, with music by Ennio Morricone and starring Kurt Russell The Thing is a masterpiece. We💖😍 it!