5/10
Low budget trailer footage series
26 September 2019
Warning: Spoilers
The version I watched was on Amazon Prime and consisted of 19 episodes, each bookended by identical Christopher Lee narration. The episodes mainly consist of trailer footage and sometimes brief interviews with celebrities. They're ordered thus:

1) AFTER THE END - post-apocalypse movies like THE OMEGA MAN, THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH, MAD MAX and the like. 2) ALIEN LIFE FORMS - THE MOLE PEOPLE and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL feature predominantly, alongside more modern fare like PREDATOR. 3) AMAZING INVENTIONS - featuring STAR TREK teleporters plus THE TIME MACHINE and, randomly, SPACEBALLS. 4) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - running the gamut from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY to SHORT CIRCUIT, and randomly SUPERMAN 3 too. 5) DINOSAURS - a seemingly endless collection of clips from old and creaky black and white B-movies. 6) END OF THE WORLD - with WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE headlining, this is interchangeable with the first episode. 7) FINAL FRONTIER - space exploration movies like ANGRY RED PLANET and DESTINATION MOON. 8) FUTURE WORLDS - the likes of THE RUNNING MAN and DEATH RACE 2000 feature strongly here. 9) H.G. WELLS - various clips from the copious adaptations of his work, with extra Michael York for the fans. 10) LOST WORLDS - predominantly looking at the various adaptations of novels by the likes of Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs. 11) MAD SCIENTISTS - somewhat literary, with Shelley and Stevenson featuring, although Eddie Murphy lowers the tone considerably. Good to see RE-ANIMATOR here, but why Bond? 12) MUTATIONS - i.e. were-people. '80s highlights include TEEN WOLF and CAT PEOPLE...and, again randomly, HIGHLANDER! 13) POWERS OF THE MIND - from the literary origins of the genre, with Stevenson and Dr Faustus, through THE EYES OF LAURA MARS and THE DEAD ZONE to THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS. 14) QUEENS OF SCI FI -Zsa Zsa Gabor in all her glory, plus copious CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON footage alongside METROPOLIS and, er, LIFEFORCE. 15) ROBOTS - METROPOLIS again, alongside old-time serials such as UNDERSEA KINGDOM and THE PHANTOM CREEPS. 16) SPAWN OF THE ATOM - various low rent nuclear scare flicks of the 1950s feature here. 17) U.F.O.S - THIS ISLAND EARTH nestles alongside PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE and INVADERS FROM MARS. 18) SCI-FI STARS - random clips from PLANET OF THE APES, THE TERMINATOR, PREDATOR and many more. 19) SCI-FI HEROES - more randomness with THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT, FLASH GORDON, ROBOCOP and back to MAD MAX again.
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