Bill Warren: Eleven Best Science Fiction Films and Runners-Up
Bll Warren was an American film historian and critic, and wrote one of the first serious studies of science fiction films, Keep Watching the Skies! (the concluding line of Earth vs. the Flying Saucers), and this list is on page 501 of The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction, edited by Phil Hardy, The Overlook Press, 1995. Warren listed the films in order of length of title, and included a second list of runners up (E.T. starts). He afforded "The Star Wars Trilogy" and "The Quatermass Quartet" one place each. He leaves off titles he would put on his horror list such as King Kong, Alien, Bride of Frankenstein, Cronenberg's The Fly. He notes that in 1956, age 13, he would have considered It Came from Beneath the Sea and Creature with the Atom Brain as "best" and notes wanting to re-examine Zontar, the Thing from Venus and Battle Beneath the Earth. He says the Kauffman Invasion is probably better, but the Siegel more in tune with its time, but not wanting to choose between them.
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required scores: 1, 7, 12, 17, 21
