Category: Sci Fi

12 Monkeys

12 Monkeys VHS cover art. Movie starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt. With Joseph Melito, Jon Seda, Frank Gorshin, Christopher Plummer. Directed by Terry Gilliam. 1995.

12 Monkeys on VHS. Starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt. With Joseph Melito, Jon Seda, Frank Gorshin, Christopher Plummer. Directed by Terry Gilliam. 1995.

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The Future Is History

Cole (Willis) arrives at a mental hospital, claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2035. His mission: to save humanity from a killer virus that will devastate the future world population. A beautiful psychiatrist (Stowe) initially classifies Cole as delusional, but she soon joins him in an adventure that will take them to the limits of human comprehension. As they race to unravel the secret of the 12 Monkeys, their paths cross with a one-card-short-of-a-full-deck mental patient (Pitt) and a renowned scientist (Plummer). Before long, Cole begins to question his own sanity in a chaotic world that offers many questions but few answers.

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Dark City

Dark City VHS cover art. Movie starring Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly. With William Hurt, Richard O'Brien. Directed by Alex Proyas. 1998.

Dark City on VHS. Starring Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly. With William Hurt, Richard O’Brien. Directed by Alex Proyas. 1998.

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They built the city to see what makes us tick. Last night one of us went off.

When John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell, Dangerous Beauty) awakens in a strange hotel room, he finds that he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. The problem is he can’t remember a thing. Pursued by the police and haunted by the Strangers, mysterious beings who possess the ability to stop time and alter reality, he seeks to unravel the twisted riddle of his identity. But in a city where reality is the ultimate illusion, discovering the truth could be fatal.

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The Puppet Masters

The Puppet Masters VHS cover art. Movie starring Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner. With Keith David, Will Patton, Yaphet Kotto. From a Robert A. Heinlein novel. Directed by Stuart Orme. 1994.

The Puppet Masters on VHS. Starring Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner. With Keith David, Will Patton, Yaphet Kotto. From a Robert A. Heinlein novel. Directed by Stuart Orme. 1994.

From the box:

Donald Sutherland leads a team of top-level government agents who make a chilling discovery: extraterrestrial beings have landed and are quickly taking control of the residents of a small midwestern town — manipulating their bodies and minds like puppets! Forced with an escalating crisis as the creatures multiply and spread, the team must somehow eliminate the seemingly unstoppable aliens.

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Robot Jox

Robot Jox VHS cover art. Movie starring Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson, Paul Koslo. With Robert Sampson, Jeffrey Combs, Ian Patrick Williams. Directed by Stuart Gordon. 1990.

Robot Jox on VHS. Starring Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson, Paul Koslo. With Robert Sampson, Jeffrey Combs, Ian Patrick Williams. Directed by Stuart Gordon. 1990.

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Two Men! Two Machines! Too Wild!

Robot Jox. The massive killing machines of the future. Driven from the inside by the world’s greatest warriors, these incredible robot gladiators use their awesome size and computer weapons to fight each other… to the death.

Achilles is our country’s mightiest fighter. Now he faces the three most dangerous challenges of his life. He must attempt to crush his undefeated rival, the powerful Alexander, and try to uncover a traitor who is leaking top secret information to the enemy. But his greatest battle will be against his teammate Athena, a woman warrior bred to fight, who will stop at nothing to take his place.

Climb in the cockpit of a giant killer robot and take on the enemy in the war of the future. It’s a clash of metal and minds for guts and glory… and the winner takes all.

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Johnny Mnemonic

Johnny Mnemonic on VHS. Starring Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Dolph Lundgren, Beat Takeshi Kitano, Ice-T, Henry Rollins, Udo Kier. Written by William Gibson. Directed by Robert Longo. 1995.

Johnny Mnemonic on VHS. Starring Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Dolph Lundgren, Beat Takeshi Kitano, Ice-T, Henry Rollins, Udo Kier. Written by William Gibson. Directed by Robert Longo. 1995.

From the box:

A Pulse-Pounding Cyber-Slam!

Keanu Reeves is a space-age courier who’s plugged in, turned on and buffed up to deliver the most important data of the 21st century, wet-wired directly into his brain! A rapid-fire roller coaster of action and high-impact imagery!

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Tron

Tron VHS cover art. Movie starring Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan, David Warner, Barnard Hughes. Directed by Steven Lisberger. 1982.

Tron on VHS. Starring Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan, David Warner, Barnard Hughes. Directed by Steven Lisberger. 1982.

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Flynn (Jeff Bridges), a computer whiz who invents video games, finds himself at the mercy of the evil human forces who answer to The Master Control Panel–a powerfully corrupt computer presence that has beamed Flynn inside its deathly game grid. There, an electronic civilization thrives, and “Light Cycles” race at heart-stopping speeds. With the aid of his friends, Alan (Bruce Boxleitner) and Lora (Cindy Morgan), Flynn’s only hope is to activate Tron, the courageous and trustworthy counter-program, in a heroic battle to save humankind!

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WarGames

WarGames VHS cover art. Movie starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy. With Michael Madsen, Maury Chaykin, William H. Macy, Michael Ensign, Barry Corbin, James Tolkan. Directed by John Badham. 1983.

WarGames on VHS. Starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy. With Michael Madsen, Maury Chaykin, William H. Macy, Michael Ensign, Barry Corbin, James Tolkan. Directed by John Badham. 1983.

From the box:

When computer “hacker” David Lightman unwittingly taps into the Defense Department’s master war computer, he triggers a game that no one can win: World War III. It’s up to David and his girlfriend — along with a wizardly computer genius played by Tony Award-winner John Wood — to stop this nuclear Armageddon.

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Millennium

Millennium VHS cover art. Movie starring Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti. With Robert Joy, Lloyd Bochner, Maury Chaykin. Directed by Michael Anderson. 1989.

Millennium on VHS. Starring Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti. With Robert Joy, Lloyd Bochner, Maury Chaykin. Directed by Michael Anderson. 1989.

From the box:

The people aboard Flight 35 are about to land 1000 years from where they planned to.

MILLENNIUM

WE’VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU

Time travel, the fate of air disaster victims and the future of mankind provide the thrilling ingredients for MILLENNIUM. In this on-the-edge-of-your-set sci-fi thriller, Bill Smith (Kris Kristofferson), chief investigator of the NTSB, is sifting through wreckage of two jumbo jets involved in a midair collision when he uncovers a strange alien device amid the rubble. What is it? Where did it come from?

His questions are answered when he meets Louise (Cheryl Ladd), a woman from the future whose do-or-die mission is to travel back in time and recover the lost “stunner.” Is she running out of time? Will Bill Smith’s knowledge of the future jeopardize the course of history? Is the future of mankind now a thing of the past? One thing’s for sure… the suspense never lets up.

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Pitch Black

Pitch Black VHS cover art. Movie starring Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser, Radha Mitchell, Keith David. Directed by David Twohy. 2000.

Pitch Black on VHS. Starring Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser, Radha Mitchell, Keith David. Directed by David Twohy. 2000.

From the box:

Fight Evil With Evil

The daylight can burn you, but the darkness will kill you. From the mind of the writer of The Fugitive comes the pulse-pounding sci-fi thriller, Pitch Black. Experience the psychological terror when a group of marooned passengers must face a pack of terrifying creatures whose only weakness is the light. With little power and dwindling numbers, the doomed passengers turn to a vicious convict with an appetite for destruction and eerie eyes that can guide them through the darkness.

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Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

Journey to the Far Side of the Sun VHS cover art. Movie starring Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, Herbert Lom, Lynn Loring, Patrick Wymark, Loni von Friedl. Directed by Robert Parrish. 1969.

Journey to the Far Side of the Sun on VHS. Starring Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, Herbert Lom, Lynn Loring, Patrick Wymark, Loni von Friedl. Directed by Robert Parrish. 1969.

From the box:

Man Has Conquered The Moon
Now Take Another Momentous Journey!

When scientists a hundred years into the future discover a “duplicate” Earth on the other side of the Sun, the stage is set for tense, science fiction adventure and suspense. Determined to find out what this new world is like, the Western nations of Earth set up an expedition headed by former astronauts Roy Thinnes and Ian Hendry to reach the new planet.

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