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HIRNFLIMMERN // Film archive
Retro sci-fi & pulp
The “Retro sci-fi & pulp” shelf gathers 312 films from our catalogue. Pick your next detour.
Science fiction from the 1950s to the VHS era: laboratory fantasies, future fears and space adventures.
Our guide’s house opinion
Three starting points for your film night
Three entries into older monster and invasion imagery. Compare their ideas and moods rather than assuming one uniform retro style.
Aliens and reanimated corpses form Ed Wood’s unusual invasion scenario.
Ishiro Honda’s 1954 Godzilla connects its radioactive creature with the experience of the atomic age.
A personal Hirnflimmern selection. All films on this shelf follow below.
312 films
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- A.Li.Ce
- Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
- Acción mutante
- Adieu Galaxy Express 999
- Akira
- Alien
- Alien 3
- Alienator
- Alien from L.A.
- Alien Intruder
- Alien Resurrection
- Aliens
- Alien Seed
- Alien Visitor
- All Monsters Attack
- American Cyborg: Steel Warrior
- Andromedia
- Arcadia of My Youth
- Assignment: Terror
- Atom Age Vampire
- Atragon
- Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
- Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman
- Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold
- Attack of the Crab Monsters
- Attack of the Giant Leeches
- Attack of the Puppet People
- A Wind Named Amnesia
- Battle in Outer Space
- Beast of Blood
- Be Forever Yamato
- Blood of the Vampire
- Blue Christmas
- Brainscan
- Brainstorm
- Bride of the Monster
- Burst City
- Caltiki – The Immortal Monster
- Castle of the Living Dead
- Conquest of Space
- Crazy Thunder Road
- Creature with the Atom Brain
- Creepozoids
- Critters 2: The Main Course
- Critters 3
- Critters 4
- Crusher Joe
- Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Vortex
- Cyborg 2
- Cyborg 3: The Recycler
- Cyborg 2087
- Cyborg Cop
- Cyborg Cop II
- Daijōbu, My Friend
- Day of the Dead
- Dead End Drive-In
- Dead Man's Letters
- Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
- Death Powder
- Destination Inner Space
- Devil Girl from Mars
- Dirty Pair: Project Eden
- Dogora
- Donovan's Brain
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
- Earth vs. the Spider
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
- Escape from Mars
- Esupai
- Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato: In the Name of Love
- Final Yamato
- Fire Maidens from Outer Space
- First Man into Space
- Fist of the North Star
- Flesh for Frankenstein
- Flight to Mars
- Flying Phantom Ship
- Frankenstein's Daughter
- Frankenstein 1970
- Frankenstein: The True Story
- Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
- Frankenstein Conquers the World
- Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster
- Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
- Full Metal Yakuza
- G.I. Samurai
- Galaxy Express 999
- Galaxy Invader
- Gamera, the Giant Monster
- Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
- Gamera 3: Awakening of Irys
- Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
- Gamera vs. Barugon
- Gamera vs. Guiron
- Gamera vs. Jiger
- Gamera vs. Viras
- Gamera vs. Zigra
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
- Ghost in the Shell
- Godzilla
- Godzilla 2000
- Godzilla Raids Again
- Godzilla vs. Biollante
- Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
- Godzilla vs. Gigan
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
- Godzilla vs. Megalon
- Godzilla vs. Mothra
- Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
- Gorath
- Gunhed
- Half Human
- Harmagedon
- How to Make a Monster
- Hyperspace
- I Married a Monster from Outer Space
- Innerspace
- Invaders from Mars
- Invasion of Astro-Monster
- Invasion of the Neptune Men
- Invisible Invaders
- Island of Terror
- It! The Terror from Beyond Space
- It Came from Outer Space
- I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
- Killers from Space
- King Kong Escapes
- King Kong vs. Godzilla
- Knights
- Latitude Zero
- Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace
- Legend of Dinosaurs & Monster Birds
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars
- Lensman
- Little Orbit the Astrodog and the Screechers from Outer Space
- Lost in Space
- Macross: Do You Remember Love?
- Malevil
- Man with the Transplanted Brain (L'homme au cerveau greffé)
- Mars Attacks!
- Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture – Prince of Darkness
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- Memoirs of an Invisible Man
- Memories
- Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor
- Mirai Ninja
- Missile Monsters
- Mission Mars
- Mobile Suit Gundam
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
- Monster a Go-Go!
- Monster from Green Hell
- Monster from the Ocean Floor
- Monster on the Campus
- Morons from Outer Space
- Mothra
- Mothra vs. Godzilla
- Muppets from Space
- Mutiny in Outer Space
- My Stepmother Is an Alien
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Nightbeast
- Night Caller from Outer Space
- Nightflyers
- Nightmare City
- Night of the Big Heat
- Night of the Blood Beast
- Night of the Bloody Apes
- Night of the Lepus
- Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight
- Omega Cop
- Patlabor 2: The Movie
- Patlabor: The Movie
- Phantom from Space
- Phoenix 2772
- Plan 9 from Outer Space
- Prayer of the Rollerboys
- Project A-ko
- Project Metalbeast
- Prophecies of Nostradamus
- Queen Millennia
- Queen of Outer Space
- Red Planet Mars
- Robinson Crusoe on Mars
- RoboCop 2
- RoboCop 3
- Robot Monster
- Robotrix
- Robot Wars
- Rocket Attack U.S.A.
- Rodan
- Roujin Z
- Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise
- Roy from Space
- Rubber's Lover
- Satan's Satellites
- Sayonara Jupiter
- Science Ninja Team Gatchaman: The Movie
- She Demons
- She Devil
- Solar Crisis
- Son of Godzilla
- Space Adventure Cobra
- Space Amoeba
- Space Battleship Yamato
- SpaceCamp
- Spaced Invaders
- Spaceflight IC-1
- Space Invasion of Lapland
- Space Is the Place
- Spaceman
- Space Master X-7
- Space Monster, Wangmagwi
- Space Mutiny
- Space Probe Taurus
- Space Rage
- Space Truckers
- Space Warrior Baldios
- Spaceways
- Spriggan
- Strange Invaders
- Submersion of Japan
- Superbeast
- Swamp Thing
- Teenage Monster
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
- Teenagers from Outer Space
- Terror Beneath the Sea
- Terror from the Year 5000
- Terror of Mechagodzilla
- Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
- The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army
- The Alien Factor
- The Astounding She-Monster
- The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
- The Beast of Hollow Mountain
- The Beast of Yucca Flats
- The Beast with a Million Eyes
- The Big Space Travel
- The Blob
- The Brain Eaters
- The Brain from Planet Arous
- The Brain That Wouldn't Die
- The Creeping Flesh
- The Creeping Terror
- The Curse of Frankenstein
- The Day Mars Invaded Earth
- The Deadly Mantis
- The Dead Zone
- The End of Evangelion
- The Evil Below
- The Face of Another
- The Frozen Dead
- The Giant Gila Monster
- The Giant Spider Invasion
- The Golden Bat
- The H-Man
- The Hideous Sun Demon
- The Horror of Frankenstein
- The Human Vapor
- The Illustrated Man
- The Invisible Boy
- The Invisible Man
- The Invisible Man vs The Human Fly
- The Killer Shrews
- The Last War
- The Magnetic Monster
- The Manster
- The Monolith Monsters
- The Monster of Piedras Blancas
- The Monster That Challenged the World
- The Mysterians
- The Mystery of Mamo
- The Navy vs. the Night Monsters
- The Night the World Exploded
- The Puppet Masters
- The Rat Savior
- The Return of Godzilla
- The Return of Swamp Thing
- The Revenge of Frankenstein
- The Satan Bug
- The Secret of the Telegian
- The Space Children
- The Terrornauts
- The Terror Within
- The Terror Within II
- The Trollenberg Terror
- The Unknown Terror
- The Vampire
- The War in Space
- The War of the Gargantuas
- The Wizard of Mars
- The World, the Flesh and the Devil
- The X from Outer Space
- They Came from Beyond Space
- They Were Eleven
- Timecop
- Toward the Terra
- Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer
- Urusei Yatsura 3: Remember My Love
- Urusei Yatsura: Only You
- Vampirella
- Varan the Unbelievable
- Vegas in Space
- Venus Wars
- Virus
- War of the Colossal Beast
- Xabungle Graffiti
- Yongary, Monster from the Deep
- Zeiram