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Science Fiction Films are usually scientific, visionary, comic-strip-like, and imaginative, and usually visualized through
fanciful, imaginative settings, expert film production design, advanced technology gadgets (i.e., robots and spaceships),
scientific developments, or by fantastic special effects. Sci-fi films are complete with heroes, distant planets, impossible
quests, improbable settings, fantastic places, great dark and shadowy villains, futuristic technology and gizmos, and unknown
and inexplicable forces. Many other SF films feature time travels or fantastic journeys, and are set either on Earth, into
outer space, or (most often) into the future time. Quite a few examples of science-fiction cinema owe their origins to writers
Jules Verne and H.G. Wells.
They often portray the dangerous and sinister nature of knowledge ('there are some things Man is not meant to know') (i.e.,
the classic Frankenstein (1931), The Island of Lost Souls (1933), and David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986) - an updating of the
1958 version directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Vincent Price), and vital issues about the nature of mankind and our place
in the whole scheme of things, including the threatening, existential loss of personal individuality (i.e., Invasion of the
Body Snatchers (1956), and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)). Plots of space-related conspiracies (Capricorn One (1977)),
supercomputers threatening impregnation (Demon Seed (1977)), the results of germ-warfare (The Omega Man (1971)) and laboratory-bred
viruses or plagues (28 Days Later (2002)), black-hole exploration (Event Horizon (1997)), and futuristic genetic engineering
and cloning (Gattaca (1997) and Michael Bay's The Island (2005)) show the tremendous range that science-fiction can delve
into.
Encounter is a movie unlike any other and like allof thise mentioned aboive,it is sure to go down in history as a staple
of the Sci Fi enthusiasts diet.
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