Sunday, December 25

Cryonic Filmography



Below is a list of movies and television shows where cryonics or some form of suspended animation is visually depicted, I am working on compiling more anime and films from other cultures:


2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) directed by Stanley Kubrick

2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) directed by Peter Hyams

2040: Possibilities by Edward de Bono (1995) directed by Edward de Bono

Able Edwards (2004) directed by Graham Robertson

Abre los Ojos or Open Your Eyes (1997) directed by Alejandro Amenábar

Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) directed by Yakov Protazanov

Alien (1979) directed by Ridley Scott

Alien: Resurrection (1997) directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Aliens (1986) directed by James Cameron

Alien 3 (1992) directed by David Fincher

The Arctic Giant (1942) directed by Dave Fleischer

Artificial Intelligence (2001) directed by Steven Spielberg

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) directed by Jay Roach

Austin Powers II: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) directed by Jay Roach

Batman and Robin (1997) directed by Joel Schumacher

Blade Runner (1982) directed by Ridley Scott

Buck Rogers (1939, then editted again in 1977) directed by Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkind

Buck Rogers of the 25th Century (television show)

Chiller (1985) directed by Wes Craven

The Chilling (1989) directed by Jack A. Sunseri

Cinq gars pour Singapour (1967) directed by Bernard Toublanc-Michel

Dark Star (1974) directed by John Carpenter

Demolition Man (1993) directed by Marco Brambilla

Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) directed by Robert Fuest

Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997) directed by Tom Schulman

Empire Strikes Back (1980) directed by Irvin Kershner

Encino Man (1992) directed by Les Mayfield

E.T., The Extraterrestrial (1982) directed by Steven Spielberg

Event Horizon (1997) directed by Paul WS Anderson

Final (2001) directed by Campbell Scott

Firefly (2002) (television series)

Forbidden World (1982) directed by Allan Holzman

Forever Young (1992) directed by Steve Miner

Frozen Alive (1966) directed by Bernard Knowles

The Frozen Dead (1966) directed by Herbert J Leder

Frozen Scream (1975) directed by Frank Roach

Futurama (television show) (1999-?)

Genesis II (television pilot)(1973) directed by John Llewellyn Moxey

The Great Mystic (1946) directed by Phil Rosen

Galaxina (1980) directed by William Sachs

Ice Pirates (1984) directed by Stewart Raffill

Idiocracy (2006) directed by Mike Judge (in production)

In Like Flint (1967) directed by Gordon Douglas

Jason X (2001) directed by James Isaac

Kama Sutra (1991) directed by Chihata Miyazaki and Masayuki Ozeki

Late for Dinner (1991) directed by WJ Richter

Lost in Space (1998) directed by Stephen Hopkins

The Man with Nine Lives (1940) directed by Nick Grinde

Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher (2002) directed by Eric Canuel

Night of the Creeps (1986) directed by Fred Dekker

The Oblong Box (1969) directed by Gordon Hessler

Open Your Eyes or Abre los Ojos (1997) directed by Alejandro Amenábar

Paris qui dort (1925) directed by René Clair

Planet of the Apes (1968) directed by Franklin J Shaffner

Planet Earth (tv pilot) (1974) directed by Marc Daniels

Planet Outlaws (1953) directed by Harry Revier

Project: Metalbeast (1995) directed by Alessandro De Gaetano

Return of the Ape Man (1944) directed by Phil Rosen

The Return of Captain Nemo (television) (1978)

Return of the Jedi (1983) directed by Richard Marquand

Rude Awakening (1989) directed by David Greenwalt and Aaron Russo

The Second Hundred Years (television) (1967-68)

Seventy-Seven Below (2004) directed by Aina Abiodun

Sherlock Holmes Returns (television pilot) (1993)

Sleeper (1973) directed by Woody Allen

Spoiler (1998) directed by Jeff Burr

Star Trek (television show)(1966-69)

Universal Soldier: The Return (1999) directed by Mic Rodgers

Urusei Yatsura 1: Onri yû (1983)directed by Mamoru Oshii

Urusei Yatsura 2: Byûtifuru dorîmâ (1984)directed by Mamoru Oshii

Vanilla Sky (2001) directed by Cameron Crowe

"VR.5" (1995) [TV-Series]

The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998) Directed by Rob Bowman

Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) directed by Jon Favreau

2 Comments:

At 1:49 PM, Blogger Nathan Shafer said...

From this list we are able to decode many of the ways pop culture or sci fi culture uses the notions of suspended animation or cryonic suspension to visually depict both the technology of life extension and the fantasy of living forever.

 
At 9:44 AM, Blogger Nathan Shafer said...

I am going over this list and realizing the film Shawn Cheatham made with a small and moderate amount of my help and research includes maybe only one half of these movies. This filmograohy was enough to win you that maven award Willard!

 

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