Favorite SciFi/SyFy original movie?

I like Sharktopus because come on, Sharktopus.

Alien Apocalypse. Bruce Campbell at his absolute B-movie best. It's so bad it's hilarious.

They produce some incredible garbage but I will conditionally argue one film actually being GOOD: Dog Soldiers. The condition being I don't know what exactly might have happened but I saw them claiming it as their own recently when I recall it went to theaters and is a British film. Maybe they bought the US rights to it or something and now pretend they're responsible for it. It's a good movie, but they air it and advertise it as a Sci Fi original.

As for their typical fare, it's hard to say. I watch them regularly, it's background noise while I'm on my computer really. Most of their movies have blended together into a generic and sometimes hilarious clump of screaming, dying, bad special effects, and nuking shit. I have trouble determining favorites most of the time and I'm really drawing a blank as to one that I can recall more then just brief moments of. Sharktopus was cheesy fun though.

Dog Soldiers is good...uncut. The Sci-Fi cut of the film is a total hackjob.

I recall having a good laugh watching Raptor Island, which was like a B-Movie version of Jurassic Park with lots of gore.

Cube 2, its about the only good one I remember them making besides Librarian.

Dead and Deader will always have a special place in my heart. That and SS Doomtrooper.

This troper felt that Monster Wolf and Abomitable were pretty decent,in terms of scfy films, movies. However, I'll always have a special place in my heart for such bombs as Mongolian Deathworm and Warwolves simply because of there over the top suckiness.

edited 26th Feb '11 9:17:46 PM by OkamiFox

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus gets my vote for this scene alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBizgLZX7W0

Or Shark Attack 3: Megalodon for all the attacks involving documentary footage with victims green-screened in.

The one where that guy karate kicks those flying piranhas. Tiffany was in that, right?

Megashark Vs. Giant Octopus, hands down.

The second Dungeons And Dragons movie. Great special effects, good plot, nowhere NEAR as badly acted as the first one.

Wait, wait, wait. I take back my vote, because I have to recast it for Savage Planet. Never, ever have I laughed so hard at a movie.

This is the very begining of the film, with no cuts made whatsoever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSbTuaX2Rx0

The movie's plot is that Earth gets polluted, so we have to find a new home. We just happen to find a habitable planet, but when a research team goes to check it out, they encounter hostile alien...BEARS. Bears identical to ours, that just happened to evolve on this completely separate planet by coincidence.

Some highlights:

• The press conference at the end, where the heroes announce that we can't migrate to this new planet. Because it has bears.
• Every attack scene in the film, where nature footage of grizzlies is edited in between shots of the actors screaming and getting bloodied up. At one point, it even uses daytime footage for a nighttime scene.
• After the team encounters one of the things for the first time and kills it, they stare at the corpse and a character seriously asks "What the Hell is that?!".

And to close off, another lovely scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrWUPBAFNH4&feature=related

edited 27th Feb '11 6:47:00 PM by RTaco

Given that they don't actually produce films in house, and you can call any movie that premiers in the US on Sy Fy a Sy Fy Original...

I'm going to have to go with Dog Soldiers or Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes.

I was actually disappointed by Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. There wasn't nearly as much creature vs. creature stuff as I was expecting.

Does Monster Man count? That movie was hilarious.

Mega Shark, thank you. Currently my favourite bad movie ever.

Now, in terms of actually decent films, I liked Taken and Tin Man. Of course, those were, what, two good movies out of hundreds of crap ones?

Isn't TinMan a miniseries, rather than original movie? If not, then Alice qualifies as well, and I nominate it (along with TinMan).

edited 28th Feb '11 5:29:11 PM by Swish

It was a three-part miniseries.

Raptor Island.

One of these days I'm going to produce my own story for these guys: The Robat, the story of a giant, deadly, powerful robotic weapon developed by the military built in the shape of the flying mammal whose AI morality locks go haywire and allow him to start killing people.

edited 28th Feb '11 6:51:26 PM by SeanMurrayI

Alien There's just no choice for me. =)

edited 1st Mar '11 9:21:52 AM by myrdschaem

If only http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ass_Spider! went around tweking it'd be my favorite.

I would say the Dune miniseries, which was actually better than the David Lynch movie, but you said only original movies, so it don't count.

Splinter is legitimately one of the best horror movies I've ever enjoyed.

The best part was that little finger monster. It was kind of...cute. In a horrible way.