80s' Sci-Fi Rip-Offs That Had No Right Being This Good

80s' Sci-Fi Rip-Offs That Had No Right Being This Good

The 1980s didn’t just give us legendary sci-fi classics — it also unleashed a flood of copycats. Studios were racing to cash in on anything that even looked like the next Star Wars, Alien, or Blade Runner. Most of those rush-jobs were cheap, awkward, and instantly forgotten. But a strange thing happened along the way. Hidden inside that wave of so-called rip-offs were movies that refused to play by the rules.

Some were labeled “lazy clones” the moment their trailers dropped. And yet… decades later, people started rewatching them. Not out of irony — but out of genuine surprise.

00:00 Intro
00:57 Outland (1981)
03:17 Dreamscape (1984)
05:42 The Last Starfighter (1984)
08:15 RoboCop (1987)
10:41 Starman (1984)
13:22 The Hidden (1987)
16:01 Enemy Mine (1985)
18:55 Flash Gordon (1980)
21:49 The Fly (1986)
24:44 The Running Man (1987)

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