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Showdown: Grand Illusion

The sixteenth-annual TCM Classic Film Festival just kicked off in Hollywood, and this year’s theme is “Grand Illusions: Fantastic Worlds on Film”. For this week’s Showdown, create a list of your ten favorite sci-fi and/or fantasy films released a long time ago in a galaxy not-so far away—i.e. during or before 1980, the debut year of TCM Fest’s opening-night film.

  • The Seventh Seal
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Metropolis
  • Frankenstein
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still
  • The Thing from Another World
  • Star Wars
  • Alien
  • The Empire Strikes Back