15 Best Sci-Fi Movies On Netflix Right Now

7. The Terminator

Blade Runner
Orion Pictures

A true classic. It's the movie that made a star of Arnold Schwarzenneger, created the iconic villain Skynet, and cemented James Cameron's position as one of the best action directors of all time.

The eighties is a decade known for its violent and gory action movies and The Terminator is certainly that but this is not just dumb action shlock: it's exciting, tense, terrifying and full of iconic moments.

The Terminator succeeds because it manages to compress a complex sci-fi premise down to a simple chase movie, a combination of movie magic that recent sequels have spectacularly failed to capture.

Some of the effects have dated badly, especially in the final scenes, but The Terminator is still an unmissable movie.

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Christopher is a freelance pop culture writer, podcaster and self-confessed nerd from Scotland. He's also the owner, founder and editor at "The Head Scratcher" and a host of "The Scratch Cast" podcast. Visit www.theheadscratcher.com to find out more.