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Low-budget horror, fantasy, science fiction or usually a mixture of all three genre films churned out by the dozens each year for the SyFy Network (formerly the Sci Fi Network).
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Decoys

Decoys is a 2004 film directed and co-written by Matthew Hastings, and co-written by Tom Berry. The cast included Kim Poirier and Nicole Eggert. It was filmed in Ottawa, Canada and originally broadcast on the Sci Fi Channel. A jock is seen carrying...

Initial release date:

  • 2004

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Beyond Re-Animator

Beyond Re-Animator (2003) is a horror movie, directed by Brian Yuzna. It is the second sequel to Re-Animator. The film premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel (though it was produced independently and acquired by the channel only as a distributor). This...

Initial release date:

  • Apr 4, 2003

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Runtime:

  • 95 min (57 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 3,000,000 (US$)

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Sabretooth

Sabretooth is a 2002 film directed by James D.R. Hickox. It premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel on November 16, 2002. Using fossilized DNA, a scientist creates a prehistoric saber-toothed tiger. As the fearsome creature is being transported, it breaks...

Initial release date:

  • Nov 16, 2002

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Runtime:

  • 90 min (54 hs )

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Encrypt

Encrypt is a television movie, and premiered June 14, 2003, on the Sci-Fi Channel. Set in the year 2068, the Earth's surface is in a cataclysmic upheaval, much of it transformed into wasteland by unstoppable storms (the byproduct of the destruction...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 14, 2003

Deep Shock

Deep Shock is a movie which premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel on 2003. In the film, an unknown underwater object disables an American nuclear-powered submarine and attacks a submerged Arctic research complex. A scientific expedition flies to the North...

Initial release date:

  • 2003

Runtime:

  • 93 min (56 hs )

Alien Apocalypse

Alien Apocalypse is a 2005 Sci Fi channel original movie, directed and written by Josh Becker, and starring Bruce Campbell, Renee O'Connor, Remington Franklin, Michael Cory Davis and Peter Jason. It was released direct-to-video on March 26, 2005....

Initial release date:

  • Mar 26, 2005

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Runtime:

  • 88 min (53 hs )

Alien Hunter

Alien Hunter is a 2003 film, directed by Ron Krauss and starring James Spader. In 1947, in New Mexico, a radio operator receives a signal following patterns and while investigating the occurrence, he vanishes. In the present day, the same signal is...

Initial release date:

  • 2003

Runtime:

  • 92 min (55 hs )

Minotaur

Minotaur is a 2006 horror film, directed by Jonathan English. It stars Tom Hardy, Tony Todd, Ingrid Pitt and Rutger Hauer. It was filmed in Luxembourg. Long ago in the Iron Age a shadow loomed over a lonely village of Thens. For every five years,...

Initial release date:

  • Mar 11, 2006

Runtime:

  • 93 min (56 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 7,000,000 (US$)

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Project Viper

Project Viper is a 2002 movie starring Patrick Muldoon, Theresa Russell, Curtis Armstrong, Tamara Davies. The movie was directed by Jim Wynorski under the pseudonym "Jay Andrews." When a terrifying, bioengineered lifeform is stolen from its creator,...

Initial release date:

  • 2002

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Momentum

Momentum is a July 26, 2003 television movie that premiered on the U.S. Sci Fi Channel. The movie was directed by James Seale. Physics professor Zach Shefford (Grayson McCouch) has regarded his telekinetic gifts as a curse rather than a blessing....

Initial release date:

  • Jul 26, 2003

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Runtime:

  • 88 min (53 hs )

Frankenfish

Frankenfish is a 2004 creature horror movie dealing with genetically engineered fish in the bayou. The film was based on the snakehead fish incident in a Crofton, Maryland, pond. It is one of two movies based on the incident, the other being...

Initial release date:

  • 2004

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Runtime:

  • 84 min (50 hs )

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Silent Warnings

Silent Warnings is a SciFi channel original movie that premiered August 26, 2003, directed by Christian McIntire, about a group of college students who begin finding crop circles by the house they've moved into. Following the disappearance of one of...

Initial release date:

  • 2003

Runtime:

  • 87 min (52 hs )

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Riverworld

Riverworld is a sci-fi/fantasy feature-length pilot episode for a series that was never produced. It aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2003. It was loosely based on the Hugo winning Riverworld saga by Philip José Farmer. Production began in 2001. In...

Initial release date:

  • 2003

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Alien Lockdown

Alien Lockdown is a television movie that premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel on March 1, 2004. The movie was directed by Tim Cox. On SciFi UK the film was shown under the title Creature. When an ancient alien life force that has lain dormant for...

Initial release date:

  • Mar 2, 2005

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Runtime:

  • 90 min (54 hs )

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The Fallen Ones

The Fallen Ones is a Sci Fi Channel original movie from 2005. Based on a biblical reference to giants (Genesis 6:4); the story involves an archaeologist uncovering, and ultimately fighting, one of the Nephilim. This creature is the offspring of a ...

Initial release date:

  • 2005

House of the Dead 2

House of the Dead 2 (alternately titled House of the Dead II: Dead Aim) is the sequel to Brightlight Pictures' 2003's House of the Dead. The movie is directed by Michael Hurst and premiered on the SciFi Channel on February 11, 2006. The DVD was...

Initial release date:

  • Feb 11, 2006

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Runtime:

  • 95 min (57 hs )

Estimated budget:

  • 6,000,000 (US$)

Boa vs. Python

Boa vs. Python is a 2004 Sci Fi Pictures original film. It was directed by David Flores, from a script by Chase Parker and Sam Wells, and was filmed in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is technically not a sequel to the Python series of movies, but the incidents...

Initial release date:

  • May 24, 2004

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Runtime:

  • 92 min (55 hs )

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Slipstream

Slipstream is a 2005 science fiction film, written by Louis Morneau and Phillip Badger and directed by David van Eyssen. The film stars Sean Astin, Vinnie Jones and Ivana Miličević. It was first shown at the London Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Festival...

Initial release date:

  • Feb 12, 2005

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Runtime:

  • 89 min (53 hs )

Anonymous Rex

Anonymous Rex is an original movie made for the Sci Fi TV channel, directed by Julian Jarrold and adapted to film by Joe Menosky from the novel Casual Rex by Eric Garcia. The premise of the film is that dinosaurs did not die off, but faked their...

Initial release date:

  • 2004

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Runtime:

  • 120 min (72 hs )

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Raptor Island

Raptor Island is a Sci Fi original movie about an island in the South China Sea. The film debuted on the Sci Fi Channel in 2004. A team of SEALs chases a group of terrorists onto the island after destroying a weapons cache and rescuing a special...

Initial release date:

  • 2004

Runtime:

  • 89 min (53 hs )

Pterodactyl

Pterodactyl is a 2005 film that premiered on the Sci Fi Channel. The film is directed by Mark L. Lester. A team of American scientists and students of science (lead by Cameron Daddo) are exploring the nature phenomena in the Turkish/Armenian border,...

Initial release date:

  • 2005

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Mammoth

Mammoth is a 2006 feature film directed by Tim Cox and produced by Plinyminor in association with the Sci Fi Channel starring Vincent Ventresca, Summer Glau, Leila Arcieri and Tom Skerritt. The film was nominated for a 2006 Emmy Award for...

Initial release date:

  • Apr 2, 2006

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Runtime:

  • 90 min (54 hs )

Komodo vs. Cobra

Komodo vs. Cobra, also referred to as KVC, is a 2005 film directed by Jim Wynorski. It is Wynorski's remake of his 2004 film Curse of the Komodo, with several similar elements (experimentation gone awry, father-daughter team, government attempt to...

Initial release date:

  • Aug 19, 2005

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Runtime:

  • 94 min (56 hs )

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Black Hole

Black Hole is a Sci Fi original movie, directed by Tibor Takács. Something goes awry at a particle accelerator facility in St. Louis and a black hole begins to form. A creature exits the hole and seeks out energy. As the creature absorbs energy, the...

Initial release date:

  • Jun 10, 2006

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Estimated budget:

  • 3,500,000 (US$)

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Man-Thing

Man-Thing is a 2005 straight to video then telefilm, directed by Brett Leonard and featuring the Marvel Comics creature created by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway. The plot is based loosely on a storyline by Steve Gerber, who wrote the most...

Initial release date:

  • Apr 30, 2005

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Runtime:

  • 97 min (58 hs )

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Savage Planet

Savage Planet is a Sci Fi Pictures original film that premiered August 12, 2006 on the Sci Fi Channel. In the year 2068, Earth can no longer sustain human life with its natural resources depleted beyond repair. Whereas other companies are seeking to...

Initial release date:

  • Aug 12, 2006

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Runtime:

  • 93 min (56 hs )

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The Harpy

The Harpy (or Stan Lee's The Harpies) is a Sci Fi Pictures original film directed by Josh Becker. Stan Lee is the executive producer. The Harpy began pre-production on June 26, 2006 and first aired on June 23, 2007. The movie was shot in Bulgaria....

Initial release date:

  • May 1, 2007

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George and the Dragon

George and the Dragon, (alternative title: Dragon Sword) is a 2004 Sci-Fi Channel Historical fantasy film based in a medieval England, and loosely based on the legend of Saint George and the Dragon. George (James Purefoy), a knight returned from the...

Initial release date:

  • 2004

Runtime:

  • 93 min (56 hs )

S.S. Doomtrooper

S.S. Doomtrooper is a 2006 made-for-TV science fiction movie starring Corin Nemec, in which a mutated Nazi supersoldier (which is blue, has glowing veins, can generate electrical radiation as a weapon, and has greatly enhanced strength and size)...

Initial release date:

  • Apr 1, 2006

Larva

Larva is a 2005 TV movie taking place in Host, Missouri about a species of fluke-like parasites that have been mutated after ingesting enhanced cow feed. They infected animals (including humans) from the inside and grew at an enormous rate, bursting...

Initial release date:

  • Apr 2, 2006

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Runtime:

  • 90 min (54 hs )

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Abominable

Abominable is a 2006 Sci Fi Channel original movie, directed and written by Ryan Schifrin. The film stars Matt McCoy, Jeffrey Combs, and Haley Joel. The film features the cryptid Bigfoot as the main antagonist. It premiered on April 10, 2006 in New...

Initial release date:

  • 2006

Runtime:

  • 94 min (56 hs )

Mansquito

Mansquito (also known as Mosquitoman) is a 2005 Sci Fi original film, directed by Tibor Takács, and stars Corin Nemec, Musetta Vander, and Austin Jordon. The film shares many similarities with the 1986 adaptation of The Fly, and was conceived by Ray...

Initial release date:

  • Mar 5, 2005

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Runtime:

  • 92 min (55 hs )

Path of Destruction

Path of Destruction is a 2005 made-for-TV TBS (TV network) Original film that is now being screened on the Sci Fi Channel about a nanotechnology experiment gone awry. After the government cuts funding to a nanotechnology project, the fictional...

Initial release date:

  • Sep 24, 2005

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Runtime:

  • 120 min (72 hs )

Grendel

Grendel is a 2007 film directed by Nick Lyon that is very loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. The made-for-television film was produced by the Sci Fi channel as an original movie for broadcasting on the Sci Fi cable television...

Initial release date:

  • Jan 13, 2007

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Gryphon

Gryphon also known as Attack of the Gryphon is a 2007 film directed by Andrew Prowse, starring Amber Benson, Jonathan LaPaglia, and Larry Drake. It premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel on January 27, 2007. The made for TV movie continues a tradition of...

Alien Express

Alien Express (formerly known as Dead Rail) is a 2005 Sci Fi Channel original film, directed by Turi Meyer and stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Amy Locane, Barry Corbin, and Todd Bridges. The film was released direct-to-video on August 13, 2005. A new...

Initial release date:

  • Aug 13, 2005

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Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy

Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy is a 2005 Sci-Fi Channel original movie, written by Kenneth M. Badish and Boaz Davidson, and directed by Michael Oblowitz. The film stars William Forsythe, Hunter Tylo, and Jeffrey Combs. The film premiered on Sci Fi Channel...

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Runtime:

  • 92 min (55 hs )

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Lake Placid 2

Lake Placid 2 is a 2007 made-for-television horror film starring John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard, Smallville) produced by Sony Pictures and the Sci Fi Channel. This sequel to the 1999 film, Lake Placid, aired as a Sci Fi Channel original movie...

Initial release date:

  • Apr 28, 2007

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Runtime:

  • 70 min (42 hs )

Tin Man

Tin Man is a 2007 six-hour miniseries co-produced by RHI Entertainment and Sci Fi Channel original pictures that was broadcast in the United States on the Sci Fi Channel in three parts. The first part aired on December 2, and the remaining two parts...

KAW

KAW is a Sci Fi Pictures original film that premiered April 7, 2007 on the Sci Fi Channel. It is similar in plot to The Birds (1963), and can be considered a modernization of the film. A shunned farmer, who lives in a small country town, attempts to...

Painkiller Jane

Painkiller Jane is a made-for-television movie based on the comic book character of the same name. It was first broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in December 2005. The 2-hour film stars Emmanuelle Vaugier as the titular heroine. The film differs...

Earthstorm

Earthstorm is a 2006 Sci Fi Channel original movie, starring Stephen Baldwin, Amy Price-Francis, John Ralston, and Dirk Benedict. The film was directed by Terry Cunningham and written by Michael Konyves. It was released in June 2006 and premiered on...

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Ice Spiders

Ice Spiders is an R rated 2007 horror/Sci-fi movie that premiered on June 9, 2007 on the Sci Fi Channel. Ice Spiders stars Patrick Muldoon, Vanessa A. Williams, Noah Bastian, K. Danor Gerald and Matt Whittaker and was released on DVD in 2007. A...

Initial release date:

  • 2007

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Runtime:

  • 90 min (54 hs )

Skeleton Man

Skeleton Man is a 2004 Sci Fi Pictures original film. It was directed by Johnny Martin, and stars Michael Rooker and Casper Van Dien.

Runtime:

  • 89 min (53 hs )

MegaSnake

Mega Snake is a made for television film by Sci Fi Pictures. It first aired on August 25, 2007. The film was produced by the company Nu Image Films specifically as an original movie for broadcasting on the Sci Fi cable television network. It was...

Initial release date:

  • 2007

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Descent

Descent is a 2005 original film on the Sci Fi Channel. Oil drilling causes the Earth's crust to sink, pushing the magma up. A crew must detonate nuclear weapons underground and push the crust back into its proper position. The film's plot has been...

Attack of the Sabretooth

Attack of the Sabretooth is a 2005 Sci Fi original movie, directed by George T. Miller, and starring Robert Carradine, Nicholas Bell, Brian Wimmer, and Stacy Haiduk. It was filmed on location in Fiji. Niles, a multimillionaire, creates a new resort...

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Runtime:

  • 92 min (55 hs )

Grizzly Rage

Grizzly Rage is a 2007 Canadian made-for-television natural horror film produced by RHI Entertainment that premiered in Canada on the video-on-demand channel Movie Central On Demand on June 7, 2007. It aired in the United States on the Sci Fi...

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Runtime:

  • 86 min (52 hs )

Wraiths of Roanoke

Wraiths of Roanoke (also known as Lost Colony or Lost Colony: The Legend of Roanoke), is a 2007 Sci Fi original movie, directed by Matt Codd and stars Adrian Paul, Frida Show, Rhett Giles, Michael Teh, and George Calil. The film follows the 16th...

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Croc

Croc is a 2007 made-for-television natural horror film produced by RHI Entertainment that premiered in Canada on the video-on-demand channel Movie Central On Demand in July 2007. It aired in the United States on the Sci Fi Channel on November 4,...

Initial release date:

  • Nov 4, 2007

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Runtime:

  • 86 min (52 hs )

Odysseus: Isle of the Mist

Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists is a 2007 feature film directed by Terry Ingram and produced by Plinyminor in association with the Sci Fi Channel in Vancouver, B.C. King Odysseus has been away from Ithaca for twenty years. The first ten he spent...

Runtime:

  • 92 min (55 hs )

BloodMonkey

Blood Monkey is a 2007 American made-for-television natural horror film produced by RHI Entertainment and directed by Robert Young. It aired on various video on demand channels, before officially premiering in the United States on the Sci Fi Channel...

Initial release date:

  • 2000

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Runtime:

  • 88 min (53 hs )

Rock Monster

Rock Monster is a 2008 TV movie directed by Declan O'Brien. This TV film is one of the Sci Fi Channel's original movies. The movie is about a group of college students who have travelled to an Eastern European village. One of them, the main...

Initial release date:

  • Mar 22, 2008

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Heatstroke

Heatstroke is a Sci Fi Channel original movie. The film stars D. B. Sweeney of Jericho fame and Danica McKellar. It was made by the team that made Farscape. The film was written by Richard Manning and David Kemper, produced by David Kemper, and...

Initial release date:

  • 2008

Sands of Oblivion

Sands of Oblivion is a 2007 Sci-Fi Channel original movie starring Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Victor Webster, George Kennedy, Richard Kind and Dan Castellaneta. It was directed by David Flores and premiered July 28, 2007 on the Sci Fi Channel....

Runtime:

  • 90 min (54 hs )

Flu Bird Horror

Flu Bird Horror is a 2008 made-for-television horror Sci Fi Pictures original film written by Tony Daniel and Brian D. Smith, and directed by Leigh Scott. It first aired on The Sci-Fi Channel on August 23, 2008, and was released to DVD as Flu Birds...

Slayer

Slayer, also known as Mexferatu Mexico, is a 2006 vampire themed television movie by Sci Fi Channel, directed and written by Kevin VanHook, starring Casper Van Dien and Kevin Grevioux, about an elite commando squad in South American rain forest,...

Runtime:

  • 88 min (53 hs )

Wyvern

Wyvern is a 2009 American made-for-television natural horror film produced by RHI Entertainment that premiered in the United States on the Sci Fi Channel on January 1, 2009. Written by Jason Bourque and directed by Steven R. Monroe, the film is part...

Initial release date:

  • Jan 31, 2009

Runtime:

  • 89 min (53 hs )

Shark Swarm

Shark Swarm is a film created by RHI Entertainment as part of the Maneater film series. It premiered on the Sci Fi Channel on May 25, 2008. Directed by James A. Contner and written by Matthew Chernov and David Rosiak, the film stars Daryl Hannah,...

Initial release date:

  • May 25, 2008

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Runtime:

  • 95 min (57 hs )

Carny

Carny is a 2009 made for TV movie starring Lou Diamond Phillips as a small town Sheriff hunting a mysterious New Jersey Devil. First aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in April 2009.
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