Greatest 27 Sci-Fi Movies Must-Watch Released in 1962

The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images. More about La Jetée / IMDB / YouTube

A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body. Explore The Brain That Wouldn't Die / IMDB / YouTube

An expedition to Infant Island uncovers a native tribe and twin tiny fairy priestesses of a mythical deity, who sets out to rescue the pair after they are kidnapped by a greedy businessman. Check out Mothra / IMDB / YouTube

A family leaves Los Angeles for a camping trip just before hydrogen bombs destroy the city. In the midst of the chaos, the father must fight to keep his family alive along the highway. Get info on Panic in Year Zero! / IMDB / YouTube

When an alien artifact discovered on Earth is found to have come from Venus, an international team of astronauts embarks to investigate its origins. Find out about First Spaceship on Venus / IMDB / YouTube

The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures, from meeting the Man in the Moon to defeating a Turkish army all by himself. Look into The Fabulous Baron Munchausen / IMDB / YouTube

The residents of a coastal town are frightened by reports of an unknown creature in the sea. Look into Amphibian Man / IMDB / YouTube

Mistaken identity and the acquisition of a rare Tibetan herb put two buffoonish con men on the wrong side of a secret organization geared toward world domination. Explore The Road to Hong Kong / IMDB / YouTube

In 19th century Holland, a professor of fine arts and an unlicensed surgeon run a secret lab where the professor's ill daughter receives blood-transfusions from kidnapped female victims who posthumously become macabre art. Check out Mill of the Stone Women / IMDB / YouTube

Earth sends a five-man team to explore the frozen planet Uranus, only to find a temperate forest and sultry women from their past on it, courtesy of an alien brain with evil designs. See more about Journey to the Seventh Planet / IMDB / YouTube

An American journalist stationed in Japan is given a mysterious injection by a mad scientist, turning him into a murderous, two-headed monster. Get info on Manster / IMDB / YouTube

After exposure to radiation, an atomic research scientist finds himself changing into a murderous, lizard-like creature every time he is exposed to sunlight. Check out The Hideous Sun Demon / IMDB / YouTube

In a post holocaust society, robots take it on their own to help the dying human race by giving them android bodies. See more about The Creation of the Humanoids / IMDB / YouTube

Cosmonauts land on the planet Venus. However, they find themselves in danger from the voracious monsters they find on it. Details on Planeta bur / IMDB / YouTube

In 1862, the British commission inventor Fergusson to claim uncharted land in West Africa for Britain by flying his giant hot air balloon there. Look into Five Weeks in a Balloon / IMDB / YouTube

In 1661 Mexico, Baron Vitelius is executed for witchcraft. 300 years later, during a comet's return, he resurfaces as a brain-eating monster seeking revenge on the Inquisitors' descendants. Explore The Brainiac / IMDB / YouTube

The Stooges must battle alien spies to safeguard a goofy scientist's revolutionary new vehicle. Details on The Three Stooges in Orbit / IMDB / YouTube

Two Abbott and Costello-type soldiers find plantlike creatures that are under the control of two beautiful alien scientists who are bent on conquering Earth. Info on Invasion of the Star Creatures / IMDB / YouTube

A deputy sheriff stops motorists on a mountain road after police dispatch reports of a possible nuclear attack. See more about This Is Not a Test / IMDB / YouTube

Heavily alerted American version of Japan's Varan. A prehistoric behemoth is unwittingly awoken from hibernation due to a U.S-Japanese military experiment for economic means on it's watery lair. Learn about Varan the Unbelievable / IMDB / YouTube

Evil mastermind Dr. Mabuse seeks Professor Erasmus' secret invention, a device that makes one invisible, but a murder in a revue theatre brings the German police and the FBI into the mix. More about The Invisible Dr. Mabuse / IMDB / YouTube

Away on a short leave before an upcoming moon launch, a NASA astronaut disappears and is feared kidnapped when the security services learn about his friendship with a suspected foreign female spy. Info on Moon Pilot / IMDB / YouTube

After the mysterious crash of a millionaire's private airplane, three scientists secretly harvest the dying man's brain and keep it alive in a laboratory in order to communicate with it through telepathy. Get info on The Brain / IMDB / YouTube

A dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism as it subversively deconstructs the spy thriller with the protagonist's accidental discovery of a nuclear suitcase bomb and the subsequent fight over ownership between the rival powers of the criminals and the military. Info on A Bomb Was Stolen / IMDB / YouTube

An engineer, a psychologist and several other disparate types take part in an experiment to see if people can live for extended periods of time in a city built under the ocean. Explore The Underwater City / IMDB / YouTube

Neutron, a masked wrestler/superhero, battles a gang of crooks who are plotting to steal a secret formula. Details on Neutrón, el enmascarado negro / IMDB / YouTube