Best 15 Sci-Fi Movies Highly Rated Released in 1982

A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator. Info on Blade Runner / IMDB / YouTube

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. Check out The Thing / IMDB / YouTube

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet. Check out E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial / IMDB / YouTube

A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program. Find out about Tron / IMDB / YouTube

With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon. Find out about Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan / IMDB / YouTube

Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran. Learn about Halloween III: Season of the Witch / IMDB / YouTube

A computer glitch causes a passenger space shuttle to the moon to head straight for the sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the aircraft back on track - again? More about Airplane II: The Sequel / IMDB / YouTube

To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected. Info on The Secret of NIMH / IMDB / YouTube

After a violent incident with a special chemical, a research scientist is turned into a swamp plant monster. Info on Swamp Thing / IMDB / YouTube

A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort. Get info on Piranha II: The Spawning / IMDB / YouTube

A ragtag spaceship crew sent on a rescue mission encounter a formidable enemy, their worst fears projected by their own imaginations. Get info on Galaxy of Terror / IMDB / YouTube

Two space cadets crash-land on a desert planet, where an evil wizard seeks the ultimate power to take over the world. Look into The Man Who Saved the World / IMDB / YouTube

A high school science nerd gains telekinetic powers after a laboratory accident and uses them for revenge upon bullies. See more about Zapped! / IMDB / YouTube

A sheriff tries to stop the killing spree of a silent maniacal murderer who, as the result of secret genetic experimentation by an unethical scientist, has the ability to self-heal. Details on Silent Rage / IMDB / YouTube

In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group. Info on Forbidden World / IMDB / YouTube