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bilim-kurgu filmleri bütçeleri veri olarak sunulmuş. kıyas için ben de türün beğendiğim örneklerinden, 20 milyon doların altında bütçeyle çekilmiş olanları ekliyorum.

dr. jekyll and mr. hyde (1931): $535,000
frankenstein (1931): $262,007
the invisible man (1933): $328,033
island of lost souls (1933): bilinmiyor.
bride of frankenstein (1935): $397,000
the day the earth stood still (1951): $995,000
20,000 leagues under the sea (1954): $5 million
them! (1954): bilinmiyor. b-film.
forbidden planet (1956): $1,968,000
invasion of the body snatchers (1956): $416,911
invasion of the body snatchers (1978): $3.5 million
the incredible shrinking man (1957): $750,000
journey to the center of the earth (1959): $3.44 million
on the beach (1959): $2.9 million
the time machine (1960): $829,000
village of the damned (1960): $320,000
fantastic voyage (1966): $5,115,000
seconds (1966): $4-5 million
planet of the apes (1968): $5.8 million
sleeper (1973): $2 million
soylent green (1973): bilinmiyor, fakat düşük.
westworld (1973): $1,250,000
the stepford wives (1975): bütçesi bilinmiyor. başyapıt.
close encounters of the third kind (1977): $18 million
star wars episode iv: a new hope (1977): $11 million
alien (1979): $9–11 million
mad max (1979): a$350,000–400,000
mad max 2: the road warrior (1981): a$4.5 million
time after time (1979): bilinmiyor. muhtemelen düşük.
e.t. the extra-terrestrial (1982): $10.5 million
star trek ii: the wrath of khan (1982): $11.2 million
the thing (1982): $15 million
the dead zone (1983): $10 million
videodrome (1983): $5.952 million
wargames (1983): $12 million
electric dreams (1984): $5.5 million
the terminator (1984): $6.4 million
brazil (1985): $15 million
cocoon (1985): $17.5 million
the fly (1986): $9 million
predator (1987): $15–18 million
robocop (1987): $13 million
killer klowns from outer space (1988): $2 million
they live (1988): $3 million
bill & ted's excellent adventure (1989): $10 million
fire in the sky (1993): $15 million
cube (1997): $350,000
existenz (1999): $15 million
the thirteenth floor (1999): $16 million
happy accidents (2000): bilinmiyor. muhtemelen düşük.
donnie darko (2001): $3.8 million
the man from earth (2007): $200,000
moon (2009): $5 million
another earth (2011): $100,000
extracted (2012): $100,000

p.s.: 20$ üstü filmleri eledim, blade runner $28m, district 9 30m gibi. listeyi de criticker'de oylanmış filmlere tür filtresi uygulayarak hazırladım, sci-fi olup da filtre dışı tutulmuş filmler vardıysa, sitenin kabahati. bütçeleri de filmlerin wiki sayfalarından aldım.