We’re featuring our 5-to-1 ranking system where 5 is the best and 1 is the worst. This list will be updated accordingly.

5-Star Ranking – Best of the Best

• The War of the Worlds (1897) – The story follows an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and his younger brother in London during an invasion by Martians.

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4-Star Ranking – Top 10 Worthy

• The Time Machine (1895) – An English scientist and inventor develops a vehicle to travel 800,000 years into the future to find that humans have evolved into two races.
• The Invisible Man (1897) – The story follows Griffin, a scientist who has developed a procedure that renders his body invisible but fails in his attempt to reverse it.

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3-Star Ranking – Good Entertainment

• The Island of Doctor Moreau (1986) – A shipwrecked man by the name of Edward Prendick is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection.
• The First Men in the Moon (1900) – The story follows businessman Mr. Bedford and scientist Mr. Cavor who discover that the Moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilization of insect-like creatures they call “Selenites”.

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2-Star Ranking – Could’ve Been Better

• NA

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1-Star Ranking – Total Trash

• NA

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