A quick glance through the movies of both the 1950s and the 1980s shows some immediate connections. There were nostalgic films from the Eighties like Stand By Me and Back to the Future which harkened back to a time thirty years earlier. There were also direct remakes like The Blob and Invaders from Mars

Here are the titles of 20 movies from both decades. Some are true science fiction while others are horror movies with a science fiction element. Can you properly label which ones are from the 1950s and which came out 30 years later?

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  1. Forbidden Planet
  2. They Live
  3. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  4. The Wasp Woman
  5. Critters
  6. Rocketship X-M
  7. Cat-Women of the Moon
  8. Night of the Comet
  9. The Twonky
  10. Swamp Thing
  11. Tobor the Great
  12. The Quiet Earth
  13. Night of the Creeps
  14. This Island Earth
  15. The Brain Eaters
  16. The Stuff
  17. Attack of the Giant Leeches
  18. The Incredible Shrinking Woman
  19. The World, the Flesh and the Devil
  20. Bloodsuckers from Outer Space

Are these sci-fi movies from the 1950s or the 1980s?

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