The Abyss (1989)

The crew of deep sea oil rig and submersible transport a Navy SEAL team to investigate a nuclear submarine crash.
Lindsey Brigman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) drowns and advanced cardiac life support is performed by the non-medical crew.

Video: The Abyss movie trailer

Video: Defibrillation and advanced life support

Altered States (1980)

Dr. Edward Jessup (William Hurt) is a professor of abnormal psychology who is studying schizophrenia.

Video. Altered States movie trailer.

WarGames (1983)

Teenager David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) unknowingly hacks a Pentagon computer to play a game. Dr. Stephen Falken (John Wood) helps them to stop “Global Thermonuclear War.” Dr. John McKittrick (Dabney Coleman) is a government official.

Video: WarGames movie trailer

Zardoz (1974)

Arthur Frayn is behind the Zardoz god mask and he created Zed using eugenics.

Video: Zardoz movie trailer

Total Recall (1990) is set in the year 2084.

Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) does not know if what he is experiencing is real or if it is the false memory vacation to Mars that he purchased from Total Recall. Dr. Edgemar tries to convince Quaid that it is only a paranoid delusion.

Video: Total Recall movie trailer

The Fly (1958)

Scientist Andre Delambre (Al Hedison) uses his teletransportation machine while a fly is in it.

Video: The Fly movie trailer

The Terminator (1984)

Dr. Peter Silberman (Earl Boen) is a criminal psychologist. Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) is diagnosed as delusional because she believes that her son will lead a resistance against the machines in a post-apocalyptic future.

Video: The Terminator movie trailer

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Dr. Heywood R. Floyd (William Sylvester) travels to the Moon to examine a large rectangular black monolith when suddenly sends a signal to Jupiter.

Video: 2001: Space Odyssey movie trailer

The computer is named HAL. The letters that follow H-A-L in the alphabet are I-B-M.

Forbidden Planet (1965)

Dr. Edward Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) knows the secret of the Forbidden Planet.

Video: Forbidden Planet movie trailer

What’s a bathing suit?

In this trailer we see:

• Receding text in the opening credits, just like Star Wars.
• A starship with a captain and crew exploring space, just like Star Trek.
• A mysterious planet with an ancient secret, just like Total Recall.
• Robbie the Robot.

This movie also refers to some Freudian notions without to much psychobabble.

Pretty good for 1956.

Charly (1968)

Dr Richard Nemur and Dr Anna Straus perform experimental surgery on Charlie Gordon (Cliff Robertson) who is a mentally retarded man. Will the surgery give him intelligence?

Video: Charly montage scene.