Plenty of sci-fi movies with serious money behind them have done a lot to advance their genre. Metropolis, The Matrix, 2001: A Space Odyssey ($10.5 million doesn’t sound like much now, but it was a chunk of change back in 1968), Blade Runner, Avatar (at least in terms of showing how special effects could be … Continue reading 5 Low-Budget Sci-Fi Masterpieces That Changed Everything