This week’s selection of sci-fi from which our readers had to choose, leaned more towards sci-fi/horror than traditional science fiction. Here are the ranks: Coming in last place with 11 points was 1987’s Innerspace, a film I remember watching in the theater, but which I don’t remember much of. One point higher with 12 points is 1954’s Them!. The Incredible Shrinking Man takes fifth place with 15 points in a tie with Starship Troopers. Tied for 3rd, the Thing films, 1951’s The Thing from Another World and 1982’s The Thing, both received 18 points. Losing first by a mere 3 points, Forbidden Planet takes second with 26 leaving Alien to nab first place with 29 points. Alien wins and goes into my queue.

Here’s the deal: every week, I will be calling for suggestions of films to be added to my Netflix queue. Each person makes one suggestion and one alternate (in case I have seen one of your suggestions). The next week, when I call for new suggestions, we begin a one-week voting period to select the film to be placed immediately into my Netflix queue to be reviewed the weekend after (because I’ll already have my Netflix queue selections for the coming weekend). Then, you’ll find out what I thought in my weekly Morning After feature on Monday morning.

Sometimes a genre gets stuck in the rotation and it makes for a rough viewing schedule. Starting this week, I’m going to be asking for suggestions that fit a specific genre so each week can be a bit spicy. The genre or event listed each week will be posted at the end of this post.

To help decide what to pick, here is a list of what I’ve seen (or at least that I have personally logged).

Full List of Films I’ve Seen (updated through 3/10/11; a small number of titles may be missing still)
Here’s what you need to post today (and through next Wednesday):

1. Below, please provide your suggestions to add to my Netflix queue.
2. Next, please rate each of the following entries in order of preference. Item 1 will be most preferred, 2 next most preferred and so forth.

• The Andromeda Strain (1971)
• The China Syndrome (1979)
• Fail-Safe (1964)
• Fearless (1993)
• In Old Chicago (1937)
• Panic in the Streets (1950)
• San Francisco (1936)
• Volcano (1997)

This Week’s Category: Movies about the movies.