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We need your votes to help us compile an upcoming SFX Special

The time has come to take part in SFX ’s biggest ever movie poll. That’s right, because SFX.co.uk now has more regular users than ever before (over a quarter of a million) we’re confident that this will by some way be the biggest poll ever undertaken to find the nation’s top SF, fantasy and horror movies.

So what do you have to do? Simple. We want you to vote for your top five films, in any order. Below we’ve suggested 100 movies that could well be contenders for your affections – if your top five are there, just tick them. If NONE of these films are your ultimate choices then use the text box at the bottom of the poll to list the ones you want to add. You could also vote for one off the list and four of your own, or two from the list and three of your own, and so on.

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Apologies for this rather laborious way of doing things, but our polling software only allows for 100 different options (doh!), but rest assured we will be counting the “written” votes – we just entered 100 of what we thought may be the most popular (not reflecting our own opinions, of course) because that makes it easier for us to tot up the scores. But we will be taking our socks off to count the “written” votes on our fingers and toes.

If writing into the box at the bottom, please separate your film choices with commas, and try to get your spelling correct (that’ll make it easier for us to collate the results).

So please, check the list first to see if your faves are there, and then use the space at the bottom of the poll if necessary.

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The Abyss (1989)

The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn (2011)

AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Akira (1988)

Back To The Future II (1989)

Barbarella (1968)

Batman Returns (1992)

Battle Royale (2000)

Beauty And The Beast (1946)

Beauty And The Beast (1991)

Being John Malkovich (1999)

Big Fish (2003)

Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

Black Sunday (1960)

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977)

Cronos (1993)

The Crow (1994)

Dead Of Night (1945)

Delicatessen (1991)

The Devil Rides Out (1968)

Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde (1931)

Dr Strangelove; Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)

Don’t Look Now (1973)

Dracula (1958)

The Evil Dead (1980)

Eyes Without A Face (1960)

Fantasia (1940)

Faust (1926)

The Fountain (2006)

Frankenstein (1931)

Gattaca (1997)

Ghost In The Shell (1995)

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)

Godzilla (1954)

Goldfinger (1964)

The Green Mile (1999)

Gremlins (1984)

Groundhog Day (1993)

Harry Potter and The Goblet Of Fire (2005)

The Haunting (1963)

Hellraiser (1987)

How To Train Your Dragon (2010)

The Innocents (1961)

Interview With The Vampire (1994)

Invaders From Mars (1953)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

The Invisible Man (1933)

The Iron Giant (1999)

Iron Man (2008)

Island Of Lost Souls (1932)

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

King Kong (2006)

Kwaidan (1964)

The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)

Melancholia (2011)

Men In Black (1997)

The Mist (2007)

Monsters, Inc (2001)

Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)

Moon (2009)

My Neighbour Totoro (1988)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Paranormal Activity (2007)

Pi (1998)

Predator (1987)

The Princess Bride (1987)

Princess Mononoke (1997)

Quatermass 2

Scanners (1981)

Scott Pilgrim Versus The World (2010)

Scrooge (1951)

The Seventh Seal (1957)

Silent Running (1971)

The Skin I Live In (2011)

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Soylent Green (1972)

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Stalker (1979)

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return Of The Jedi (1983)

Starship Troopers (1997)

Superman 2 (1981)

Suspiria (1977)

Tetsuo (1989)

Them! (1954)

The Thing From Another World (1951)

Toy Story (1995)

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Tremors (1990)

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

28 Days Later (2002)

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)

Unbreakable (2000)

Up (2009)

V For Vendetta (2006)

Videodrome (1983)

Yellow Submarine (1968)

Young Frankenstein (1974)

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