Unforgettable (1996)
Transplanted Memories Thriller
Thriller where Ray Liotta undergoes an experimental process to receive an injection of memories from his dead wife and from these sets out to try and solve her murder
Altered Memory
Altered Memory concerns works dealing with the manipulation, implantation and erasure of human memory. For works dealing with accidental or deliberately blanked memory see Films About Amnesia.
This concerns stories where people are given or find that they have artificially implanted memories; or where they discover that sections of their memory have been erased or altered in some way. A frequent story trope in SF is of someone who wakes up with a blank memory and sets out to find who they are.
There are also a number of SF films about devices that can allow the recording and playback of memory. Other SF works feature a plot about the transplant of another person’s memory whereupon the stories usually become thrillers about solving the other person’s murder.
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)
Super-Soldiers/Action/Identity Bender
Sixth entry in the series, this throws out all the themes the previous sequels operated by and feels like a Universal Soldier film written by Philip K. Dick with utterly fascinating results. John Hyams hits in with a brutal intensity that shows he is one of the most exciting up and coming action directors
Warning (2021)
Anthology of Future SF Tales
An anthology film that has been intended in the same vein as tv’s Black Mirror, offering a series of dark reflections of technological changes
Welcome to Blood City (1977)
Western Simulation in Virtual Reality
Clearly influenced by the original Westworld, this is an interesting film about people waking up inside a computer-simulated Western town. Without realising it, this was the very first film to depict Virtual Reality
Wifelike (2022)
Android Wives
This is like a version of The Stepford Wives updated to the era of Ex Machina and the modern A.I./android film
Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019)
Animation/DC Comics Superheroine
The second of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies made as a standalone entry for Wonder Woman, clearly building on the success of the Gal Gadot film
The Wretched (2019)
Body-Snatching Witch Next Door
The biggest box-office hit six weeks in a row in 2020, albeit during Corona lockdown. This gets some extremely creepy effects in that managed to work on a jaded viewer
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)
Comic-Book Superheroes
Despite the bad press surroundings this, I failed to find it as bad as other reviewers. It’s a solid if not standout entry in the series with some fine superheroic action sequences