I haven't been back to his topic in awhile, but here's another acclaimed classic for your midnight viewing, Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), a remarkably well-directed early science fiction classic, way ahead of its time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still
When I first read Alan Moore's WATCHMEN in the late 1980's, I still hadn't seen this movie. Although I was a huge fan of the 1963-1965 series THE OUTER LIMITS, and definitely appreciated Moore's reference in the story to the episode "The Architects of Fear".
