1: Iron Sky

Audiences, however, embraced it. Iron Sky became a midnight movie staple, a cosplay favorite at conventions, and a box office hit in Germany, Finland, and Australia. The film’s most quoted line—"I'm sorry, James, but I'm not the one who elected a Sarah Palin look-alike to the White House, or ruined the world economy, or re-elected George W. Bush. I'm just a Nazi."—captures its willingness to let everyone be the butt of the joke.

Instead, Washington discovers a hidden base on the dark side of the Moon: (Black Sun). This is the remnants of the Fourth Reich, a high-tech Nazi society that escaped Berlin in 1945 using advanced flying saucer technology. For 70 years, they have evolved in isolation, their ideology frozen in 1945 aesthetics but their science leaping centuries ahead. They speak a stylized, anachronistic German, ride hover-motorcycles, and operate a vast underground city powered by a mysterious energy source called "The Element." iron sky 1

In the pantheon of cult cinema, few films boast a premise as instantly, gloriously, and absurdly logline-able as Iron Sky . Released in 2012, the Finnish-German-Australian co-production posed a simple, outrageous question: What if the Nazis, having fled to the Moon in 1945, returned in 2018 to conquer Earth? Audiences, however, embraced it