Dune, 1984
 
Who hasn’t had the experience of chancing upon an unexpectedly empty passageway in a subway station or an airport and thinking, “Maaaan, they should really use this place for a sci-fi movie!”

I’ll bet you that Serafín Álvarez has experienced that feeling. He’s been running his blog Sci-Fi Corridor Archive since 2012, and in that time he has posted pictures of notable and not-so-notable corridors from a whopping 192 science fiction movies spanning the entire history of sound-enabled cinema (the earliest movie in the set is Yakov Protazanov’s Aelita, from 1924).

There really is something about corridors that seems to describe sci-fi in a way that wouldn’t be true of, say, westerns, gangster movies, gladiator movies, musicals, pirate epics, and hard-boiled crime flicks. Indeed, the image of a hermetically sealed passageway that clearly connects two other chambers floating precariously in space is very close to the heart of the sci-fi that we all know and love. 

In fact, I would argue that the witty 1999 classic Galaxy Quest was more or less commenting on this fact, seeing as how a good portion the scenes you probably remember best seem to take place in anonymous hallways.
 

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, 1977
 

2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
 

Alien, 1979
 

Flash Gordon, 1980
 

Solaris, 1972
 

Tron, 1982
 

The Fifth Element, 1997
 

Logan’s Run, 1976
 

THX-1138, 1971
 

Metropolis, 1927
 

Brazil, 1985
 

Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991
 

Blade Runner, 1982
 

Robocop, 1987
 

The Matrix, 1999
 

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977
 

Planet of the Apes, 1968
 

Inception, 2010
 

Star Trek: The Motion Picture, 1979
 

Galaxy Quest, 1999
 

Oh, what the hell, here’s another nice one from Galaxy Quest
 
via Coudal Partners
 

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