The film has been a significant influence on a recent generation of science fiction film directors and other visual media artists. In an interview, the Argentine director Nicolas Goldbart described "Phase IV" as having had a profound cinematic influence on him. In his science fiction film "Phase 7", "Phase IV" is playing on a television in the apartment of the protagonists. The writer/director Panos Cosmatos described "Phase IV" as having been a very significant influence on the look and feel of his science fiction film "Beyond the Black Rainbow".