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May 7, 2024 · Alex Garland’s crowning science-fiction accomplishment is Ex Machina, but since this is a sci-fi horror list, we’re talking about the still quite impressive Annihilation. Natalie Portman leads ...
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• Available on Fubo TV Before putting his own spin on The Invisible Man, writer and director Leigh Whannell stepped from the world of horror into science-fiction for a gleefully gory revenge story about a man who gives control of his body over to an advanced AI program that can turn him into an unstoppable killing machine. Upgradedoesn't skimp on t...
• Available on Pluto TV, IMDb TV, and Fubo TV Though it ostensibly appears to be a body horror movie based around characters being horribly killed by the sadistic traps in a highly advanced maze, Cube is a movie predominantly driven forward by its conversations and its dissection of various attitudes and personality types within society. The charac...
• Available on Tubi, Pluto TV, and Crackle Dinner parties make great settings for horror movies as it's a potentially uncomfortable situation that just about everybody has some experience with, bringing together an ideally interesting group of people with interpersonal dynamics that can shoot off in all kinds of directions. Coherence takes this ide...
• Available on Peacock Though veritably dripping in machismo action, Predator is a much smarter science-fiction movie than it's given credit for and has some similarly underrated stalking horror amongst the bloodier moments. RELATED: 10 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Predator The impotence of the muscle-bound supersoldier squad against the alien hun...
• Available on Peacock and Prime Video What is effectively a prequel story to Ridley Scott's iconic sci-fi horror movie Alien delves far more into the themes presented in the director's other infamous sci-fi film, Blade Runner. Prometheus incorporates more directly philosophical or religious ideas, like the relationship between creator and creation...
• Available on Showtime Vin Diesel’s most popular franchise will likely always be Fast & Furious, but the Riddick franchise also holds a special place in sci-fi fans' heartsthanks in large part to the enduring qualities of the first installment in the series of movies. Director David Twohy’s Pitch Blackfocuses on a space crew getting stranded on a ...
• Available on Peacock Before Guardians of the Galaxy made him one of the most famous directors working today, James Gunn wrote and directed Slither, an underrated monster movie about an alien parasite invading a small town. Slither acts brilliantly as a spiritual successor to Fred Dekker’s classic B-movie spoof Night of the Creeps,with copious hum...
• Available on Fubo TV Body horror pioneer David Cronenberg created one of the subgenre’s finest works with The Fly, the story of a scientist whose teleportation experiment transforms him into a human-fly hybrid. Jeff Goldblum is compelling in the lead role, while Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis’ makeup effects are delightfully disgusting. Ultimatel...
• Available for purchase on Prime Video Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is widely regarded to be the first science fiction story ever written, while James Whale’s film adaptation was one of the first horror movies ever made. It’s tough for the first of something to hold up after the decades of derivative knockoffs that follow. But 1931’s Frankensteinst...
• Available on HBO Max Scannersis most renowned for the iconic scene in which a man’s head is blown up by a telepath but that’s just the tip of the iceberg; the movie has so much more to offer in not just its outstanding practical effects, including an all-time great movie villain performance by Michael Ironside as Daryll Revok. The story of an evi...
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R | 85 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror. On his one thousandth birthday, an evil leprechaun selects the descendant of one of his slaves to have as his bride, leaving it up to the girl's boyfriend to save her. Director: Rodman Flender | Stars: Warwick Davis, Charlie Heath, Shevonne Durkin, Sandy Baron.
- Alien. Trapped in space with an apex predator hunting down and killing all the members aboard the USCSS Nostromo, Alien uses perfect pacing, unrelenting dread, and one of the most haunting and legendary alien creatures to give audiences an experience they won't ever forget.
- Aliens. Drastically different than its 1979 predecessor, Aliens opts to become more of an action sci-fi horror film, rather than a slow-burning horror film with sci-fi elements, and while such a drastic change could have been disastrous, in the hands of director James Cameron, it was sensational.
- The Thing. Not only one of the greatest science fiction horror films ever created, but arguably one of the best films of all time, John Carpenter's The Thing is a masterclass in suspense, dread, terror, and unease as a group of scientists are stranded in Antarctica while a monstrous Alien who can disguise itself as one of them is on the loose.
- Predator. With so many beloved lines, standout performances from Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the introduction of one of the most legendary aliens in the history of cinema, Predator hit all the right buttons to become one of the premier action sci-fi horror masterpieces.
- Aliens (1986) Lieutenant Ellen Ripley is the only survivor of a far-future alien attack on her ship, played by Sigourney Weaver in the film. When communications are lost with a human colony on the moon on which her crew first encountered the alien creatures, Ripley agrees to return to the site with a troop of Colonial Marines to investigate.
- Alien (1979) The crew of the commercial spacecraft Nostromo is returning home in the far future when they pick up a distress call from a distant moon.
- The Thing (1982) A scientific trip by an American to the Antarctic’s icy wastes is disrupted by a bunch of obviously insane Norwegians following and shooting a dog.
- Slither (2006) A blazing meteorite crashes from the depths of infinite space into the dark woods of the peaceful hamlet of Wheels, South Carolina. As the charred rock reveals its hidden content—a heinous parasitic organism—a stealthy extraterrestrial invasion begins, with Grant, the town’s unlucky first victim.
Aug 31, 2023 · 2 'Nope' (2022) Jordan Peele 's 2022 horror sci-fi Nope is a modern classic in the making. Academy Award winner Daniel Kaluuya joins Keke Palmer as OJ and Em Haywood, two siblings attempting to ...
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Sep 30, 2023 · The Cabin in the Woods is a 2011 film that offers a more comedic take on the science-fiction horror genre. The plot starts with five friends going to a remote cabin for a brief vacation.
