Best Space Horror Movies & Films Subgenre
Top 21 must-see best space horror movies from space horror movies, including Aliens, Alien, Sputnik, The Blob, Pitch Black, Alien: Covenant, Starship Troopers, Life, The Visitor, and Alien: Resurrection ranked and rated by score.
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Space Horror Movies List
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1). Aliens (1986) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 8.83/10 | IMDB Rating: 8.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 810,361 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.4/10 | Metascore: 8.4/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $85,160,248
Aliens is Streaming on HuluPlot / Synopsis: James Cameron returned to direct the sequel to his Alien (1979) film with this Aliens (1986) which added action and adventure to this installment. Aliens had an estimated movie budget of $18.5 million and grossed $85.2 million at the box office. Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, and Carrie Henn star in Aliens...
Director: James Cameron
Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen
2). Alien (1979) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Alien (1979) Review
Score: 8.59/10 | IMDB Rating: 8.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,018,233 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.3/10 | Metascore: 8.9/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $84,206,106
Alien is Streaming on HuluPlot / Synopsis: Director Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) struck the perfect balance between horror and sci-fi. The crew of a space merchant vessel receive a transmission thinking it a distress call, proceed to investigate. The crew is then attacked by the mysterious life-form via facehugger and the final form of the Alien. Alien had an estimated movie budget of $11 million and grossed...
Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt
3). Sputnik (2020) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 7.04/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 28,977 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.7/10 | Metascore: 6.1/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated | Gross: $18,853
Sputnik is Streaming on ShudderPlot / Synopsis: USSR, 1983. Soviet cosmonaut and hero Konstantin Veshnyakov brings an alien creature to earth - in his own body. In the secret laboratory of a closed city neurophysiologist Tatyana Klimova, while trying to save the cosmonaut from the monster, finds out that she feels much more than professional interest in her patient...
Director: Egor Abramenko
Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, Anna Nazarova, Aleksey Demidov
4). The Blob (1988) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Rotten Tomatoes: 6.9/10 | MPAA Rating: 0 | Gross: $8,247,943
Plot / Synopsis: A strange lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.Tagline: Man is no longer the supreme being on this planet...
Director: Chuck Russell
Stars: Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch Jr., Jeffrey DeMunn, Candy Clark
5). Pitch Black (2000) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 6.66/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 259,844 | Rotten Tomatoes: 5.9/10 | Metascore: 4.9/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $39,240,659
Pitch Black is Streaming on Netflix, PeacockPlot / Synopsis: A commercial transport ship and its crew are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that only come out to feast at night. But then, they learn that a month-long eclipse is about to occur.Tagline: Fight Evil With Evil...
Director: David Twohy
Stars: Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David, Lewis Fitz-Gerald
6). Alien: Covenant (2017) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Alien: Covenant (2017) Review
Score: 6.65/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 330,283 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.5/10 | Metascore: 6.5/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $74,262,031
Alien: Covenant is Streaming on HuluPlot / Synopsis: Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant (2017) was once titled Alien: Paradise Lost (2017) and I would not be surprised if it were changed again. Alien: Covenant releases far into 2017 so this is early news, but it is confirmed that this film will directly tie into events leading up to Alien (1979). Michael Fassbender has been confirmed to reprise his role...
Director: Ridley Scott
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir
7). Starship Troopers (1997) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 6.57/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 337,459 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.2/10 | Metascore: 5.2/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $54,814,377
Starship Troopers is Streaming on NetflixPlot / Synopsis: Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival.
Tagline: Genocide doesn't compare to this...
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Stars: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris
8). Life (2017) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
In-Depth Life Review
Score: 6.5/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 269,208 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.7/10 | Metascore: 5.4/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $30,234,022
Life is Streaming on Netflix, TubiPlot / Synopsis: Columbia Pictures is releasing Sony Pictures and Daniel Espinosa's Life (2017) new horror sci-fi thriller film in movie theaters on March 24, 2017. Not an Aliens type movie but still touches on the horror that what if we do discover new life on another planet and it is hostile. Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Olga Dihovichnaya, Ariyon Bakare, Hiroyuki Sanada, and...
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Olga Dykhovichnaya
9). The Visitor (1979) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 6.5/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 4,784 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.8/10 | Metascore: 6.5/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: John Huston stars as an intergalactic warrior who joins a cosmic Christ figure in battle against a demonic 8-year-old girl, and her pet hawk, while the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. Multi-dimensional warfare, pre-adolescent profanity and brutal avian attacks combine to transport the viewer to a state unlike anything they've experienced... somewhere between Hell and the...
Director: Giulio Paradisi
Stars: Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen, John Huston, Joanne Nail
10). Alien: Resurrection (1997) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Alien: Resurrection Horror Movie Review
Score: 5.98/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 282,367 | Rotten Tomatoes: 5.5/10 | Metascore: 6.2/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $47,795,658
Alien: Resurrection is Streaming on HuluPlot / Synopsis: Two centuries after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/alien hybrid clone who must continue her war against the aliens.Tagline: It's been more than 200 years...The beginning has just started...
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman, Gary Dourdan
11). Alien 3 (1992) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 5.72/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 341,005 | Rotten Tomatoes: 4.4/10 | Metascore: 5.9/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $55,473,545
Alien 3 is Streaming on HuluPlot / Synopsis: After her last encounter, Ripley crash-lands on Fiorina Fury 161, a maximum security prison. When a series of strange and deadly events occur shortly after her arrival, Ripley realizes that she brought along an unwelcome visitor.
Tagline: In 1979, we discovered in space no one can hear you scream. In 1992, we will discover, on Earth, EVERYONE can hear...
Director: David Fincher
Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover
12). Event Horizon (1997) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Our Take on Event Horizon (1997)
Score: 5.4/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 206,339 | Rotten Tomatoes: 3.5/10 | Metascore: 3.5/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $26,673,242
Event Horizon is Streaming on Netflix, TubiPlot / Synopsis: A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.Tagline: Infinite Space - Infinite Terror...
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard T. Jones
13). Pandorum (2009) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Exploring Pandorum – Full Review
Score: 5.07/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 164,697 | Rotten Tomatoes: 2.6/10 | Metascore: 2.8/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $10,330,853
Pandorum is Streaming on TubiPlot / Synopsis: Antibodies director Christian Alvart takes suspense into space with
this tale of two astronauts who realize that they aren't alone as they
drift into the darkest corners of our galaxy. Awakening in their
hyper-sleep chamber with no memory of who they are or what their
mission is, disoriented astronauts Lt. Payton (Dennis Quaid) and
Corporal Bower (Ben Foster) gradually surmise...
Director: Christian Alvart
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue, Cung Le
14). Slingshot (2024) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 4.9/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 10,013 | Rotten Tomatoes: 3.8/10 | Metascore: 5.2/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $735,738
Plot / Synopsis: An astronaut struggles to maintain his grip on reality aboard a possibly fatally compromised mission to Saturn's moon, Titan.
A psychological thriller starring Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne, SLINGSHOT follows an elite trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. As the team gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot maneuver that will either...
Director: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Tomer Capon, Tomer Capone, Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne, David Morrissey
15). The Dark Side of the Moon (1990) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 4.71/10 | IMDB Rating: 4.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 3,078 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies. One by one, the...
Director: D.J. Webster
Stars: Robert Sampson, Will Bledsoe, Joe Turkel, Camilla More, John Diehl
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