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After destroying a giant asteroid heading towards Earth, a group of scientists unknowingly bring back a strange green substance that soon mutates into a monster.
My favourite space-themed sci-fi horror flicks - so any horror movie in SPACE or featuring ALIENS, or a combination of both. Focussing on the modern style of films in the genre, so anything from the late 60's onwards is fair game.
- Alien. David Giler, Gordon Carroll, Walter Hill. 1,598 votes. Alien follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo as they are awakened from cryogenic sleep by a distress call halfway through their interstellar journey.
- Aliens. Gale Anne Hurd. 1,324 votes. In the hotly-anticipated sequel to Alien, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is rescued by a deep space marine team. As they search LV-426, they discover only one survivor, a young girl named Newt (Carrie Henn).
- Event Horizon. Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Jeremy Bolt. 1,426 votes. This sci-fi follows the crew of a spaceship sent to investigate a lost spacecraft, the Event Horizon, that has suddenly reappeared after vanishing seven years ago.
- Pitch Black. Tom Engelman. 768 votes. Set in the future, on a distant unexplored planet, Pitch Black follows an escaped convict (Vin Diesel) and his crew of survivors as they battle against vicious creatures that are only visible in total darkness prolonged by an eclipse.
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- The Thing (1982) It’s hard to conceive that audiences dismissed John Carpenter’s The Thing in the summer of 1982 because the only alien they wanted was E.T.
- Alien (1979) Two short years after Star Wars amazed audiences, 20th Century Fox and director Ridley Scott terrified them with Alien — another groundbreaking science fiction classic.
- The Fly (1986) Leave it to director David Cronenberg to top the 1959 Vincent Price original with his sci-fi body horror classic, The Fly. This 1986 remake is, on a structural level, perfect.
- Aliens (1986) After decades in cryo-sleep, Ellen Ripley awakens to find herself once again squaring off against acid-bleeding xenomorphs. When a human colony — built on the site where Ripley first encountered the aliens — goes offline, The Company sends in the Colonial Marines and their power loaders, which Ripley is forced to commandeer in an edge-of-your-seat finale versus the Alien Queen.
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Planet Of The Vampires
Italian director Mario Bava, who would go on to claim his greatest fame in giallo horror movies, helmed this tale of two spaceships that land one shortly after the other on a remote planet named Aura, only to realize the planet harbors some parasitic life form that forces everyone who’s exposed to it to fight one another to death. Released in Italy asTerrore nello spazio (Terror in Space), the film went through fifteen working titles before American International Pictures decided on Planet of...
Alien
The most iconic of all the space horror movies as well as the most influential, Alien was produced in the late 1970s after the unexpected blockbuster success of Star Wars made Hollywood more receptive to films involving space travel. The plot involves members of a space crew who discover an abandoned spaceship and decide to explore inside, where they find a chamber containing thousands of eggs. When one of the team members approaches an egg, a parasite inside it attacks him. Hours later, in w...
Saturn 3
Legendary Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas stars as Major Adam, who along with his lover, a scientist named Alex (Farrah Fawcett) is stranded on a remote space station in the asteroid fields of Saturn when suddenly one day they are visited by a sociopathic and sexually deviant earthling named Captain Benson (Harvey Keitel), who arrives with an eight-foot-tall robot named Hector and soon sets his sexually predatory eyes on Alex. Saturn 3 was widely panned by critics and received three Golden Raspb...
Jason X
In 2008, Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th series is taken from a government facility in Camp Crystal Lake, cryogenically frozen, and transported into outer space in the year 2455 after the earth becomes uninhabitable. Immediately after he gets thawed out onboard, he begins stalking and killing the crew members of the spaceship that are transporting him between the dead planet Earth and a replacement planet known as Earth II. There’s quite a bit of extreme violence in this odd fusion of...
Sunshine
The film is set 35 years in the future, when the sun is dying, Earth is entering another Ice Age, and a group of international astronauts on a ship called Icarus II is sent on a mission to revive the dying sun with a nuclear fission bomb. The first Icarus had disappeared a few years earlier without a trace, but as Icarus II reaches the far side of Mercury, they start receiving distress signals from Icarus. When it becomes clear that Icarus II’s mission is doomed—or at least that everyone on t...
Pandorum
The term “pandorum” refers to a fictional condition that exists only in this movie. It is a psychotic break that takes place between ship’s captains when they get the sense that their mission is doomed, leading into a spiral of psychosis and paranoia. This film is set in 2174, when the planet’s resources have been depleted and a spaceship known as the Elysium has been launched toward the planet Tanis in the hopes that the last remnants of humanity can be preserved. En route, two crew members...
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May 26, 2022 · We’ve put together an expanded list of ten of the best space horror movies you should check out as soon as possible. Some are classics, some have been overlooked, and some even have a fair...
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A space probe is infiltrated by alien beings and then crashes on a remote Pacific atoll. A group of people discover it to be inhabited by giant mutant monsters, created by the aliens in an attempt to conquer the world.
